Disarming Iraq: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction

Disarming Iraq: The Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction

by HansBlix (Author)

Synopsis

Hans Blix will recount the events leading up to the declaration of war on Iraq in March 2003, looking back to Saddam Hussein's long wrangle with the international community since the first Gulf War and before and forward to the implications for international security in the aftermath of the war just ended. In his descriptions of his meetings with Blair, Bush, Chirac, Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell and Kofi Annan, Hans Blix conveys the frustrations, the tensions, the pressure and the drama of the months leading up to the US/UK-led attack on Iraq, and shows how the international community really works, with each nation using the UN to secure its own interests. Hans Blix will ask and answer key questions including: Could the war have been prevented? Was it inevitable? Does Iraq have weapons of mass destruction? Why couldn't the US and the UK secure the backing of the member states of the UN Security Council? What can be learnt from the Iraq war for the prevention of the spread and use of WMDs in the future? He argues from hard-won experience with clarity and conviction that a regime of international inspection is essential to assure us that commitments from not to acquire or possess weapons of mass destruction are respected.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Airport and Export ed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 09 Mar 2004

ISBN 10: 0747573581
ISBN 13: 9780747573586
Book Overview: *The must-read book for everyone who really wants to understand what happened on the run-up to the declaration of war against Iraq by the one unimpeachable witness to those events *A clear picture of what the future holds by the man best qualified to say *Hans Blix has been appointed Chairman of the International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction, which will keep him in the public eye for a long time to come