Blood On Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq

by Nicolas J.S. Davies (2010)

The invasion and occupation of Iraq wasn’t just a tragic mistake. It was a crime. From the planning of aggression in 2002 through years of hostile military occupation, the United States systematically violated the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions and virtually every principle of international law and order. In an easily readable and flowing narrative, Davies has firmly placed each aspect of the war within a coherent context of illegal aggression, hostile military occupation and popular resistance, to uncover the brutal reality of a war that has probably killed at least a million people.

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Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War

by Michael Isikoff and David Corn (2007)

Written by veteran journalists, this is the inside story of how President Bush took the nation to war using faulty and fraudulent intelligence. Filled with new revelations, Hubris is a narrative of intrigue that connects the dots between George W. Bush’s expletive-laden outbursts at Saddam Hussein, the bitter battles between the CIA and the White House, the fights within the intelligence community over Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, the startling influence of an obscure academic on top government officials, the real reason Valerie Plame was outed, and a top reporter’s ties to wily Iraqi exiles trying to start a war.