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 be ____ as a means of reducing dissonance.

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The Bush administration added new cognitions by shifting the justification for the war to focus on ousting Saddam Hussein and liberating the Iraqi people, thus reducing dissonance about the initial reason for the war.

According to the Authors of Your Text,when the Bush Administration