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Regime unchanged : why the attack on Iraq changed nothing
- Title
- Regime unchanged : why the attack on Iraq changed nothing / Milan Rai.
- Author
- Rai, Milan.
- Publication
- London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 230 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Presents evidence that Ba'athists were deliberately restored to power, and demonstrates that this was not a war for disarmament, or for 'regime change', but a war for power. [back cover].
- Subject
- Since 1945
- Geschichte
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Causes
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Propaganda
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Moral and ethical aspects > Great Britain
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
- Ethics
- Politics and government
- Propaganda
- War > Causes
- Erdölpolitik
- Kriegsursache
- Machtpolitik
- Massenvernichtungswaffe
- Oorlogen
- Politieke situatie
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- United States of America
- Great Britain
- Government
- Politics
- Iraq War (2003)
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 1945-
- United States > Politics and government > 1989-
- Iraq
- Great Britain
- United States
- Großbritannien
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Echoing voices -- Introduction : Tony Blair wobbled : we nearly derailed the war -- 1. Argument over : the war was wrong -- 2. "Regime change" : a prior commitment -- 3. First strike : the February 2001 bombing of Baghdad -- 4. Sickly inhibitions : the political significance of 11 September -- 5. George Bush lied : misconnecting Iraq, WMD and terrorism -- 6. The first ultimatum : the five demands -- 7. Disaster strikes : Iraq accepts the weapons inspectors -- 8. The minefield : Resolution 1441 : designed to be refused -- 9. No smoke, no gun : no evidence discovered -- 10. Colin Powell lied : turning on the inspectors -- 11. Inspection was an option : qualitative disarmament -- 12. Blitzing Dr. Blix : UNMOVIC resists -- 13. The censored document : destroying the inspectors -- 14. Authority and power : US/UK versus the UN -- 15. Regime reloaded : re-Nazifying Iraq -- 16. Hitler won : false de-Nazification -- 17. Coup dÉtat : the US wanted a coup -- 18. Why "regime stabilization : Turkey and Saudi Arabia need Saddamism -- 19. Crushing the resistance : After WWII : betraying the anti-fascists -- 20. Regime revolutions : de-Baáthification? -- 21. Shina power : a looming confrontation with the people of Iraq -- 22. Sunni rage : after Falluja -- 23. Capitalism's war -- 24. Regime unchanged -- Postscript : what would you have done? -- Notes -- Contributor notes -- Index.
- ISBN
- 074532200X
- 9780745322001
- 0745321992
- 9780745321998
- LCCN
- 2003278565
- OCLC
- ocm52783669
- 52783669
- SCSB-14404078
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library