To Start a war : : how the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq

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Call Number: 956.704 Dr, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / 20th Century / Draper, Robert
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Idée fixe -- A man in America -- The supervillain -- "Above all, precision!" -- The man who feared too much -- "History has called up" -- Secret lunches -- The murky paper -- The ugly duckling -- The decider, deciding -- Drumbeats -- Ballpark estimates -- The blank check -- A passing phase -- Inspectors -- The magician and the warrior -- Truth and the tellers -- Things fall apart -- Liberator -- A man in the world -- The day after.
Even after more than fifteen years it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. Draper 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 naïveté, craven groupthink, and participants who gamed the process relentlessly. The intelligence failure was comprehensive. The result is a definitive account of a collective process, arriving at evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false, driven by imagination rather than a quest for truth-- and led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing. -- adapted from jacket

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