According to the Authors of Your Text, When the Bush

Multiple Choice

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 quickly explained that now the war was focused on ousting Saddam Hussein and liberating the Iraqi people.In essence, the administration may have ________ as a means of reducing dissonance.

A) added new cognitions
B) changed its attitudes
C) changed its behavior
D) used self-persuasion