his position in SY Coleman, a division of defense contractor L-3 Communications, specializing in missile-defense systems. It was believed his role in the company was in contention with his role in Iraq. The House Appropriations Committee said the report accompanying the emergency spending legislation was "of a magnitude normally associated with permanent bases". However, the United States House of Representatives voted in 2006 not to fund any permanent bases in Iraq. See also Curveball (informant) Energy Task Force Gulf of Tonkin incident Habbush letter 2004 Iraq document leak Iraqi biological weapons program Legality of the Iraq war Legitimacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq Niger uranium forgeries Persian Gulf war rationale Plame affair United Nations Security Council and the Iraq War References Further reading Coletta, Giovanni. "Politicising intelligence: what went wrong with the UK and US assessments on Iraqi WMD in 2002" Journal of Intelligence History (2018) 17#1 pp 65–78 is a scholarly analysis. Cornish, Paul, ed. The conflict in Iraq, 2003 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), articles by scholars.. Isikoff, Michael. and David Corn. Hubris: The inside story of spin, scandal, and the selling of the Iraq War (2006) is journalistic. Jervis, Robert. 2010. Why Intelligence Fails Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War. Cornell University Press. Lake, David A. "Two cheers for bargaining theory: Assessing rationalist explanations of the Iraq War." International Security 35.3 (2010): 7-52. Rapport, Aaron. "The Long and Short of It: Cognitive Constraints on Leaders' Assessments of “Postwar” Iraq." International Security 37.3 (2013): 133-171. Robben, Antonius C.G.M., ed. (2010). Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. . Rosen, Gary, ed. The Right War?: The Conservative Debate on Iraq (2005). External links Tony Blair tells George W Bush they can create 'post-cold war world order' in 2003 note 'The U.S. and Europe, 1945 to Today' by Immanuel Wallerstein U.S. Gaining World's Respect From Wars, Rumsfeld Asserts by Ann Scott Tyson 'The Bush Turn and The Drive for Primacy' by Peter Gowan 'The War Lobby: Iraq and the Pursuit of U.S. Primacy' by Edward Duggan Norman Finkelstein on Iraq War, conversation with Chris Hedges Scarier Than a Neoconserative by Jeet Heer Why Did Bush Go to War in Iraq? by Ahsan I Butt