The Secret History of the Iraq War

by Yossef Bodansky

In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months after the president declared an end to major combat operations, Saddam Hussein was captured in a farmhouse in Al-Dawr. And yet neither peace nor democracy has taken hold in Iraq; instead the country has plunged into terrorist insurgency and guerrilla warfare, with no end in sight.What went wrong? In The Secret History of the Iraq War , bestselling author Yossef Bodansky offers an astonishing new account of the war and its aftermath—a war that was doomed from the start, he argues, by the massive and systemic failures of the American intelligence community. Drawing back the curtain of politicized debate, Bodansky—a longtime expert and director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare—reveals that nearly every aspect of America's conflict with Iraq has been misunderstood, in both the court of public opinion and the White House itself. Among his





Drawing upon an extraordinary wealth of previously untapped intelligence and regional sources, The Secret History of the Iraq War presents the most detailed, fascinating, and convincing account of the most controversial war of our times—and offers a sobering indictment of an intelligence system that failed the White House, the American military, and the people of the Middle East.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, War

576 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2004

Reviews

[Sean McClintock · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book does throw a lot of information at you that may make it confusing if you're not familiar with the Iraq War. Much of the book goes into the behind the scences planning and organizing that Suddam Hussain did to make the invasion of Iraq a prolonged effort for the United States. Much of this includes encouraging irregular fighters to continue to resist the US occupation of Iraq. Also, the book discusses the confusing and poorly organized efforts of the United States to make alliances in the Middle East to help with their invasion. As you will read, the US had mixed results with this. Overall, this book is very informational and may create a new perspective on the Iraq War for you, but it wasn't a very entertaining book to read.

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating read...we were doomed from the start as they say.