Endgame; Solving the Iraq Crisis

Scott Ritter

ISBN 10: 0743247728 / ISBN 13: 9780743247726

Published by Simon & Schuster Paperback, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002

About this Item

Simon & Schuster, New York. 2002. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Inscribed by author on title page. First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; crease to front wrap lower corner. No DJ. Pictorial wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded except for small crease on front wrap; spine is not creased or split. 256 pp. Written by the former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq. This book draws on the author's experiences to take the reader inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and to explain where US policy in Iraq went wrong. Go inside some of Iraq's most carefully guarded sites and the dramatic face-offs between UN inspectors and hostile Iraqi guards and officials. A clean pristine copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Endgame; Solving the Iraq Crisis
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperback, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743247728
• ISBN 13: 9780743247726
• Binding: Soft cover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Middle East Affairs
  • Gulf War/Desert Storm/Afghanistan
  • Memoirs

About this title

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.