Lessons from Iraq : avoiding the next war / edited by Miriam Pemberton, William D. Hartung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pemberton, Miriam.

Hartung, William D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Causes.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Mercenary troops.

Colonization.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

United States.

Politics and government.

Political corruption--United States.

Political corruption.

Iraq--Colonization.

Iraq.

Mercenary troops--Iraq.

Torture--Iraq.

Torture.

Physical Description:

vi, 149 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction / Miriam Pemberton

Prologue / Anas Shallal

Purposes. The dangerous leap : preventive war / Neta C. Crawford

American imperialism : enabler of war / Chalmers Johnson

Ideas floating free : war as demonstration model / Frances FitzGerald

A motive hiding in plain sight : war for oil / Michael T. Klare

To avoid future Iraq-style quagmires, reduce U.S. global military presence / Ivan Eland

Ways and means. Hidden wounds and accounting tricks : disguising the true costs / Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes

Lies, spies, and legends : the politicizing of intelligence / John Prados

Media frontiers on the path to war / Norman Solomon

America's slide : from leadership to isolation / Jeffrey Laurenti

Inspections or invasion : lessons from Iraq / Hans Blix

Coalition of the coerced / Phyllis Bennis

Collateral damage. Monarchic pretensions : the war power grab / Fred Barbash

Torture no more / Aziz Huq

The shadow army : privatization / Janine R. Wedel

Invitation to steal : war profiteering in Iraq / William D. Hartung

The (Iraq) war on civil liberties / Jules Lobel

Epilogue : war for peace / C.K. Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594514982

1594514984

9781594514999

1594514992

OCLC:

180989644