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The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush
Overlook
February 2007
On Sale: January 23, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 1590512383
EAN: 9781590512388
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq rose against
Saddam Hussein. Barry M. Lando, a former investigative
producer for 60 Minutes, argues compellingly that this
ill-fated uprising represents one instance among many of
Western complicity in Saddam Hussein's crimes against
humanity. The Shia were responding to the call for rebellion
from President George H.W. Bush that was broadcast
repeatedly across Iraq by clandestine CIA stations. But,
just as the revolution was on the brink of success, the
United States and its allies turned their backs: U.S. troops
destroyed huge weapons caches to prevent them from falling
into rebel hands and blocked rebels trying to reach Baghdad.
In the end, tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of
thousands, were massacred. Because of restrictions imposed by the Special Tribunal
prosecuting Saddam Hussein, the extensive role of the U.S.
and its allies in his crimes will never be explored at his
trial. But as Web of Deceit demonstrates, the nations that
now denounce Saddam most prominently secretly backed the
dictator from his rise to power in the 1960s and '70s to his
offensives in Iran and, despite warnings, took no action to
stop his invasion of Kuwait. They also turned their backs
when he used chemical weapons against the Iraqi people and
persisted in international sanctions long after they had
proved ineffective and, for hundreds of thousands of Iraqi
civilians, lethal. Web of Deceit draws on a wide range of journalism and
scholarship to present a complete picture of what really
happened in Iraq under Saddam, detailing—for the first
time—the complicity of the West in its full and alarming extent.
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