According to the authors of your text, when the Bush administration received evidence that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq—but after they had already invested troops and money in the war—the administration engaged in

a. a conspiracy to hide the truth from the media.
b. self-justification to make the war a reasonable course of action.
c. an increase in the amount of stereotypes about patriots.
d. the political scandal of the twenty-first century.

Answer: B