The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon looked upon the State Department’s Arabists as supporters of the region’s Sunni regimes; some of the neocons saw themselves as the liberators of the Shia and promoters of democracy, and in other cases they merely distrusted the State Department …

The year had started off on a hopeful note. U.S. officials expected a new prime minister to be selected any day. They planned for him to sit in the balcony for President Bush’s State of the Union address on January 31, 2006. Gen. George Casey, the four-star commander …

Richer readily conceded that the lack of intelligence crippled the military’s postwar effort. The Pentagon wanted tactical intelligence to go after the resistance that was mushrooming in the summer of 2003, but U.S. intelligence resources were being sucked up by the ongoing search for weapons of mass destruction …

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