| Physical Description |
xiv, 480 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-461) and index. |
| Summary |
"As a whole, the book paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised, by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naiveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. The intelligence failure was comprehensive. ... To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective process that arrived at evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false, driven by imagination rather than a quest for truth--evidence to drive a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- -- Military leadership.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Causes.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Decision making.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
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| Alternate Title |
How the Bush Administration took America into Iraq |
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