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The Man Who Pushed America to War
Aram Roston
The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Nation Books
March 2008
On Sale: March 3, 2008
369 pages ISBN: 1568583532 EAN: 9781568583532 Hardcover
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From an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter--an
explosive biography that tells the untold story of the man
most responsible for the war in Iraq. Ahmad Chalabi literally changed the world. If anyone were to
get the most credit for pushing the United States to war in
Iraq, Chalabi, a wealthy exile who spent most of his life
out of Iraq, would certainly be a leading contender. A convicted felon and a fugitive from justice in Jordan,
Chalabi managed to charm and influence the top leaders of
the United States. Those leaders gave him United States
government money, which he would, in turn, use to lobby
them. He then rode America's immense power, harnessing it to
his interests. More so than President George W. Bush or Vice
President Richard Cheney, Chalabi and his followers steered
the United States toward its fateful position in Iraq. This is an extraordinary investigative biography, by a
brilliant young Emmy award-winning journalist who works for
NBC's Investigative Unit, telling the story of Chalabi as a
gifted MIT mathematician, to his misadventures in the Middle
East, to the invasion of Iraq, which he himself took part in
the most theatrical way, posing in the desert with a rag-tag
army of Iraqis.
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