16 Years Later, How the Press That Sold the Iraq War Got Away With It In an excerpt from his new book Hate Inc. , Matt Taibbi looks back at how the media built new lies to cover their early ones ...

After all, George W. Bush left office with an approval rating hovering in the low 30s, and his grandest project was the gigantic catastrophe of the Iraq War, which we're still dealing with and ...

TO START A WAR How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq By Robert Draper. In April 2003, after he had launched the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush stood in the Oval Office reception ...

On the evening of Aug. 5, 2002, President Bush and I met in his residence at the White House to discuss the pros and cons of the Iraq crisis. Momentum within the administration was building toward ...

How power, fear and hubris drove the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In ‘Confronting Saddam Hussein,’ historian Melvyn Leffler closely examines the factors that led to Bush’s decision to go to war ...

The war — along with criminally poor post-war planning on the part of Bush administration officials — also unleashed horrible sectarian strife, led to the emergence of ISIS and displaced more ...

Five books about Iraq, ... Abdullah and Ibrahim are drafted to fight in the Iraq-Iran war of 1980-88; ... How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq. By Robert Draper.

The Bush Administration’s Liability for 269 War Crimes.” He also wrote the foreword for another book, “Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.” Most Read ...

MALONE: On a basic level, many of these people had been involved in the administration of George H.W. Bush. Obviously, during his administration, the first Gulf War had happened, and many of those ...

It was March 2004, a full year since George W Bush and Tony Blair launched the invasion of Iraq, sending the West’s military on what would be a disastrous and deadly war based on concocted ...

I resigned on the day the Bush administration began the 10-year U.S. war on Iraq, March 19, 2003. 22 years later, I don’t regret my decision one bit. President Bush, like the presidents before ...

But the Bush administration’s failure to stabilize Iraq after the quick initial victory birthed an insurgency that led to the loss of 200,000 lives and required 14 years and as much as $1 ...