''Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War'' (2006) is an account of the behind the scenes events and decisions by principal figures of the United States government, that lead to the invasion spearheading

Gulf War II {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Iraq War {{Nobold, {{lang, ar, حرب العراق (Arabic) {{Nobold, {{lang, ku, شەڕی عێراق (Kurdish languages, Kurdish) , partof = the Iraq conflict (2003–present), I ...

in spring 2003. Throughout, the book entertains, and provides evidences for, the notion that key administration officials were set on invading Iraq and that the proffered reasons for the invasion—such as national security threats like the presence of

WMD in Iraq Iraq actively researched and later employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs as required by the United Nations Security Coun ...

—were pretexts rather than actual motivations for going to war. In February 2013, an MSNBC documentary of the same name that marks the 10th anniversary of Gulf War II and hosted by

Rachel Maddow Rachel Anne Maddow (, ; born April 1, 1973) is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. Maddow hosts ''The Rachel Maddow Show'', a weekly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special eve ...

, was produced. David Corn reviewed the documentary and found it "presenting new scoops and showing that the complete story of the selling of that war has yet to be told".

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MSNBC documentary hosted by Rachel Maddow
2006 non-fiction books Iraq War books {{Iraq-War-book-stub