Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn
"The idea of direct invasion is the greatest threat to Saddam. It avoids the problems of securing local allies, inside and outside Iraq, which bedevil any indirect approach to get rid of him. But it has one immense disadvantage from the US point of view ... if the US invades Iraq to install its own government it will be taking direct physical control of an area containing more than half the world's oil reserves. It will look like the founding of a new American empire based on physical force and will be deeply resented ... It would outrage the Arabs at a moment when the Israel-Palestine conflict is in a particularly bloody phase. America could find that it has overplayed its hand, just as Saddam did when he invaded Kuwait twelve years ago."-From the new Prologue At the outset of the 1991 Gulf War, US leaders resolved the 'Iraqis will pay the price', so long as Saddam Hussein remained in power. This book makes chillingly clear just how terrible that price has been. Eleven years ago Saddam was caught by surprise; his preparations since September 11 show that lessons have been learnt. In a substantial new prologue the authors analyse these preparations and the terrifying consequences of a military invasion of Iraq.
Andrew Cockburn is a writer and lecturer on defense and national affairs, and is also the author of several nonfiction books. He has written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Playboy, Vanity Fair, and National Geographic, among others. He currently lives in Washington, DC. Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent of Independent, has been visiting Iraq since 1978. He was awarded the 2005 Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting. He is the author of The Broken Boy, a memoir, and, with Andrew Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781859847992 |
| ISBN 10 | 1859847994 |
| Title | Saddam Hussein |
| Author | Andrew Cockburn |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2000-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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