Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis

Ritter, Scott

ISBN 10: 0743247728 / ISBN 13: 9780743247726

Published by Simon & Schuster (edition ), 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (edition )
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743247728
• ISBN 13: 9780743247726
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IRAQ?
Scott Ritter spent seven years in Iraq as an arms inspector for the United Nations. His 1998 resignation as the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector there made front-page headlines around the world. In Endgame, Ritter draws on his experiences to take us inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and to explain where U.S. policy in Iraq went wrong.
Ritter describes in detail the ways that Saddam tried to foil inspectors by concealing his weapons programs. He brings readers with him inside some of Iraq's most carefully guarded sites and shows us dramatic face-offs between U.N. inspectors and hostile Iraqi guards and officials. But Ritter criticizes the U.S. for squandering an international consensus on Iraq and trying to use the inspections process for uniquely American goals. He argues strongly against the proposed American military strike against Iraq, suggesting instead a bold and innovative solution to the long-standing crisis.

About the Author

Scott Ritter was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1984 and served for eight years as an intelligence officer, reaching the rank of major. He was an arms control inspector in the Soviet Union and served on the staff of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf before joining Unscom, the U.N. weapons inspection program in Iraq.