BUSH´S WAR

The path to war was a long one. A convenient place to start might be in late 2001, when President Bush's speech writers were asked to make a case for war against Iraq for his January 2002 State of the Union address. In the speech, Bush declared that the United States confronted an “axis of evil,” naming North Korea, Iran, and Iraq, but focused his charge on Iraq and its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaida.

In the subsequent months, America's leaders hammered home these themes. To coordinate this drive to war, in August 2002, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card set up the White House Iraq Group. The members included Karl Rove (senior political adviser to Bush), national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley, Lewis Libby (chief of staff to Dick Cheney), and communications strategist Karen Hughes, among others. Its mission was to organize U.S. strategy on Iraq, and, according to one participant, to “educate the public” about the danger posed by the Saddam Hussein regime.

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