Hubris
Subtitle: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Publisher: Crown; Crown Publishers
Published: September 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780307346810
Subjects: Military Policy; U.S. Federal Executive Bodies; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations; Government - U.S. Government; Military - Iraq War (2003-); Political Science / Government / General; Government - General; International Relations - General; Causes; Iraq War, 2003-; Political aspects; Political corruption; Pride and vanity; United States
Description: Written by veteran journalists, this is the inside story of how President Bush took the nation to war using faulty and fraudulent intelligence. It takes us behind the scenes at the Bush White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress to answer all the vital questions about how the Bush administration came to invade Iraq. Filled with new revelations, Hubris is a narrative of intrigue that connects the dots between George W. Bush's expletive-laden outbursts at Saddam Hussein, the bitter battles between the CIA and the White House, the fights within the intelligence community over Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, the startling influence of an obscure academic on top government officials, the real reason Valerie Plame was outed, and a top reporter's ties to wily Iraqi exiles trying to start a war.--From publisher description.