James Mather

Annals of war

‘I was not an enthusiast about getting US forces and going into Iraq,’ Dick Cheney said in 1997, looking back on the First Gulf War.

  • The Iraq Papers

    John Ehrenberg, J. Patrice McSherry, José Ram

    OUP, pp. 528

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