White House 'Rush to War' was 'Reckless,' Argues New Book: "In an interview with the Atlantic Monthly, and in a new book ''Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong,' Pollack says that, while the war was not a 'strategic mistake,' as the removal of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s malignant influence from the region provided some good, the Bush administration's 'justifications and explanations for war were at best faulty, at worst deliberately misleading.'
... Pollack's most scathing criticism falls on the Bush Administration and, particularly, its tendency to misstate the facts of the case when trying to persuade the country to go to war. In his eyes, the Administration consistently engaged in "creative omission," overstating the imminence of the Iraqi threat, even though it had evidence to the contrary. "
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