George W. Bush's Contribution To Mass Destruction Of Iraq

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George W. Bush itself claimed that Iraq had weapons that can lead to a mass destruction, but that was just the strategy that his administration used to sell the war to the citizens. After, that was proved to be a total lie, Iraq did not have those weapons that were supposedly going to be used against the United States, many times and different people of Bush repeated that. One instance of that is when in the editorial board says “January 9, 2003—White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said, “We know for a fact that there are weapons there.” (Editorial Board 1). The White House Spokesmen was not the only one who declared that Iraq have weapons, there were others that even said that there were proves that is was true, what the leaders did was to

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