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A Better Country: Why America Was Right To Confront Iraq; Book Review

// October 21st, 2008 // WAR ON TERROR

Doubtless the war in Iraq has been a subject that when discussed brings about a myriad of emotions ranging from supportive to downright disgust. The sensitive issue is successfully tackled in the book A Better Country: Why America Was Right To Confront Iraq, by Arthur Borden.

Arthur Borden is a corporate attorney and former member of the Signal Corps in the U.S. Army, having served in Europe during World War II from 1943-1945. A graduate of Yale College and Columbia Law School, he has practiced law for over fifty years in addition to teaching corporate law at New York Law School.

His experience in law is evident throughout the book as he makes a strong case for the war in Iraq. Borden gives a detailed account of the events leading up the 2003 invasion of Iraq, illuminating the danger that Saddam posed. Due to partisan bickering the war has been misunderstood by most Americans. Borden traces the true reason of the war back to the Carter Doctrine. In other words, Oil and the preservation of American interests was and is the reason for the war.

From: A Better Country

It was widely understood before the invasion, just as it was widely forgotten afterward, that Saddam held ambitions to dominate the Persian Gulf and by controlling the flow of oil to establish a decisive position for himself in the global economy.”

Borden also reveals how the Democrats used the war to weaken Bush’s reputation and power.

By this date Democrats were ridiculing the President daily, as though they were not themselves familiar with the Carter Doctrine and its history, did not understand the President’s speeches about the risk of Iraqi regional domination, and had not read the Times and the Post in previous years.”

“While Bush had found a window of opportunity to rid the world of Saddam, the Democrats supposed they had found a window for tossing out Bush. Their strategy was to repeat ad nauseam that he had lied about WMD and to keep doubting the war’s necessity on this basis. Their position was that the only excuse for the war was a 9/11 Link and that the President had lied there was such a link. Oil seemed to have dropped out of their vocabulary. As Ted Koppel had noted, it was not something you could say.”

Read A Better Country: Why America Was Right To Confront Iraq. Don’t allow the media and liberals to manipulate your feelings about the war. Borden gives you facts, not talking points.

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A Better Country is on sale at Amazon.

Release Date: August 2008

Publisher: Hamilton Books

Price: $19.95 Paperback

ISBN-10: 0761841067

ISBN-13: 978-0761841067

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