A long-term intelligence expert reveals the full, behind-the-scenes story of how and why sanctions and diplomacy in Iraq were doomed to fail.
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A long-term intelligence expert reveals the full, behind-the-scenes story of how and why sanctions and diplomacy in Iraq were doomed to fail.
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Charles Duelfer was active in the CIA throughout the Bush presidencies and between. He specialized in WMD inspections in Iraq. Probably nobody is more credible whose thoughts we can access.
In 'Hide and Seek' Duelfer candidly shares his experiences -- the good, the bad, and the ugly -- as one of the few privy to insider thinking in Washington AND Baghdad during the years leading up to the 2003 invasion.
The leftist chant "Bush Lied, People Died" is shown for the canard it obviously was. More interesting to me was his analysis of what went wrong in the immediate post-invasion occupation.
The Iraqi hope, and Bush's idea, was to peel off the worst gangsters at the top of the Baathist regime and let the rest of the country alone. This idea was subverted, in Duelfer's account, by the Secretary of Defense, who succeeded in making an enemy out of everybody in Iraq that owned a gun.
At least, however, Bush was negligent in not stomping out rebellion in Rumsfeld, whom he must have seen as a kind of uncle. Condi doesn't come off well either in this account. But Cheney, whom some love to hate, was never "Bush's brain".
I think anybody who presumes to have an opinion on the Iraq war should read this book.
