Review: The lies and mistakes that led us into Iraq, laid out in a new book
by Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times
Jul 29, 2020
4 minutes
"To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq" by Robert Draper; Penguin (496 pages, $30)
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WASHINGTON - After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a blue-ribbon commission and congressional committees uniformly blamed the U.S. national security apparatus for failing to "connect the dots" of evidence that might have exposed Osama bin Laden's plot.
Less than two years later, President George W. Bush launched a ruinous war in Iraq based on a far greater intelligence failure, one that saw the CIA, Pentagon and other agencies effectively make up the evidence that the White House sought to justify invading a country that had not attacked - or even threatened to attack -
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