TY - BOOK AU - Woodward,Bob TI - State of denial T2 - Bush At War, Part III SN - 8887715000196 U1 - 956.7 21 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Bush, George W. -- (George Walker), -- 1946- KW - United States -- Officials and employees KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 N2 - A secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006 forecasted a more violent 2007 in Iraq, contradicting the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush. This book examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. In this detailed inside story of a war-torn White House, Woodward answers the core questions: What happened ER -