Politics & Media  Beyond The Sixteen Words That Lead to War
John Prados'  book Hoodwinked, The Documents that Reveal How
Bush Sold Us a War uses smoking gun evidence to expose the
administration that knowingly deceived the American public in
the build up to the Iraq War.   Many Americans are vaguely aware
that George W. Bush lied us into a war. Everyone knows about the
infamous 16 words in his State of the Union speech and Valerie
Plame. But few appreciate the full extent to which the
administration brazenly manipulated intelligence, the United
Nations, Congress, the media and ultimately the American people.
The common perception is that Bush was just misled by his
intelligence analysts. That he may have been wrong about
Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction but was only acting
according to what the CIA told him. This is false.  In perhaps
the most comprehensive analysis of the Iraq war deception,
Hoodwinked, The Documents that Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War
(published in 2004), John Prados, an analyst for the