STATE OF DENIAL: BUSH AT WAR, PART III
by Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster, 560 pp., $30.00

THE ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE: DEEP INSIDE AMERICA’S PURSUIT OF ITS ENEMIES SINCE 9/11
by Ron Suskind
Simon and Schuster, 367 pp., $27.00

STATE OF WAR: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
by James Risen
Free Press, 240 pp., $26.00

Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.
—George F. Kennan,September 26, 2002^[1]

I ask you, sir, what is the American army doing inside Iraq?... Saddam’s story has been finished for close to three years.
—President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to Mike Wallace on Sixty Minutes, August 13, 2006-

In the ruined city of Fallujah, its pale tan buildings pulverized by Marine artillery in the two great assaults of this long war (the aborted attack of March 2004 and then the bloody, triumphant al-Fajr (The Dawn) campaign of the following November), b…

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