Mike's Reviews > The CIA War in Kurdistan: The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War

This was a good book about the early stages of the Iraq War. The book details his time in Kurdistan and his frustrations with the mission. The author is clearly no fan of Donald Rumsfeld. The book gives insight into the lack of insight that senior policy leaders had about the dynamics of Turkish Kurdish relations. This is something that still exists today. The lack of WMD found in Iraq has long been a subject of debate within the US. Some sources claim they were found and destroyed, or the sources claim they never existed, and it was a false pretext for the war. Faddis explains why this occurred and the reasons behind it. He also tells some of the light-hearted aspects of his tour including the New York Pizza restaurant near the base.

This book is not an overview or the war nor is it even an overview of the Kurdistan campaign. Instead, it is a view of one man's part through his eyes as a key person in the CIA operation. It is well worth the read.