Why Iraq?…a review

Many books been pub­lished about the war in Iraq but noth­ing like this book “America’s secret war” by “George Fried­man”, the book pin­point the real rea­sons for occu­py­ing Iraq.

Although the US believed Sad­dam Hus­sein pos­sessed weapons of mass destruc­tion, the WMDs were ulti­mately “a cover for a much deeper game”

Fried­man continues.…

Global ter­ror­ism would be the means. Al-Qaida’s open­ing moves — attacks on Amer­i­can embassies and other estab­lish­ments abroad — were aimed.

In Friedman’s opin­ion, less at dam­ag­ing the US than pro­vok­ing it to a reck­less assault on Islam. …
And the enemy num­ber one is not Al-Qa’ida’s and not the Jihadists but the Saudis,

Most of the Sep­tem­ber 11 sui­cide attack­ers had been Saudis. Bin Laden was a Saudi. Saudi money trails were every­where. An inva­sion of Saudi Ara­bia pre­sented the tac­ti­cal prob­lem of wag­ing war against a coun­try of vast area and the strate­gic one of dis­rupt­ing the world’s oil supplies.

The Amer­i­cans had estab­lished and then strength­ened a mil­i­tary pres­ence in coun­tries sur­round­ing Saudi Ara­bia — Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Inva­sion of Iraq would com­plete the encirclement.

The Amer­i­can Admin­is­tra­tion changed the plan from con­tain­ing Sad­dam to con­tain­ing Saudi Arabia.

US-jihadist war hangs in the bal­ance. How­ever, the mea­sured actions of the US dur­ing the past three years, includ­ing its strong mil­i­tary pres­ence in the Mid­dle East, have caused sig­nif­i­cant mod­er­a­tion of the posi­tion on global jihad of Saudi Ara­bia and other Mus­lim regimes.

The strat­egy of the jihadists has stalled: “Not a sin­gle regime has fallen to al-Qa’ida … There is no ris­ing in the Islamic street. [There has been] com­plete fail­ure of al-Qa’ida to gen­er­ate the polit­i­cal response they were seek­ing … At this point the US is win­ning … The war goes on.”

For all those who think G. W. Bush is “in love” with the Iraqis and that’s why he librated them, need to buy the book and read it, it’s worth it.

Read the review here