No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into ChaosThe first book of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, No End In Sight is a shocking story of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Culled from over 200 hours of footage collected for the film, the book provides a candid and alarming retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials, Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts. Together, these voices reveal the principal errors of U.S. policy that largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today -- and what we could and should do about them now. No End In Sight marks the first time Americans will be allowed inside the White House, Pentagon, and Baghdad's Green Zone to understand for themselves the disintegration of Iraq -- and how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening nightmare of a war. |
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... journalists. But the aver- age quality of mass-media journalism was poor, and nobody had made a film about the big question of how and why all this had occurred. The closest thing to such a film was a collection of Frontline episodes ...
... journalists. But the aver- age quality of mass-media journalism was poor, and nobody had made a film about the big question of how and why all this had occurred. The closest thing to such a film was a collection of Frontline episodes ...
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... journalistic friends and said , Don't tell me about all the prob- lems I'll face or about all the people who will make this film in the future . Just tell me if anyone is making this film now . They replied that , to the best of their ...
... journalistic friends and said , Don't tell me about all the prob- lems I'll face or about all the people who will make this film in the future . Just tell me if anyone is making this film now . They replied that , to the best of their ...
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... journalists. Obviously, it would also be desirable to have as much cooperation as possible from the Defense Department. Many ... journalist since 2003 and who spoke good Arabic. We agreed that we would train Nir to use our camcorders and ...
... journalists. Obviously, it would also be desirable to have as much cooperation as possible from the Defense Department. Many ... journalist since 2003 and who spoke good Arabic. We agreed that we would train Nir to use our camcorders and ...
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... journalist and former Kurdish intelligence agent who would be my guide, Kurdish interpreter, and bodyguard. I interviewed a number of private security contractors and spoke with many people who had used security in Iraq. After the ...
... journalist and former Kurdish intelligence agent who would be my guide, Kurdish interpreter, and bodyguard. I interviewed a number of private security contractors and spoke with many people who had used security in Iraq. After the ...
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... journalist friend, Ed Gargan, put me in touch with his friend John Anderson, a Washington Post reporter who was ... journalists, as well as one of Baghdad's very few still- functioning hotels. Jaff would stay next door at the hotel. Nir ...
... journalist friend, Ed Gargan, put me in touch with his friend John Anderson, a Washington Post reporter who was ... journalists, as well as one of Baghdad's very few still- functioning hotels. Jaff would stay next door at the hotel. Nir ...
Contents
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TWO Prewar Planning 24 | 24 |
THREE ORHA 71 | 71 |
FOUR The Looting 104 | 104 |
PART 2 OCCUPATION | 139 |
FIVE Bremer Begins 141 | 141 |
The Disbanding of the Iraqi Military 163 | 163 |
SEVEN The Police Crime and the Security Vacuum 234 | 234 |
ELEVEN Consequences 409 | 409 |
TWELVE Current and Future US Policy in Iraq 463 | 463 |
EPILOGUE Reflections 517 | 517 |
Acknowledgments 565 | 565 |
A Brief History of Iraq before the War 569 | 569 |
Timeline of the War in Iraq 577 | 577 |
Contributors and Key Actors 587 | 587 |
Statistical Graphs 617 | 617 |
EIGHT The Civilian Occupation and the CPA 266 | 266 |
NINE Insurgency Militias and Sectarian Violence 312 | 312 |
TEN The Military Occupation 370 | 370 |
PART 3 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? | 407 |
Index 629 | 629 |
About the Author 641 | 641 |
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