Charles Duelfer is one of the most senior intelligence officers with on-the-ground experience to have worked in Iraq before, during, and after the Gulf War. His 2004 CIA report is widely renowned as the most authoritative account on how the world was led to believe that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. But until now, Duelfer has never publicly shared his unrivaled expertise on just how the U. S. -Iraq relationship spiraled into a second war, and ultimately into chaos. Hide and Seek is his account-based on ...
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Charles Duelfer is one of the most senior intelligence officers with on-the-ground experience to have worked in Iraq before, during, and after the Gulf War. His 2004 CIA report is widely renowned as the most authoritative account on how the world was led to believe that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. But until now, Duelfer has never publicly shared his unrivaled expertise on just how the U. S. -Iraq relationship spiraled into a second war, and ultimately into chaos. Hide and Seek is his account-based on unparalleled access to Iraqi leadership, the White House, and the CIA-of the long and tragic unraveling of the U. S. relationship with Iraq. This book sees beyond the propaganda and deceits of both sides to tell the story of the miscalculations in assessing Iraq as a threat, why Saddam responded as he did to U. S. demands, and precisely how the U. S. implemented its decision to topple Saddams regime. No one is better able than Duelfer to see inside the mindsets of the two administrations, with their mismatched priorities, wounded pride, and dangerous ability to bluff and counterbluff.
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Charles Duelfer was active in the CIA throughout the Bush presidencies and between. He specialized in WMD inspections in Iraq. Probably nobody is more credible whose thoughts we can access.
In 'Hide and Seek' Duelfer candidly shares his experiences -- the good, the bad, and the ugly -- as one of the few privy to insider thinking in Washington AND Baghdad during the years leading up to the 2003 invasion.
The leftist chant "Bush Lied, People Died" is shown for the canard it obviously was. More interesting to me was his analysis of what went wrong in the immediate post-invasion occupation.
The Iraqi hope, and Bush's idea, was to peel off the worst gangsters at the top of the Baathist regime and let the rest of the country alone. This idea was subverted, in Duelfer's account, by the Secretary of Defense, who succeeded in making an enemy out of everybody in Iraq that owned a gun.
At least, however, Bush was negligent in not stomping out rebellion in Rumsfeld, whom he must have seen as a kind of uncle. Condi doesn't come off well either in this account. But Cheney, whom some love to hate, was never "Bush's brain".
I think anybody who presumes to have an opinion on the Iraq war should read this book.
