Thomas Powers: "How Bush Got It Wrong" (Essential reading!)

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Thomas Powers: "How Bush Got It Wrong" (Essential reading!)

This is a very long article but it is essential reading to understand how Bush got us into this mess.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17413

How Bush Got It Wrong

By Thomas Powers

Report on the US Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq
by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
July 7, 2004, 511 pp., with deletions

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No tyrannical father presiding over an intimidated household was ever tiptoed around with greater caution than is the figure of President George W. Bush in the Senate Intelligence Committee's fat report of its investigation into the scary stories about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction cited by the President as all the justification he needed for going to war in Iraq.

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