Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein - Softcover

Nixon, John

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9780593077771: Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein

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ISBN 10: 0593077776 ISBN 13: 9780593077771

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2016

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What Saddam told John Nixon during the conversations he had with him after his capture in late 2003 and early 2004 was to make Washington policymakers very unhappy. He convincingly rebutted the justifications used by the Bush administration for going to war.

Were people ready to listen to this information? Even if they listened, did they hear? At the start of the debriefings, Nixon felt he knew Saddam. But in the ensuing weeks, he learned that the West had vastly misunderstood both him and his role as a determined foe of radical currents in the Islamic world, including Sunni extremism. And this was to prove a very expensive mistake indeed.

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Review:

"Refreshingly candid... [Mr. Nixon] reveals gobsmacking facts about that deposed Iraqi leader that raise new questions about why the United States bothered to invade Iraq to oust him from power" (The New York Times)

"A fascinating glimpse of the "tough, shrewd, manipulative" leader and his views on the U.S. invasion, Iraqi history, and his own role in the Middle East...An intelligent and readable postscript to the Iraq War that will be valuable for future historians." (Kirkus)

Book Description:

An extraordinary and compelling first-person account of the interrogation of Saddam Hussein

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