1. The United States and the Iraq War
... UN) approval, and not being honest to the American people about Hussein's ties to terror. The American People were promised a swift and small American war with Iraq. Then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told the American people military action in Iraq would be swift and not require a full U.S mobilization ... even suggesting those who oppose the war were un-American, weak, or somehow terrorist sympathizers. President Bush used American disdain for Hussein from past events to his advantage. The US had already been at war with Hussein once before, in 1990. President H.W. Bush waged the...
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