Genre: Government & Politics
Paperback: 222 pages

Description: Critical essays on The Iraq War, a war with Dick Cheney's fingerprints all over it. A collection of political opinions, starting well before the war and focusing on its consequences.

Synopsis:

There's been an incessant complaint on the part of the Bush administration, that the pitfalls of war in Iraq 'could not have been known'. Wrong. Many of us knew. Ordinary citizens, who perhaps kept more closely in touch with what was going on in the world outside America, but ordinary in any event. We were not privy to insider information, but not hampered either by predilections left over from earlier, failed administrations. George Bush was said to be haunted by his fathers failure to 'go all the way' in the first Iraq War - Desert Storm. Joined (some say overpowered) by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in planning a response to the 9-11 attacks on America, the very highest positions of our government were given-over to paranoia and special-interest. Rushing to judgment, unwilling to listen to opposed points of view, temporarily empowered by control of both houses of Congress and seizing upon what had been delivered to them by a terrorist plot, a small cadre of powerful men, clustered around the president, essentially hijacked representative government. The Iraq War is but one element of that hijacking, but perhaps its most public face. This was, and continues to be, a war with Dick Cheneys fingerprints all over it.

Product Details:

· Paperback: 222 pages
· Binding: Perfect
· Publisher: Cafepress (December 2006)
· Product Number: 030-94261516