Biographer Blasts George W. Bush for Going to War in Iraq

The successes of George W. Bush's two terms as president were vastly overshadowed by the invasion of Iraq, a horrendous decision that sprung from gut instinct and defied reasoned analysis, an acclaimed historian concludes in "Bush," a comprehensive biography that pulls no punches. In what Jean Edward Smith calls a “blunder of historic proportions,'' Bush took down Saddam Hussein in a war predicated on baseless claims that he was stockpiling weapons of mass...

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