Steve Nava

Steve Nava is an anti-war and human rights activist who lives in New York City.

It has been 10 long years since "Shock and Awe" – the opening bombardment of Baghdad – lit up the skies above the Tigris. 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.

Slowly but surely, investigative reporter Murray Waas has been putting together a compelling narrative about how President Bush and his top aides contrived their bogus case for war in Iraq and how they continue to keep most of the press off the trail to this day.

What emerges in Murray Waas's stories is a consistent Bush White House modus operandi: That time and time again, Bush and his aides have selectively leaked or declassified intelligence findings that served their political agenda -- while aggressively asserting the need to keep secret the information that would tend to discredit them.

The aluminum-tube allegation was perhaps the strongest, most concrete piece of evidence the White House had in its campaign to drive the American public into the proper frame of mind to go to war against Iraq.