TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steele,Jonathan
TI  - Defeat: why America and Britain lost Iraq 
SN  - 9781582434032
AV  - DS79.76 .S69 2008
U1  - 956.7044/3 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Berkeley, CA
PB  - Counterpoint, Distributed by Publishers Group West
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Insurgency
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Shiites
KW  - Sunnites
KW  - Participation, British
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2001-2009
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 21st century
N1  - include bibliography, index; Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-277) and index; Introduction -- Iraq without Iraqis -- Arab anguish -- Creating resistance : the Sunnis -- Creating resistance : the Shias -- Leave in time or get bogged down -- Creating resistance : humiliation and death -- Britain and Basra -- Sectarian conflict : who's to blame? -- The farce of sovereignty -- Conclusion
N2  - Describes how the Bush and Blair administrations failed to account for the military past of Iraq and nationalist feelings of Iraqis before the 2003 invasion, and how this failure led to the drawn-out civil conflict within the country after the fall of Saddam Hussein
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip083/2007043546.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1413/2007043546-d.html
ER  -