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The Last Card - Inside George W. Bush's Decision toSurgeinIraq (Hardcover)
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The Last Card - Inside George W. Bush's Decision toSurgeinIraq (Hardcover)
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This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on
Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing
on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials,
including President Bush himself, The Last Card offers an
unprecedented look into the process by which Bush overruled much of
the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and
authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to
the warzone in a bid to save Iraq from collapse in 2007. The
adoption of a new counterinsurgency strategy and surge of new
troops into Iraq altered the American posture in the Middle East
for a decade to come. In The Last Card we have access to the
deliberations among the decision-makers on Bush's national security
team as they embarked on that course. In their own words, President
George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security
Advisor Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, White
House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, Secretary of Defense Robert
Gates, and others, recount the debates and disputes that informed
the process as President Bush weighed the historical lessons of
Vietnam against the perceived strategic imperatives in the Middle
East. For a president who had earlier vowed never to dictate
military strategy to generals, the deliberations in the Oval Office
and Situation Room in 2006 constituted a trying and fateful moment.
Even a president at war is bound by rules of consensus and limited
by the risk of constitutional crisis. What is to be achieved in the
warzone must also be possible in Washington, D.C. Bush risked
losing public esteem and courted political ruin by refusing to
disengage from the costly war in Iraq. The Last Card is a portrait
of leadership—firm and daring if flawed—in the Bush White
House. The personal perspectives from men and women who served at
the White House, Foggy Bottom, the Pentagon, and in Baghdad, are
complemented by critical assessments written by leading scholars in
the field of international security. Taken together, the candid
interviews and probing essays are a first draft of the history of
the surge and new chapter in the history of the American
presidency.
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