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Tables of Contents for The Iraq War Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction and Acknowledgments
ix
PART ONE SINS OF THE FATHERS
Roots of Conflict: 1915--1989
3
42
Imperial Legacy
5
13
Phillip Knightley
The Rise of Saddam Hussein
18
12
Judith Miller
Laurie Mylroie
What Washington Gave Saddam for Christmas
30
11
Murray Waas
The Men Who Helped the Man Who Gassed His Own People
41
4
Joost R. Hiltermann
The First Gulf War
45
44
Realpolitik in the Gulf: A Game Gone Tilt
47
11
Christopher Hitchens
U.S. Senators Chat with Saddam
58
3
The Glaspie Transcript: Saddam Meets the U.S. Ambassador
61
11
The Experts Speak on the Coming Gulf War
72
4
Christopher Cerf
Victor Navasky
How Saddam Misread the United States
76
13
Kenneth Pollack
PART TWO AFTERMATHS OF THE GULF WAR
Saddam Survives
89
38
``We Have Saddam Hussein Still Here''
91
10
Andrew Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn
Why We Didn't Go to Baghdad
101
2
George Bush
Brent Scowcroft
Why the Uprisings Failed
103
11
Faleh A. Jabar
How Saddam Held On to Power
114
13
Kanan Makiya
Casualties of War
127
36
What Bodies?
129
6
Patrick J. Sloyan
Remember Nayirah, Witness for Kuwait?
135
3
John R. MacArthur
``Thank God for the Patriot Missile!''
138
2
Christopher Cerf
Victor Navasky
Did Iraq Try to Assassinate ex-President Bush in 1993? A Case Not Closed
140
23
Seymour M. Hersh
Sanctions and Inspections
163
34
A Backgrounder on Inspections and Sanctions
165
9
Sarah Graham-Brown
Chris Toensing
The Inspections and the U.N.: The Blackest of Comedies
174
12
Richard Butler
The Hijacking of UNSCOM
186
5
Susan Wright
Behind the Scenes with the Iraqi Nuclear Bomb
191
6
Khidhir Hamza
Jeff Stein
New Storms Brewing
197
16
An Open Letter to President Clinton: ``Remove Saddam from Power''
199
3
Statement: Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
202
3
Televised Address to the Nation: ``The Costs of Action Must be Weighed Against the Price of Inaction''
205
8
President Bill Clinton
PART THREE WAR WITH IRAQ
The Impact of September 11th
213
28
Reflections on September 11th
215
2
Susan Sontag
Voices of Moral Obtuseness
217
2
Charles Krauthammer
Against the War Metaphor
219
3
Hendrik Hertzberg
An Open Letter to President Bush: ``Lead the World to Victory''
222
3
A Year Later: What the Right and Left Haven't Learned
225
4
Marc Cooper
Better Safe Than Sorry
229
2
Mona Charen
The Enemy Within
231
2
Daniel Pipes
``First They Came for the Muslims . . .''
233
5
Anthony Lewis
Not the War We Needed
238
3
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Bush Doctrine
241
40
What to Do About Iraq
243
7
Robert Kagan
William Kristol
State of the Union Speech: The Axis of Evil
250
3
President George W. Bush
The Next World Order
253
13
Nicholas Lemann
No Meeting in Prague
266
2
Robert Novak
Remarks at West Point: ``New Threats Require New Thinking''
268
4
President George W. Bush
The New Bush Doctrine
272
6
Richard Falk
Inside the Secret War Council
278
3
Mark Thompson
The Country Debates Going to War
281
76
War on What? The White House and the Debate About Whom to Fight Next
283
12
Nicholas Lemann
Don't Attack Saddam
295
3
Brent Scowcroft
Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars: ``The Risks of Inaction Are Far Greater Than the Risk of Action''
298
3
Vice President Dick Cheney
Drain the Swamp and There Will Be No More Mosquitoes
301
3
Noam Chomsky
Questions That Won't Be Asked About Iraq
304
3
Congressman Ron Paul
The War Party's Imperial Plans
307
2
Pat Buchanan
Speech to the UN General Assembly: ``I Stand Before You Today a Multilaterialist''
309
4
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan
Speech to the UN General Assembly: ``A Grave and Gathering Danger . . .''
313
6
President George W. Bush
Peace Puzzle
319
4
Michael Berube
Stuck to the U.N. Tar Baby
323
2
George Will
Against a Doctrine of Pre-emptive War
325
8
Former Vice President Al Gore
Why We Hate Them
333
3
Ann Coulter
What's Missing in the Iraq Debate
336
3
Peggy Noonan
Wars Are Never Fought for Altruistic Reasons
339
5
Arundhati Roy
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Proof!
344
3
Arianna Huffington
The President's Real Goal in Iraq
347
6
Jay Bookman
The Imperialism Canard
353
4
Andrew Sullivan
The Debate in Congress
357
28
Of Pre-emption and Appeasement, Box-Cutters and Liquid Gold: Excerpts from the October 10, 2002 House Debate
359
8
Charles Rangel
Howard Berman
Dennis Kucinich
Nancy Pelosi
Tom DeLay
Richard Gephardt
Letter to Senator Bob Graham
367
3
CIA Director George Tenet
Iraq's Disarmament is Impossible Without Regime Change
370
5
Senator John McCain
No Place for Kings in America
375
3
Senator Robert C. Byrd
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
378
7
Regime Change: Why and Why Not
385
70
Two Faces, One Terror
387
5
Fouad Ajami
Deciphering the Bush Administration's Motives
392
11
Michael T. Klare
Can We Really Deter a Nuclear-Armed Saddam?
403
9
Kenneth Pollack
Why Saddam Wants Weapons of Mass Destruction
412
2
Charles A. Duelfer
An Unnecessary War
414
11
John J. Mearsheimer
Stephen M. Walt
Suicide from Fear of Death?
425
9
Richard K. Betts
Bring Back the Draft
434
2
Charles B. Rangel
The United States Has Gone Mad
436
4
John le Carre
Why I Am for Regime Change
440
5
Christopher Hitchens
An Unacceptable Helplessness
445
5
Edward Said
Why We Know Iraq Is Lying
450
3
Condoleezza Rice
I'm Losing Patience with My Neighbors, Mr. Bush
453
2
Terry Jones
Last Dance at the U.N.
455
74
A Case for Concern, Not a Case for War
457
7
Glen Rangwala
Nathaniel Hurd
Alistair Millar
Iraq Has No Interest in War
464
1
Saddam Hussein
Tony Benn
Presentation to the UN Security Council: A Threat to International Peace and Security
465
14
Secretary of State Colin Powell
MI6 and CIA: The New Enemy Within
479
3
Paul Lashmar
Raymond Whitaker
``Sleepwalking Through History''
482
4
Senator Robert Byrd
The Second Superpower
486
4
Micah L. Sifry
The Yes-But Parade
490
2
William Safire
Hawks Have My Head, Doves Have My Heart, Guess Which Wins?
492
3
Ian McEwan
Promises Abroad, While at Home Promises Go Forgotten
495
2
Derrick Jackson
The Long Bomb
497
2
Thomas L. Friedman
U.S.-British Draft Resolution On Iraq
499
2
Iraq's Disarmament Can Be Achieved By Peaceful Means
501
2
The War Begins: ``The Tyrant Will Soon Be Gone''
503
3
President George W. Bush
Pre-emptive Defeat, or How Not to Fight Proliferation
506
23
Jonathan Schell
PART FOUR THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
The Future of Iraq
529
62
Iraq: The Imperial Precedent
531
4
Charles Tripp
The Fifty-first State?
535
22
James Fallows
Speech at the American Enterprise Institute: ``Iraq Is Fully Capable of Living in Freedom''
557
3
President George W. Bush
The Post-Saddam Problem
560
5
Dilip Hiro
Saddam's Real Opponents
565
3
Frank Smyth
In Iraqi Kurdistan
568
12
Tim Judah
Post-Saddam Iraq: Linchpin of a New Oil Order
580
8
Michael Renner
Our Hopes Betrayed: The U.S. Blueprint for Post-Saddam Government
588
3
Kanan Makiya
The Future of Pax Americana
591
48
The Unipolar Moment Revisited: America, the Benevolent Empire
593
15
Charles Krauthammer
America's Mission, After Baghdad
608
6
Lawrence F. Kaplan
William Kristol
America's Dreams of Empire
614
4
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Catastrophe as the Generator of Historical Change: The Iraq Case
618
7
Richard Butler
Regime Change
625
8
Lewis H. Lapham
Hegemony, Hubris and Overreach
633
6
Kevin Phillips
Appendixes
639
32
1. Key U.N. Resolutions
641
12
2. A Who's Who of the Iraqi Opposition
653
18
Permissions Acknowledgments
671
6
Index
677
39
About the Editors
716