Lessons from Iraq
Subtitle: avoiding the next war
By: edited by Miriam Pemberton and William D. Hartung.
Contributors: Pemberton, Miriam, 1952-; Hartung, William D.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781594514982; 9781594514999
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003- -- Causes; Political corruption -- United States; Mercenary troops -- Iraq; Torture -- Iraq; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-; Iraq -- Colonization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Miriam Pemberton; title: Prologue / Anas Shallal; title: Purposes. The dangerous leap : preventive war / Neta C. Crawford; title: American imperialism : enabler of war / Chalmers Johnson; title: Ideas floating free : war as demonstration model / Frances FitzGerald; title: A motive hiding in plain sight : war for oil / Michael T. Klare; title: To avoid future Iraq-style quagmires, reduce U.S. global military presence / Ivan Eland; title: Ways and means. Hidden wounds and accounting tricks : disguising the true costs / Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes; title: Lies, spies, and legends : the politicizing of intelligence / John Prados; title: Media frontiers on the path to war / Norman Solomon; title: America's slide : from leadership to isolation / Jeffrey Laurenti; title: Inspections or invasion : lessons from Iraq / Hans Blix; title: Coalition of the coerced / Phyllis Bennis; title: Collateral damage. Monarchic pretensions : the war power grab / Fred Barbash; title: Torture no more / Aziz Huq; title: The shadow army : privatization / Janine R. Wedel; title: Invitation to steal : war profiteering in Iraq / William D. Hartung; title: The (Iraq) war on civil liberties / Jules Lobel; title: Epilogue : war for peace / C.K. Williams.