The Iraq Papers
Edição da Oxford University Press, USA,
$9,95 em paperback
$9,95 em paperback
Apresentação do editor: «No foreign policy decision in recent history has had greater
repercussions than President George W. Bush's decision to invade and
occupy Iraq. It launched a new doctrine of preemptive war, mired the
American military in an intractable armed conflict, disrupted world
petroleum supplies, cost the United States hundreds of billions of
dollars, and damaged or ended the lives of hundreds of thousands of
Americans and Iraqis. Its impact on international politics and America's
standing in the world remains incalculable. The Iraq Papers offers a compelling documentary narrative and interpretation of this
momentous conflict. With keen editing and incisive commentary, the book
weaves together original documents that range from presidential
addresses to redacted memos, carrying us from the ideology behind the
invasion to negotiations for withdrawal. These papers trace the rise of
the neoconservatives and reveal the role of strategic thinking about oil
supplies. In moving to the planning for the war itself, the authors not
only provide Congressional resolutions and speeches by President Bush,
but internal security papers, Pentagon planning documents, the report of
the Future of Iraq Project, and eloquent opposition statements by
Senator Robert Byrd, other world governments, the Non-Aligned Movement,
and the World Council of Churches. This collection addresses every
aspect of the conflict, from the military's evolving counterinsurgency
strategy to declarations by Iraqi resisters and political figures-from
Coalition Provisional Authority orders to Donald Rumsfeld's dismissal of
the insurgents as "dead-enders" and Iraqi discussions of state- and
nationbuilding under the shadow of occupation. The economics of
petroleum, the legal and ethical questions surrounding terrorism and
torture, international agreements, the theory of the "unitary
presidency," and the Bush administration's use of presidential signing
statements all receive in-depth coverage.The Iraq War has reshaped the domestic and international landscape. The Iraq Papers offers the authoritative one-volume source for understanding the conflict and its many repercussions.»
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