《secret way to war, the》是2006年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Rk Danner。
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- 書名：secret way to war, the
- 作者：Rk Danner
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9781590172070
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
The United States went to war in Iraq to eliminate the threatfrom Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction—which turned outnot to exist. As the war drags on, the strange case of the weaponsthat were not there remains a matter of bitter debate, for itunderscores the fact that the goals and the motivations of the Bushadministration officials who argued for war are still largelyobscure. Yet in fact there exists crucial and little-publicizedevidence that lets us understand the secretive, even deceptive, waythat the the US launched a war of choice in the Middle East inMarch 2003.At the beginning of May 2005, just before the British elections,the London Times published the "Downing Street Memo," the leakedsecret minutes of a July 2002 meeting of senior Britishintelligence, foreign policy, and security officials. The memo madeclear that eight months before the invasion of Iraq, President Bushhad already decided on war. The British officials who attended themeeting were told that the "intelligence and facts were being fixedaround the policy," that the US wanted to avoid consulting the UN,and that few plans were being made for the aftermath of war.Largely ignored in the US press for weeks afterward, The New YorkReview of Books published the memo in its entirety with anextensive commentary by award-winning journalist Mark Danner.Danner explains how the memo clarifies the broader—and largelyconcealed—history of the events leading up to the Iraq war. Heshows that the Bush and Blair administrations advocated theresumption of UN weapons inspections as a means not to avoid warbut to ensure it. Most importantly, Danner argues that in the faceof the memo's clear evidence of deception, the press, public, andCongress still have not held the administration responsible.The Secret Way to War, with a preface by by Frank Rich, includesMark Danner's strongly argued analysis of the Downing Street Memoas well as the complete text of the memo and seven other leakedBritish documents. Collectively, the documents show the members ofTony Blair's government and their counterparts in Washingtonstruggling to find legal and political rationales and strategiesfor regime change in Iraq.
作者簡介
Mark Danner, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War, The Road to Illegitimacy: One Reporter's Travels Through the 2000 Florida Recount, and Torture and Truth. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. He lives in Berkeley and New York.Frank Rich is an Associate Editor and columnist at The New York Times.
