Weapons Of Mass Failure

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President Bush sent the military over to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, and Hussein went into hiding so they couldn't find him. But, on December 13, the military found and captured Saddam Hussein. “A team of weapon inspectors led by David Kay concluded that American intelligence agencies had been wrong in asserting that Hussein had possessed weapons of mass destruction.” (Watson 819-820) Strangely, on May 2003, on deck of the USS Abraham, Bush announces “Mission Accomplished “ although the war actually ended December 18, 2011.

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