Nixon writes, Hussein’s disengagement meant that he “appeared to be as clueless about what was happening inside Iraq as his British and American enemies were.” had some evidence that this was the case before the invasion, but that “it was never relayed to policy makers and emerged only after the war.” By 2003, Mr. He was no longer running the government.” Strikingly, Mr. “I can speak only for myself when I say that the answer must be no.
“Was Saddam worth removing from power?” Mr. Bush’s administration had claimed to justify the invasion. Nixon was not on a mission to blow up the world, as George W. Hussein was certainly a brutal dictator, but the man described by Mr. Nixon that the United States military had taken away his writing materials, preventing him from finishing his book. Nixon as both president of Iraq and a writer, and complained to Mr. His most astonishing discovery was that by the time of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Hussein had turned over the day-to-day running of the Iraqi government to his aides and was spending most of his time writing a novel. Nixon realized that much of what he thought he knew about him was wrong. Once he began debriefing Hussein, though, Mr. The agency, he writes, is so eager to please the president - any president - that it will almost always give him the answers he wants to hear.
and what he sees as the agency’s dysfunctional process for providing intelligence to the president and other policy makers. Nixon offers a stinging indictment of the C.I.A. These details will likely appall Americans who have watched their nation’s blood and treasure wasted in Iraq ever since. officer to interrogate Hussein after his capture in December 2003, reveals gobsmacking facts about that deposed Iraqi leader that raise new questions about why the United States bothered to invade Iraq to oust him from power. There are exceptions, and that list includes the refreshingly candid “Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein” by John Nixon. Others are doomed by the C.I.A.’s heavy-handed and mandatory censorship. memoirs are terrible - defensive, jingoistic and worst of all, tedious.
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