Lessons from Iraq : avoiding the next war /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Pemberton, Miriam, Hartung, William D.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]
Subjects:	Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Causes. United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009. Political corruption > United States. Iraq > Colonization. Mercenary troops > Iraq. Torture > Iraq.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Miriam Pemberton
Prologue / Anas Shallal
Purposes. The dangerous leap : preventive war / Neta C. Crawford
American imperialism : enabler of war / Chalmers Johnson
Ideas floating free : war as demonstration model / Frances FitzGerald
A motive hiding in plain sight : war for oil / Michael T. Klare
To avoid future Iraq-style quagmires, reduce U.S. global military presence / Ivan Eland
Ways and means. Hidden wounds and accounting tricks : disguising the true costs / Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
Lies, spies, and legends : the politicizing of intelligence / John Prados
Media frontiers on the path to war / Norman Solomon
America's slide : from leadership to isolation / Jeffrey Laurenti
Inspections or invasion : lessons from Iraq / Hans Blix
Coalition of the coerced / Phyllis Bennis
Collateral damage. Monarchic pretensions : the war power grab / Fred Barbash
Torture no more / Aziz Huq
The shadow army : privatization / Janine R. Wedel
Invitation to steal : war profiteering in Iraq / William D. Hartung
The (Iraq) war on civil liberties / Jules Lobel
Epilogue : war for peace / C.K. Williams.