The Means to a Chosen End

The Iraq War: a mine field of explosive actions, rhetoric and opinions and yet if one is able to unravel the many layers suffocating the core, one quickly realizes that amongst the numerous cross sections are a dozen slices or so, for which victory or defeat is most dependant.



This book's purpose, its MANDATE, was to uncover these particulars, present the choices available, the accompanying mindset, and the actual actions to be taken depending on the chosen path, with the added emotional and passionate injection where required to drive the ideas and choices of the American people, their government as well as the people and governments of their respective counterparts around the world.



The book thereby achieves its goal, chapter by chapter, by addressing each of the particular variables and the manner in which they can be manipulated in order to create the desired effect. Some of these include:

The conscious decision to Win, Lose or Draw in Iraq

The "right" party and candidate for the office of President of the United States

The "hearts and minds" of Iraqis

Strategies to win the war

The "cost" of war

Choosing to mend the ties

The psychological effect of choosing an end



Ultimately, these actions, if implemented as explained, will lead to the realization and manifestation of those very choices thereby converting the intangible buried deep within the confines of the human psyche, to tangible outcomes within the context of the political, military and social arena that is Iraq.