Easton Press: WAR in IRAQ: PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY: SADDAM HUSSEIN: BUSH INVASION

Description: Easton Press leather edition of "The War in Iraq: The Illustrated History," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Editor Robert Sullivan, Title Page includes a portrait of the statue of SADDAM HUSSEIN in front of the National Olympic committee Building, published in 2003 by Time, Inc and Easton Press. Bound in brown leather, the book has camel tan moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, gold gilding on top edge only---in near FINE condition---except for a 'blank' attached bookplate on second blank page. Before Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the Sumerians flourished in the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Iraq, the historical Mesopotamia, was a 'civilized' place where the Pharoah was all-powerful. Iraq's glory days were in the 8th and 9th centuries. The Ottomans, who had controlled Iraq since the 16th century, were in charge but their empire ended with World War I, and the occupying British cobbled together present-day Iraq.By 1920, Iraq was about the size of California, peopled by Shiites and Sunnis. Iraq gained its independence from Great Britain in 1932. The 1955 Baghdad Pact, signed by Faisal II, had decreed Iraq the West's ally, fanning hatred among the nationalist Arab citizenry. SADDAM HUSSEIN attacked KASSEM and Hussein was anointed. Hussein, who could be silver tongued and charming, or fiercely blunt, ruled an ancient people with cunning and cruelty for 24 years. He placed family members or other badlands cronies in key government positions. His nemesis was the United States and he blamed the U.S. for the 1991 Gulf War. After Gulf War I in 1991, Kurds and Shiites fled from Saddam's wrath. By 1995, facing criticism that sanctions were leading to starvation, the U.N. launched an oil-for-food program but the U.N. demanded inspections for mass weapons of destruction. In October 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act, which supported efforts to remove the regime headed by Hussein. In February 2001, President George Bush ordered bombing of missile sites in Iraq. By October 2001, fear of biological and chemical terrorism had spread. In January 2003, President Bush warned Saddam that "time was running out." On March 20, 2003 bombs began falling on Baghdad, and coalition troops entered Iraq to secure the Rumelia oil fields. 1500 bombs and missiles struck Baghdad. On April 3, the U.S. had seized the international airport and by April 8, had gained control of Baghdad. On April 14, President George W. Bush said: "the regime of Saddam Hussein is no more." On April 24, U.S. troops conquered Tikrit, the last major city to fall. Immediately after the war, nothing was easy, little was clear. 178 pages in this folio sized book---originally published at $79.50. I offer combined shipping.

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