TY - BOOK ID - 14467877 TI - Iraq : The Cost of War PY - 2016 SN - 9781785151255 PB - London : William Heinemann, DB - UniCat KW - IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011 KW - IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011--CAUSES UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14467877 AB - Tony Blair's decision to back George W. Bush in his attack on Iraq will go down as a defining moment for Blair, and for Britain. As Ambassador to the UN, the author was centre stage in the dramatic months leading up to the Iraq war. After the war he was Special Envoy for Iraq, the UK's highest authority on the ground, and he worked side by side with Paul Bremer, the US administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, in Baghdad and saw first-hand the impact of the divisive turf wars back in Washington. He kept a diary of what he witnessed in Iraq as the security situation deteriorated and has spoken remarkably candidly about the US-led administration. This extraordinary book is a record of everything he saw. ER -