Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Dci on Iraq's Wmd

By Duelfer, Charles

Book Id: WPLBN0000699950
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Dci on Iraq's Wmd
Author:	Duelfer, Charles
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Asian literature, Writing.
Collections:	Asian Literature Collection, e-Asia Digital Library Collection
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Publisher:	University of Oregon Libraries; E-Asia Digital Library


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Excerpt
Excerpt: INTRODUCTION; Iraq has endured decades of collapsing hopes and accumulating tragedy. It is numbing to consider the waste of so much human and resource potential. Saddam?s ambitions conflicted with the region and the international community. True to his name, he too often chose confrontation over cooperation. Ultimately these decisions led to total collapse. Weapons of Mass Destruction (W.M.D.) were an integral element in the range of tools Saddam drew upon to advance his ambitions. W.M.D. was not an end in itself. Therefore, to examine meaningfully W.M.D. in Iraq means examining the leadership of Iraq concomitantly. The Iraq experience with W.M.D. stretches over 30 years and three wars. Thousands of victims died on battlefields, and civilians have been gassed in domestic terror campaigns. War and sanctions have ground civil society down to rudimentary levels. The most talented of Iraq have faced excruciating dilemmas--to comply with the Regime?s directions or risk careers, their lives, and the lives of loved ones. Chronic, systemic fear on the part of the best and the brightest was a feature of the intellectual elite.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Key Findings, 1 -- Who Made Iraq?s Strategic Decisions and Determined WMD Policy, 5 -- Saddam?s Place in the Regime, 5 -- The Apex of Power, 5 -- Personalized Rule, 5 -- Saddam?s Unsettled Lieutenants, 5 -- A Few Key Players in an Insular Environment, 7 -- Saddam Calls the Shots, 8 -- Saddam Shows the Way, 9 -- Harvesting Ideas and Advice in a Byzantine Setting, 10 -- Weaving a Culture of Lies, 11 -- Saddam Became Increasingly Inaccessible, 11 -- Saddam?s Command by Violence, 12 -- Saddam?s Effect on the Workings of the Iraqi Government, 13 -- Suspicion of Structures, 13 -- Powerless Structures, 13 -- The Higher Committee, 14 -- The Foreign Policy Committees, 15 -- Saddam?s Grip on National Security and WMD Development, 16 -- Saddam Holding Court, 18 -- Saddam and Fiscal Policy, 18 -- How Saddam Saw His Subordinates, 19 -- Mining Respect and Expertise, 19 -- Mutuality of Fear, 19 -- Dazzled by Science, 19 -- How Saddam Saw Himself, 21 -- Saddam?s Psychology, 21 -- Saddam?s Personal Security, 21 -- Saddam the Dynasty Founder, 21 -- Saddam and His Sense of Legacy, 22