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To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
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91/100Author:
Robert Draper
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Date:
July 28, 2020
From the author of Dead Certain comes a reckoning with arguably the most consequential decision in the history of American foreign policy--the decision to invade Iraq.
What The Reviewers Say
The serial mistruths, mistakes and misperceptions about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction and alleged support for Al Qaeda are laid out in devastating detail in Robert Draper’s authoritative new book.
Draper carefully examines the Bush administration’s illusions about Iraq.
... the detailed, nuanced, gripping account of that strange and complex journey offered in Robert Draper’s To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq is essential reading—now, especially now.
Draper obliquely acknowledges that subsequent events have conspired to make the whole Bush family look better in retrospect, and although this is certainly true - George W. Bush being a stubborn dimwit but not a free-associating sociopathic monster - it can’t possibly save this book from old and not-so-old angers, as Draper must know better than anybody.
