Cost of the Iraq war: A new book, America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010, answers this question and many more

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District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) November 23, 2010 -- What has been the cost of the Iraq war? Why is America in Iraq? Is there a reason for the Iraq war? These questions, and many more, are discussed in a new book by Michael M. O’Brien, published by AuthorHouse.

– After George H.W. Bush liberated Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War of 1991, Saddam Hussein was allowed to return to his country and do whatever he wanted to his people, and his internal enemies, with minimal effort to stop him on the part of the United States and its allies. As a result, Saddam was stronger, and far worse, than he had been before.

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Cost of the Iraq war: A new book, America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010, answers this question and many more

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– After the Gulf War the United Nations and the United States imposed sanctions to punish Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait. But the only ones who suffered were the Iraqi people. Saddam didn’t suffer at all. Instead, he cashed in on illegal oil sales as he circumvented the “food for oil” program. He got stronger, while his country was on its knees. This made conditions ripe for a terrorist recruiting ground, as Iraqi men couldn’t feed their families and Iraq’s economy became a black market.

– Twelve years later, George W. Bush, son of the previous president, went back to Iraq. Why did he do this? What were his reasons? We were told that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction—WMD—and he was about to use them. This proved to be nothing more than an assumption, and WMD were never found.

– George W. Bush implemented a policy of “preemptive strike,” whereby the United States would attack a foe before it had a chance to attack us. But Iraq was no threat to the United States, wasn’t invading any of its neighbors, and there was never clear evidence that he possessed WMD in a meaningful amount, or with the capability of using them in the near future.

– The cost of the Iraq war has been over 500,000 Iraqis killed since the United States invaded in March 2003. Iraq war casualties also include 5,000 American soldiers killed, as well as hundreds of allied forces belonging to the “Coalition of the Willing.”

– But the cost of the Iraq war has also been the reputation of the United States around the world. After the events of September 11, 2001, the US had the sympathy and goodwill of the world. President Bush went to Afghanistan to peruse Al Qaeda and the Taliban regime. This was a valid operation, and was going well.

– Then he invaded Iraq, taking troops out of Afghanistan, and creating a civil war and insurgency in the same country we were supposed to save from Saddam. The US attempted to “transition” from Coalition to Iraqi control of its country and its destiny. Yet, this transition was sidetracked when Paul Bremer, the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the CPA, disbanded the Iraqi Army and National Police, thereby leaving the country without its own security infrastructure.

– Barack Hussein Obama campaigned on withdrawal from Iraq (and Afghanistan), yet we are still there today. Iraq is getting better, only because of the surge of American soldiers in Iraq 2007. This was after four years of inaction by the US that left hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, wounded and homeless. Obama is now setting an Iraq war timeline for our withdrawal, but this seems to change like the weather.

America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010 is an analysis of the “military-industrial complex” that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about in 1961. The author concludes we are already there. The cost of the Iraq war has been America’s reputation— and Iraqi lives—in exchange for huge profits made by major US and foreign corporations.

America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010 is a “must read” for anyone who loves America, but hates what its leadership keeps doing over and over. The United States doesn’t declare war any more. Instead, it conducts “police actions” that leave the American people in the dark, sends too few soldiers into the fight, and augments these with civilian contractors—a.k.a., mercenaries.

America’s Failure In Iraq: Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010, is a first-hand account of the United States’ involvement in Iraq in the post-Operation Iraqi Freedom period. It describes the cost of the Iraq war and reveals many Iraq facts that have not been publicized. It was written by a West Point graduate, a former Infantry officer in the US Army, and a former member of the George W. Bush administration.

Michael M. O’Brien served as an advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense in Baghdad, traveling throughout the country to advise the Iraqi military in its land and base construction needs. He writes about life as a civilian contractor in a military environment, and the complete lack of cooperation that existed as a result.

More information can be found online at http://www.americasfailureiniraq.com

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