A book written by New York Times reporter Peter Baker reveals the take of a senior official from former President George W. Bush's administration, who is quoted as saying that America went into Iraq to 'find somebody's ass to kick'.
Baker's book titled, 'Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House', reveals some astonishing details about the Iraq War.
The anonymous official claims that the only reason US went into Iraq was to look for a fight adding that Afghanistan was too easy, Huffington Post reports.
The report said that Baker's book details the differences in Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as the duo were on opposite sides of almost every major issue when they left office in 2009.
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