![]() As a whole, the book 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 na�vet�, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with id�es fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Perhaps it's that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, that explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper.ĭraper's prodigious reporting has yielded scores of consequential new revelations, from the important to the merely absurd. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few of them are not haunted by it, in one way or another. ![]() ![]() For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. " - The Washington Postįrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reckoning with arguably the most consequential decision in the history of American foreign policy-the decision to invade Iraq.Įven now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. A must-read for all who care about presidential power. "The detailed, nuanced, gripping account of that strange and complex journey offered in Robert Draper's To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq is essential reading-now, especially now. ![]()
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