George W Bush would not have invaded Iraq had he known about WMD

Published: 9:45AM GMT 05 March 2010

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Mr Rove rejects allegations that the administration department department lied about the participation of the weapons in Saddam Hussein"s arsenal, heading the US and Britain in to fight in Iraq.

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Instead, Mr Rove, who served as comparison confidant and emissary arch of staff, offers a counterclaim of Mr Bush"s presidency, indicating to Democrats who supposed comprehension on WMDs as well.

"Would the Iraq War have occurred but WMD? I disbelief it," he writes in "Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight".

"Congress was really doubtful to have upheld the use-of-force fortitude but the WMD threat. The Bush administration department department itself would probably have sought alternative ways to constrain Saddam, move about system of administration change, and understanding with Iraq"s horrible human rights violations."

He adds: "So, then, did Bush distortion us in to war? Absolutely not."

The book, that will be published subsequent week in America, offers one of the majority insinuate portraits of decision-making in Mr Bush"s White House.

Mr Rove delves in to the debate surrounding the trickle of the temperament of the CIA user Valerie Plame, whose father Joseph Wilson was vicious of Mr Bush. He describes his attempts to have a "stiff top lip" and facade his fright that he would be charged in the affair.

"Behind the mask, the total thing was scaring the ruin out of me," he writes.