and new Iraqi government,
394-95, 396 protests by, 228-29 Shinseki, General Eric K., 141-42,
151 Shrine of Ali (Imam Ali Mosque),
322-23 Silberman, Laurence H., xiv, 283-87,
311,317-18 Silberman, Ricky, 284, 318 Silberman-Robb commission, 311,
317-18 founding of, 284-87 Sistani, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-, 229,
263-64, 313, 322-23, 370,
421, 445, 447 Situation Room, 245, 263, 274, 352,
371,375,435 60 Minutes II, 305, 346 Skelton, Ike, 42 Slate, 449 Slocombe, Walter B., 195, 205, 206,
209, 265, 288 Smith, Fred, 361 Smith, Jeremiah D., 207 Snow, John, 448 snowflakes, 23-24, 32, 34 Social Security reform, 447 Somalia, 121, 130,467 Sorley, Lewis, 418 South Korea, 387 South Vietnam, 419 Soviet Union, 158, 235, 237, 255,
389, 410, 446, 484 collapse of, 272-73, 387 Space Command, 70 Space Cowboys, 202 Spain, in Coalition, 292 Spanish Brigade, 292 Special Forces, 77-78, 309, 322, 405 Special Operations Forces, 432 Special Republican Guard, 214 Spence, Floyd, 42 Stalin, Joseph, 158 Stanford University, 455
Starr, Kenneth, 283
State Department, U.S., 91, 108,
111, 128, 130, 162, 167, 168, 170, 178, 190, 196,208,221, 238,240,244,254,306,312, 318,321,322,334,360,362, 367, 380, 387, 389, 390, 392, 396,411,412,415,418, 421-22, 444, 463, 466, 471 Defense Department rivalry with,
104, 129, 143-44 as Department of Nice, 108,129 Future of Iraq study of, 111-12, 126, 128 State of the Union address: of 2002, 342 of 2003, 218, 231-34 of 2004, 277 of2005, 373 Stevens, Ted, 398 Stewart, Colonel Carol, 118-19 Strategic Infrastructure Battalions,
443 Straw, Jack, 457-58 Strock, Carl A., 189 Studeman, William, 333 Sudan, 270 suicide bombers, 45, 429
threats of, 211 Sulick, Michael, 363 Sultan, Prince of Saudi Arabia, 3,
75-77 Summers, Larry, 166 Sunday Afternoon Prayer
Sessions, 121 Sunnis, 107, 116, 117, 184, 234, 265,275,277,297,312-13, 359, 407, 419, 429, 436, 458, 459,461,473-75,477,481 on Constitutional Committee, 396 December 15 elections and, 435 as insurgents, 315, 383, 394, 406,
483-84 January 30 elections and, 370, 375, 376, 381, 383, 388, 395
Sunnis (cont.)
and new Iraqi government, 392,
394-95, 396 past minority rule by, 131, 229,
296, 301 withdrawal from Governing
Council by, 299 SunTzu, 199-200 Sununu, John, 355 Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution (SCIRI), 175 Supreme Court, U.S., xii, 15, 195,
283, 284, 447-48, 457,
486-87 in 2000 election, 340 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,
338-39 Switzerland, 259 Syria, 235, 236, 238, 246, 373, 395,
401, 434, 444, 461
Talabani, Hero, 172
Talabani, Jalal, 172, 174-76, 392-93,
453 Taliban, 78, 86, 87,130, 326,408,
482 Tallil, 161 tax cuts, 7, 16 teachers, firing of Baathist, 209, 292,
294 Tel Aviv, nightclub bombing in, 45 television, 230, 346, 349 advertising on, 345 in Baghdad, 198 U.S. sponsored, 231, 247 Tenet, George, 49-52, 77-78, 79-80, 89-90,97, 114, 120, 132, 135, 153, 178,204,235,245, 266-67, 276 on Iraqi national intelligence
service, 254-55 on Iraq WMD, 90 resignation of, 317, 328 slam dunk reference to WMD by, 90, 303-4, 330, 354
telecommunications and banking
agreements of, 323-25 on WMD, 213-18, 231-38,
243-44, 257-58, 272, 277-82
terrorists, terrorism, 7, 8, 84, 116, 121, 132, 197,204,211,246, 248, 254, 265, 268, 288, 295, 297, 300, 342, 353, 358, 359, 376,398,410,413,417,435, 462, 465, 468-69, 470-73, 476, 477, 482-83, 489 Geneva Conventions not applicable to, 86-87 rendition of, 80-81 see also September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP), 324
Texas, 345
Texas A I, 297
Texas Air National Guard, 3
Texas Rangers, 356
Thatcher, Margaret, 4
3rd Infantry Division, 152, 185
Thomas, Clarence, 284
Thomas, Jim, 130
Thompson, Fred, 356-57
Thompson, Larry, 356
Tigris River, 207
Tikrit, 275, 290-91
Time, 100, 221, 223, 448
Time-Phased Force and Deployment Data (TPFDD), 103-4
Title X, 18,38, 55-56,58, 63
Tobyhanna Army Depot, 422
Townsend, Frances Fragos, 323-24, 401
TPFDD, see Time-Phased Force and Deployment Data
Trade Ministry, Iraqi, 150-51
Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), 264
translators, 227, 431 need for, 320-21, 332
Treasury Department, U.S., Ill
troops, U.S.:
Iraq force levels of, 118, 190, 191, 248, 249, 256-57, 259, 301-2, 312, 360, 413-14, 416, 426 Iraqi army embedding of, 288-89 Iraq rebuilding done by, 290-91 losses of, 360, 375, 382, 396, 398,
410, 431, 434, 437, 490 rotation of, 433-34 withdrawals from Iraq of, 409, 423-24, 462, 478, 481 Truman, Harry S., 265, 372, 484 Truman, USS, 41
Truman Presidential Library, 484 Tubb, Richard J., 437, 453 Tunisia, 204, 308 Turkey, 308, 409 Tutwiler, Margaret, 170-71, 182 25th Infantry Division, 291
Umm Qasr, 160, 209 Unfit for Command, 339 United Arab Emirates, 400 United Kingdom, see Great Britain United Nations, 11, 22, 93, 103,
107, 130, 135-36, 177, 209, 277, 365, 435, 488 export control mechanism of, 279 and Iraqi elections, 370, 374, 382 Negroponte as U.S. ambassador
to, 307-8 Oil-for-Food (OFF) program of,
199 Powell's WMD speech to, 209,
216-17,228,238-39,242,258 return to Iraq by, 295-96, 298-99 truck bombing of Baghdad headquarters of, 245-46, 247-48, 261, 295 weapons inspectors of, 99, 213, 215-16, 228, 238, 242, 273, 416 unity of command, 142, 144-45, 191,397
unlawful combatants, 86
uranium, 217, 218, 231-32, 233
uranium oxide, 97
USAID, 334
U.S. News World Report, 400
Vieira de Mello, Sergio, 245-46, 295
Vieques, 36
Vietnam, 199, 307
Vietnamization, 480
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 455
Vietnam War, 61, 70, 308, 332, 338,
403, 418, 423, 467 body counts in, 319-20, 482 Iraq compared to, 244, 309-10,
319,372,398,407-11,419,
426, 455, 477, 483 Virginia, 339
Virginia, University of, 387 Volcker, Paul, 166 Vulcans, 7-8, 10-11 VX nerve gas, 216
Wald, General Charles E, 78 Wald, Patricia, 286 Wall Street Journal, 378, 421 Walters, Buck, 221-22 Warner, John, 361, 398, 404 war on terror, 247, 409, 423, 482 Warrick, Tom, 126, 127-28, 144,
196 Washington, George, 325 Washington Post, 138, 170, 209, 218,
233, 240, 244, 248, 270, 281,
305,317,374,390,407-8,
429, 444, 488-90 Washington Times, 69 Watergate, 42, 286 Waxman, Henry, 287 weapons of mass destruction
(WMD), 90, 92, 93, 98-99,
132,159-60, 165 blame assigned for State of the
Union address regarding,
231-34
weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) (cont.) Cheney's preoccupation with,
214, 234, 235, 237-48,
259-60,278,416 CIA investigations of, 212, 213,
215-19,227-28,231-35,
242-44, 248, 257-58,
259-60,271-73, 277-82,
317,415-16 exploitation of, 102 and George W. Bush's Axis of
Evil speech, 342 George W. Bush's statements on,
138-39, 209-10, 212, 218,
231-34,353,416,423,435,
488-90 Kay's Congressional testimony
on, 329-30 as not found, 153-54, 160,
161, 165, 185, 192,210-11,
231,283,285,391,474,
491 Powell's UN speech regarding,
209,216-17,228,238-39,
242, 258 Rice on, 377 Saddam's alleged possession of,
210,213,215-18,2
34,236,
239, 242-43, 258, 278-79,
354, 415, 488-90 Silberman-Robb Commission
and, 284-87, 311,317-18 Tenet's slam dunk reference to,
90, 303-4, 330, 354 Weapons of Mass Destruction
Master Site List (WMDMSL),
93-96, 100-101, 115,121,
138-39, 147, 153,213,214,
228, 416 Weber, Vin, 356 Weinberger, Caspar, 20 West Point, 342, 371, 426, 445 Wheaton College, 342
White House, 490
White House Correspondents Dinner, 184
Whiteman Air Force Base, 66-67
Wild Weasel missions, 70
Wilkinson, Jim, 390, 458, 463, 464-67
Williams, Chris, 432-33
Wilson, James Q., 84
Wilson, Joseph C, 218-19, 232
Wilson, Pete, 166, 361
Winfrey, Oprah, 231
Wolfowitz, Paul, 7-8, 26, 43-44, 83, 90, 109, 117, 127, 130, 138, 140-41, 145, 148-49, 182, 208,215-16,220,249, 250-52,255,295,310,313, 361, 367, 368-69, 384, 476 as neoconservative intellectual
architect of the war, 309 as proposed Iraq envoy, 167-69 Saddam regime seen as pure evil by, 309
Wolfowitz-Feith Option, 261
Woodrow Wilson Center, 434
World Transformed, A (Bush and Scowcroft), 14
World War I, 380, 479
World War II, 81, 124, 248, 263, 400,416,459,479
Yaggi, General Ron, 105 Yale University, 297, 356 Years of Renewal (Kissinger), 407 Yemen, 204
Zakaria, Fareed, 84 Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-, 120,
371-72, 382, 401, 410, 444,
477-78 Zelikow, Philip, 52 Iraq assessments of, 387-89,
396-97, 412-15, 417-18,
421,444,452
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Eric Draper (The White House): 27, 28
Sean Gallup (Getty): 3
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Ray Lustig (The Washington Post): 26
Melina Mara (The Washington Post): 24
Courtesy of James Spider Marks: 11
John McDonnell (The Washington Post): 19
Larry Morris (The Washington Post): 12
Paul Morse (The White House): 14
Scott Nelson (Associated Press): 13
Lucian Perkins (The Washington Post): 17
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