Framing the Iraq War Endgame War's Denouement in an Age of Terror

by King, Erika G.; Wells, Robert A.

• ISBN13: 9780230608986
• ISBN10: 0230608981
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Bush administration was remarkably successful in dominating the debate over why we had to go to war with Iraq, but it would soon be faced with the more daunting task of winning the monumental rhetorical struggle over how to write the script of the Iraq War endgame. We examine the twists and turns of the discursive battle over the war's denouement as it played out against the backdrop of the war on terror, and we conclude that while Bush failed to win the argument that Iraq was one with our fight against terrorism, his underlying worldview that we must confront terrorist evil through global military engagement remains an important component of Obama adminstration rhetoric.

Author Biography

Erika King is Professor of Political Science at Grand Valley State University. She previously served as Chair of the department of Political Science and Dean of Social Sciences at Grand Valley. Prior to that, she was Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Chatham University. Her teaching and research specialization is mass media and politics and she has published in a variety of scholarly journals.

Robert Wells is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Thiel College. He previously taught at Chatham University. His teaching and research specializations are international relations, American foreign policy, and mass media and politics. He has published in a variety of scholarly journals.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Constructing the Endgame Narrative for a Different Kind of War	p. 1
Dominating the Discourse of Terror	p. 25
Fighting the Central Front in the War on Terror	p. 49
Recasting Iraq as War on Terror	p. 77
Challenging the Iraq Victory Narrative	p. 101
Confronting Chaos in Iraq	p. 125
Changing America's Course in Iraq	p. 157
Envisioning War's Denouement	p. 189
Notes	p. 217
References	p. 237
Index	p. 265
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