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1999. Neocon Book,
Why Removing Saddam Matters to U.S./Israel |
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Wurmser Publishes Book Advocating Iraqi Regime Change
Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein, 3/1/1999
"Iraq's strategic importance to the US derives from a source beyond the pernicious, extortionist character of Saddam's regime. Iraq occupies some of the most strategically blessed and resource-laden territory of the middle east. ... Iraq also has large, proven oil reserves, water, ..." [Note that lack of water is a long-standing Israeli problem.]
Wurmser also notes that Iraq threatens its neighbors but mentions only Israel.
Wurmser became Cheney's Assistant for Middle East Policy under Bush I. In the Acknowledgements, Wurmser mentions "two mentors who guided my understanding of the Middle East." One is Ahmad Chalabi.
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Details the preventable blunders and missed opportunities, from Bush's giving the Pentagon the lead managing postwar Iraq to our inability to work with Iraqi leaders such as Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Diamond expresses admiration for US Administrator L. Paul Bremer, who sincerely wanted to bring democracy to Iraq, but was wholly unprepared and unrealistic, resulting in "one of the major overseas blunders in U.S. history."
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