America's Destruction of Iraq

"America's Destruction of Iraq" by Michael M. O'Brien, a conservative Washington insider, delves into the roots of radical Islamic terrorism fueled by the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Highlighting the rise of the Islamic State as a direct consequence, O'Brien, a West Point graduate and former Bush administration appointee, criticizes the political and military mismanagement that led to catastrophic waste and loss of life. With firsthand experience as a contractor advising the new Iraqi Army, O'Brien offers a compelling critique against the backdrop of fabricated intelligence and political motives, asserting America's intervention as a disaster comparable to Vietnam, shaped by a misguided military-industrial complex.

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About the Author: Michael M. O'Brien
America's Destruction of Iraq is the story of one man's experiences there, interwoven with the involvement of his country, the United States of America. Michael O’Brien was in the first administration of George W. Bush: he was in Dacha, Bangladesh on September 11, 2001, and later on the staff of the Office of Homeland Security in the White House. He was a Department of Defense contractor in Iraq from June 2006 to September 2007—the height of the insurgency—as a senior advisor to the new Iraqi Ministry of Defense in Baghdad. He witnessed first-hand America's post-invasion mismanagement of Iraq: the picture he paints is not a pretty one. Michael O’Brien is a graduate of West Point and former Infantry officer. He was also a Contracting Officer in the United States government. With his combination of qualifications and personal experience, Michael O’Brien's assessment of America’s involvement in Iraq before, during, and especially after its invasion in March 2003 is uncomfortably direct and painfully blunt. He holds nothing back. America's Destruction of Iraq is the perspective of someone who was “on the ground" in Iraq, not someone who merely read about it. Michael O'Brien lives in Arlington, Virginia.
America's Destruction of Iraq by Washington insider Michael M. O'Brien details the origins of radical Islamic terrorism now spreading across the Middle East and North Africa. The outgrowth of America's involvement in Iraq, culminating with its March 2003 invasion, is the Islamic State—the most violent terrorist organization in history.

Michael O'Brien is an outlier: a conservative and former political appointee in the administration of George W. Bush, with an abiding contempt for the political and military mismanagement of the Iraq War, officially referred to as Operation Iraqi Freedom. A graduate of West Point and former Infantry officer, and a former U.S. government Contracting Officer, O'Brien saw the effects of the Iraq invasion from the inside out—not as a soldier but as a contractor advising the new Iraqi Army and Ministry of Defense on its physical infrastructure, including the acquisition of land and Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) originally built for Coalition forces.

Compounding in outrage, compelling in detail, Michael O'Brien condemns the waste of tens of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars, and the needless loss of American and Iraqi lives. The Bush administration's desire for war was built on fabricated intelligence and the political agendas of a handful of senior officials. But it is the senior American military for whom O'Brien has his greatest disdain. They should have known how to properly execute the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, and the courage to tell their political superiors what it would take to succeed, come what may to their careers.

America's Destruction of Iraq is a detailed exposé of the "military-industrial complex" President Eisenhower warned America of in 1961. Only someone with Michael O'Brien's background and experience, who was at the heart of America's so-called 'reconstruction' of Iraq, can accurately describe America's intervention in Iraq for what it is: a disaster in magnitude equal to the quagmire of the Vietnam War.

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