4 different assessments of the invasion & occupation of Iraq: --- 1 This U.S. action was explained in a justificatory pretense in books like: Feith, Douglass J., WAR AND DECISION. Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism; and Bobbitt, Philip, TERROR AND CONSENT. The Wars for the 21st Century, Alfred A. Knopff, NY, 2008.

2 The actions and the doctrine (who's main author & strong operative was vicepresident Dick Cheney who manouvered extensively to get president Bush's order to the military to act) were exposed as incorrect; supported in unsubstantiated biased unvetted non-multisource weak "intelligence"; an egregiuos bad excercise of analysis by the U.S. National Security Council at the White House and a failure to exercise sufficient critical judgement and independent thought by president Bush and the seasoned then Secretary of State Collin Powell; and a failure to exercise anticipatory comprehensive analysis by the U.S. government, by books such as: Hersh, Seymour M., CHAIN OF COMMAND. The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, Harper Collins Publishers, USA, 2004, and Matthews, Jeffrey J., COLIN POWELL. Imperfect Patriot, University of Notre Dame Press, USA, 2019, chapter 8.

Source author: Eric Suzán Reed esuzan@sre.gob.mx