A Pretext for War Audiobook by James Bamford

Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1409 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A Pretext for War Subtitle: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies Author: James Bamford Narrator: Ray Childs Format: Abridged Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins Language: English Release date: 06-09-04 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes Genres: Nonfiction, Politics Publisher's Summary: From the mishandling of the pre-9/11 threat to the unproven claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Bamford argues that the Bush administration has co-opted the intelligence community for its own political ends, and at the expense of American security. Bamford makes the case that the Bush administration's Middle East policy decisions, from overthrowing Saddam to ignoring the situation of the Palestinians, are driven by long-held beliefs and goals of an elite group of conservatives inside and outside of government. A Pretext for War hones in on the systematic weakness that led the intelligence community to ignore or misinterpret evidence of the impending terrorist attacks of 9/11, a failure rooted in the refusal to acknowledge the central role of the Palestinian cause in igniting Arab rage against the United States. Compounding the errors, the Bush administration's immediate response to 9/11 was to call for an attack on Iraq, and it subsequently invented justifications for the preemptive war that has ultimately left the United States more vulnerable to terrorism. A Pretext for War is an unprecedented, utterly convincing expose of the most secretive administration in history. Critic Reviews: "Much of the information and many of the theories in Mr. Bamford's book will be familiar to readers from earlier magazine and newspaper articles, and other books....But Mr. Bamford unearths new details about everything from the identity of one of the disclosed locations used by Vice President Dick Cheney after 9/11...to the failures of a special CIA unit charged with tracking Osama bin Laden, and he connects the many dots, both old and new, to create a vivid, unsettling narrative." (The New York Times)