ABSTRACT
In every American administration, the decision-making process brings together several crucial components that determine the country's ultimate course of action in foreign policy. The decision-making process in George W. Bush administration was driven by two main factors, ideology and personality, which determined the way the president and people around him defined a situation and formulated the appropriate response to it. In many ways the decision-making unit in the Bush administration was never truly a coherent unit. Moreover, in regard to certain important decisions, particularly the controversial invasion of Iraq, decision-making process that the decision-making unit (DMU) was supposed to be engaged in was never truly a process. When it comes to the decision to invade Iraq, and other decisions claimed by the Bush administration as part of the War on Terrorism, the American media was exceptionally nonaggressive and nonprobing in questioning the administration's decisions.
