Cecil Andrus

Cecil Andrus is a military historian, who is writing his second volume on the second U.S. invasion of Iraq.

It has been 10 long years since "Shock and Awe" – the opening bombardment of Baghdad. A decade later, we know far more about the case the Bush administration made to the world to justify its war to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Books like Hubris by David Corn and Michael Isikoff, and British commission and US Senate reports have catalogued the extent to which intelligence was misused to mislead the public--as well as news articles. Murray Waas at National Journal has long proved himself to be the best muckraker in Washington: Take his lastest expose, documenting the Bush administration's machinations to cover up what Bush knew, and when Bush knew it, about Iraq's (lack of) WMD programs-- and exploited false intelligence information to take the nation to war.

"Presidential knowledge was the ball game," says a former senior government official. For that reason; "Murray Waas at National Journal has long proved himself to be the best muckraker in Washington