On the aspect that the majority of the nation did not support the war, “Antigone” fits this very well. When Haemon was trying to convince his father King Creon to not punish and execute Antigone for her rebellion, he states that the whole of Thebes has the same opinion that she “deserves a crown of gold

With all of these similarities and connections, it is no surprise in how things have and are still turning out on the issue of war in Iraq. People still resist the idea of continually occupying it, the truth is still being demanded by the public, and justification is still being sought by the Bush administration. Maybe, with all of these pieces of literature, these moments and events can be avoided. But with a glance at the patterns of history this is highly doubtful.

Re-iterating on the search for truth, the film “Memento” fits this idea very well. The character Leonard is plagued with the disability of not being able to remember events that happened within the time span of 10 minutes. This happened when he was injured from trying to save his wife while she was being murdered. Unfortunately he was not able to remember who killed his wife. So throughout the movie he is on a quest of finding his wife’s killer. But along the way he feels that he is being misled and told lies about what happened. So this search is in a way a search for truth. This is the same as how when the demand for inspectors to search for these supposed weapons of mass destruction that Bush accused Saddam of having was ringing throughout the international community. They wanted to know the truth of these accusations. So in the United Nations, many countries demanded from Saddam the allowance of entrance into the borders of Iraq so they could see if Bush was right or not. But along the way the search was diluted with lies and misconceptions to throw off the inspectors from finding the real truth of what was really going on. Just as the desire of the international community, Leonard wanted the truth.

In “The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri, there were several circles in hell that were designated for different categories of sinners. One such circle that fits the tactics that the Bush Administration used to justify the war in Iraq is the eighth circle or Bolgia Ten. This circle was designated to the four different kinds of falsifiers. The fourth kind of falsifiers is the most similar one to the Bush Administration. This one contained the false witnesses or falsifiers of words. One person that was being punished in that circle was Sinon the Greek, who talked the Trojans into accepting the Trojan horse that contained soldiers that eventually sprung from it and destroyed Troy. He lied to the Trojan king that it was a gift. He said that it was being given as a token of defeat and that the Greeks would retreat and abandon the siege of the beleaguered city. Through these lies the city was destroyed and the inhabitants slaughtered. For this Sinon was sent to hell after he died and punished for his lies. Sinon’s sins resemble the way Bush and his administration justified the war in Iraq. They lied through their teeth by giving Trojan horses to the public that were disguised as fabricated truths of Saddam ha

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