Table of Contents:
  • Oil and Persian Gulf security : the context of regime termination
  • Containment-plus : Clinton and Iraq at the end of the 1990s
  • Containment under pressure : opposition from Congress and conservative think-tanks
  • Rethinking Iraq : a new president and new foreign policy
  • September 11 and Iraq
  • Constructing the case : from the "axis of evil" to the United Nations
  • From the United Nations to war
  • Unqualified support : Congress and war with Iraq
  • Finding the evidence
  • The neo-conservative worldview
  • Conclusion : an endless road?