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Introduction and Acknowledgments

PART ONE SINS OF THE FATHERS

ONE Roots of Conflict: 1915-1989

Imperial Legacy
Phillip Knightley

The Rise of Saddam Hussein
Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroie

What Washington Gave Saddam for Christmas
Murray Waas

The Men Who Helped the Man Who Gassed His Own People
Joost R. Hiltermann

TWO The First Gulf War

Realpolitik in the Gulf: A Game Gone Tilt
Christopher Hitchens

U.S. Senators Chat with Saddam

The Glaspie Transcript: Saddam Meets the U.S. Ambassador

The Experts Speak on the Coming Gulf War
edited by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky

How Saddam Misread the United States
Kenneth Pollack

PART TWO AFTERMATHS OF THE GULF WAR

THREE Saddam Survives

"We Have Saddam Hussein Still Here"
Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn

Why We Didn't Go to Baghdad
George Bush and Brent Scowcroft

Why the Uprisings Failed
Faleh A. Jabar

How Saddam Held On to Power
Kanan Makiya

FOUR Casualties of War

What Bodies?
Patrick J. Sloyan

Remember Nayirah, Witness for Kuwait?
John R. MacArthur

"Thank God for the Patriot Missile!"
edited by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky

Did Iraq Try to Assassinate ex-President Bush in 1993?

A Case Not Closed
Seymour M. Hersh

FIVE Sanctions and Inspections

A Backgrounder on Inspections and Sanctions
Sarah Graham-Brown and Chris Toensing

The Inspections and the U.N.: The Blackest of Comedies
Richard Butler

The Hijacking of UNSCOM
Susan Wright

Behind the Scenes with the Iraqi Nuclear Bomb
Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein

SIX New Storms Brewing

An Open Letter to President Clinton: "Remove Saddam from Power"
Project for the New American Century

Statement: Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front

Televised Address to the Nation: "The Costs of Action Must be Weighed Against the Price of Inaction"
President Bill Clinton

PART THREE WAR WITH IRAQ

SEVEN The Impact of September 11th

Reflections on September 11th
Susan Sontag

Voices of Moral Obtuseness
Charles Krauthammer

Against the War Metaphor
Hendrik Hertzberg

An Open Letter to President Bush: "Lead the World to Victory"
Project for the New American Century

A Year Later: What the Right and Left Haven't Learned
Marc Cooper

Better Safe Than Sorry
Mona Charen

The Enemy Within
Daniel Pipes

"First They Came for the Muslims..."
Anthony Lewis

Not the War We Needed
Barbara Ehrenreich

EIGHT The Bush Doctrine

What to Do About Iraq
Robert Kagan and William Kristol

State of the Union Speech: The Axis of Evil
President George W. Bush

The Next World Order
Nicholas Lemann

No Meeting in Prague
Robert Novak

Remarks at West Point: "New Threats Require New Thinking"
President George W. Bush

The New Bush Doctrine
Richard Falk

Inside the Secret War Council
Mark Thompson

NINE The Country Debates Going to War

War on What? The White House and the Debate About Whom to Fight Next
Nicholas Lemann

Don't Attack Saddam
Brent Scowcroft

Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "The Risks of Inaction Are Far Greater Than the Risk of Action"
Vice President Dick Cheney

Drain the Swamp and There Will Be No More Mosquitoes
Noam Chomsky

Questions That Won't Be Asked About Iraq
Congressman Ron Paul

The War Party's Imperial Plans
Pat Buchanan

Speech to the UN General Assembly: "I Stand Before You Today a Multilaterialist"
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan

Speech to the UN General Assembly: "A Grave and Gathering Danger..."
President George W. Bush

Peace Puzzle
Michael Berube

Stuck to the U.N. Tar Baby
George Will

Against a Doctrine of Pre-emptive War
Former Vice President Al Gore

Why We Hate Them
Ann Coulter

What's Missing in the Iraq Debate
Peggy Noonan

Wars Are Never Fought for Altruistic Reasons
Arundhati Roy

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Proof!
Arianna Huffington

The President's Real Goal in Iraq
Jay Bookman

The Imperialism Canard
Andrew Sullivan

TEN The Debate in Congress

Of Pre-emption and Appeasement, Box-Cutters and Liquid Gold: Excerpts from the October 10, 2002 House Debate
Representatives Charles Rangel, Howard Berman, Dennis Kucinich, Nancy Pelosi, Tom DeLay, Richard Gephardt

Letter to Senator Bob Graham
CIA Director George Tenet

Iraq's Disarmament is Impossible Without Regime Change
Senator John McCain

No Place for Kings in America
Senator Robert C. Byrd

Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq
Resolution of 2002

ELEVEN Regime Change: Why and Why Not

Two Faces, One Terror
Fouad Ajami

Deciphering the Bush Administration's Motives
Michael T. Klare

Can We Really Deter a Nuclear-Armed Saddam?
Kenneth Pollack

Why SaddamWants Weapons of Mass Destruction
Charles A. Duelfer

An Unnecessary War
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

Suicide from Fear of Death?
Richard K. Betts

Bring Back the Draft
Representative Charles B. Rangel

The United States Has Gone Mad
John le Carré

Why I Am for Regime Change
Christopher Hitchens

An Unacceptable Helplessness
Edward Said

Why We Know Iraq Is Lying
Condoleezza Rice

I'm Losing Patience with My Neighbors, Mr. Bush
Terry Jones

TWELVE Last Dance at the U.N.

A Case for Concern, Not a Case for War
Glen Rangwala, Nathaniel Hurd and Alistair Millar

Iraq Has No Interest in War
Saddam Hussein (Interview with Tony Benn)

Presentation to the UN Security Council: A Threat to International Peace and Security
Secretary of State Colin Powell

MI6 and CIA: The New Enemy Within
Paul Lashmar and Raymond Whitaker

"Sleepwalking Through History"
Senator Robert Byrd

The Second Superpower
Micah L. Sifry

The Yes-But Parade
William Safire

Hawks Have My Head, Doves Have My Heart, Guess Which Wins?
Ian McEwan

Promises Abroad, While at Home Promises Go Forgotten
Derrick Jackson

The Long Bomb
Thomas L. Friedman

U.S.-British Draft Resolution On Iraq

Iraq's Disarmament Can Be Achieved By Peaceful Means
(The Foreign Ministers of France, Russia, and Germany)

The War Begins: "The Tyrant Will Soon Be Gone"
President George W. Bush

Pre-emptive Defeat, or How Not to Fight Proliferation
Jonathan Schell

PART FOUR THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

THIRTEEN The Future of Iraq

Iraq: The Imperial Precedent
Charles Tripp

The Fifty-first State?
James Fallows

Speech at the American Enterprise Institute: "Iraq Is Fully Capable of Living in Freedom"
President George W. Bush

The Post-Saddam Problem
Dilip Hiro

Saddam's Real Opponents
Frank Smyth

In Iraqi Kurdistan
Tim Judah

Post-Saddam Iraq: Linchpin of a New Oil Order
Michael Renner

Our Hopes Betrayed: The U.S. Blueprint for Post-Saddam Government
Kanan Makiya

FOURTEEN The Future of Pax Americana

The Unipolar Moment Revisited: America, the Benevolent Empire
Charles Krauthammer

America's Mission, After Baghdad
Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol 608

America's Dreams of Empire
Pervez Hoodbhoy

Catastrophe as the Generator of Historical Change: The Iraq Case
Richard Butler

Regime Change
Lewis H. Lapham

Hegemony, Hubris and Overreach
Kevin Phillips

Appendixes

1. Key U.N. Resolutions

2. A Who's Who of the Iraqi Opposition
Permissions Acknowledgments

Index

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