Today, Iraq; Tomorrow, The World?

Both inside and outside of the U.S. government mostly unseen, powerful forces may have prompted the American attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Did they also originate the primary justification for the attack: a presumption that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction, thus posing an imminent threat to the security of the United States? The WMD of President Bush's alarms proved to be a costly myth that claimed lives nonetheless: more than 500 Americans and an estimated 10,000 Iraqis at a price of $1 billion a week for the U.S. taxpayers. This book searches (for the first time) for the source of the myth and the real cause behind the war. The cause may prove a surprising one that possibly awaits other nonconformist Middle East nations.