"In The Secret History of the Iraq War, Yossef Bodansky offers a new account of the war and its aftermath - a war that was doomed from the start, he argues, by the massive and systemic failures of the American intelligence community. Drawing back the curtain of politicized debate, Bodansky - a longtime expert and director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare - reveals that nearly every aspect of America's conflict with Iraq has been misunderstood, in both the court of public opinion and the White House itself."--BOOK JACKET.