Feith, Douglas, War and Decision, Inside The Pentagon At The Dawn Of
The War On Terrorism, New
York: Harper Collins, 2008
Douglas Feith was the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in the Bush
administration. War and Decision, Inside The Pentagon At The Dawn Of The War
On Terrorism is his attempt to answer the critics of the decision to invade
Iraq in 2003. His problem was that he tried to make this argument using what
was known in 2008 when the justifications for war had been disproven. He twists
and turns events and omits others to try to say that Saddam Hussein was a
threat to the United States while blaming the State Department, the Central
Intelligence Agency and Paul Bremer for everything that went wrong. War and
Decision is an amazing example of verbal gymnastics but ironically exposes many
of the problems with the Iraq War.