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Annotation <div><div><div>why Did The Invasion Of Iraq Result In Cultural Destruction And Killings Of Intellectuals? Convention Sees Accidents Of War And Poor Planning In A Campaign To Liberate Iraqis. The Authors Argue Instead That The Invasion Aimed To Dismantle The Iraqi State To Remake It As A Client Regime. Post-invasion Chaos Created Conditions Under Which The Cultural Foundations Of The State Could Be Undermined. The Authors Painstakingly Document The Consequences Of The Occupiers' Willful Inaction And Worse, Which Led To The Ravaging Of One Of The World's Oldest Recorded Cultures. Targeted Assassination Of Over 400 Academics, Kidnapping And The Forced Flight Of Thousands Of Doctors, Lawyers, Artists And Other Intellectuals Add Up To Cultural Cleansing. This Important Work Lays To Rest Claims That The Invasion Aimed To Free An Educated Population To Develop Its Own Culture Of Democracy.</div></div></div> Pt. I Formulating And Executing The Policy Of Cultural Cleansing -- Ending The Iraqi State / Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael, And Tareq Y. Ismael -- Cultural Cleansing In Comparative Perspective / Glenn E. Perry -- Pt. Ii Policy In Motion : The Assault On Iraq's Incompar

Author

Raymond William Baker; Shereen T Ismael; Tareq Yousif Ismael

Publisher

Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745328133

Subjects

History, Political Science, Social Science