Pretext for War, a (Lib)(CD)

A Pretext for War, by James Bamford. Books on Tape Unabridged edition, 10 CD's, item number 6436-CD. Read by Robertson Dean. From back cover: "This book says outright what many have merely hinted at: that President George w. Bush knowingly misused the findings of the erroneous and incompetent U.S. intelligence community to provide a pretext for war in lraq. The author homes in on the systematic weaknesses of the intelligence agencies that caused them to ignore the crucial signs leading up to the attacks of 9/11. Incompetence, deception, and misinformation from these agencies simply left the door open for President Bush and his cronies, who were less interested in the capture of Osarna bin Laden and the destruction of his terror network than in following a dubious agenda in Iraq. The missing "weapons of mass destruction" are merely the latest by-product of Bush's co-optation of intelligence for political ends.