BOOK REVIEW: 'Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq' WashTimesOpEd
According to the conservative estimates of the Costs of War Project at Brown University, the invasion, occupation, and ensuing Sunni-Shia civil war killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, displaced millions, and will cost the U.S. Treasury something like $3 trillion. Iraq today is a corrupt kleptocracy.
Mr. Leffler concludes that the decision to invade was not born from ideological bombast or missionary zeal about spreading democracy. Neither was it primarily the result of naivete, sheer stupidity, incompetence, or outright lies. The Bush administration, U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies, members of both parties in Congress, and much of the mainstream press truly believed Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. Rather, Mr.
Mr. Leffler may give the Bush team too much benefit of the doubt. In dozens of press conferences, speeches, and televised interviews, top administration figures such as Vice President Dick Cheney expressed “no doubt” about Saddam’s arsenal. But the record shows — as Mr. Leffler himself makes clear — that few officials were privately certain of the accuracy of the intelligence.
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