His book not only provides an unsettling account of the mind-boggling challenges involved in trying to bring democracy to Iraq -LRB- ranging from practical matters like setting up an infrastructure for the electoral process to political and philosophical issues dealing with the drafting of a constitution -RRB- but also lays out a thoughtful , pull-no-punches analysis of the missteps and misjudgments by the Bush White House and the Pentagon in the months before and after America 's toppling of Saddam Hussein .