Compare And Contrast Iraq And War On Terror

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Iraq and War on Terror

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Military blunders seemed to always repeat itself throughout the history. Napoleon once attempted to conquer Russia, but failed. A few hundred years later, Hitler made the same mistake. In 2003, the former President George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq was a mistake, but it was not really on the scale with Napoleon and Hitler. Even though the operation was highly successful, many still doubt that the war was worth the cost for the United States and Iraq. The main reason that the United States invaded Iraq that was assumed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. President George W Bush was worried that these weapons will fall into the hands of terrorists. However, there

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