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 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—were pretexts rather than actual motivations for going to war.

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

Authors	Michael Isikoff David Corn
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Crown
Publication date	September 8, 2006
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	480
ISBN	978-0-307-34681-0

In February 2013, an MSNBC documentary of the same name that marks the 10th anniversary of Gulf War II and hosted by Rachel Maddow, 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".^[1]