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Book Review of Brighter than the Baghdad Sun

Brighter than the Baghdad Sun
Brighter than the Baghdad Sun
Author: Shyam Bhatia
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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"Reports had reached State Department diplomats of how one morning Hillary Clinton had burst into the room while members of President Clinton's security team were briefing him about Saddam Hussein.
Throwing a newspaper at her husband that contained some new humiliating revelation about his sexual adventures with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, the first lady slapped him across the face. After a barrage of insults, she stormed out, threatening to end their sham marriage...
By 15 December, 1998, Bill Clinton's critics in the House of Representatives were moving to impeach him. He had a diversion planned. The President would soon launch air strikes against Iraq, in what would become known as Operation Desert Fox. For Clinton, the timing couldn't have been more fortuitous...
On the morning of 16 December, Clinton locked in the orders to fire on Iraq at 3:10 that same afternoon...
What nobody outside the Oval Office knew that morning was that the only real target was the Iraqi desert fox himself. This operation was all about killing Saddam."