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War on Iraq The world of politics has been in upheaval lately as President George W. Bush has been strongly pushing to go to war with Iraq. Bush has seemed almost crazed with this need to go to war with Iraq. As you know, the Gulf War, which was entered by Bush’s father, knocked out the majority of the Iraqi army, but didn’t take out the biggest threat of them all; Saddam Hussein. Since the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam has been pushing our buttons. He often refuses to allow UN Inspectors into his country, or will allow them to come but then hold them there in a hostile manner. President Bush claims that Saddam is hiding nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons from inspectors, and even though he’s shown some credible evidence, nobody seems to believe him. Everybody is in doubt about it because they don’t want to full-heartedly trust the government with something of this caliber. It’s hard to feel terribly anti-war, when even Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, says that we should go to war. He feels like Saddam is doing the same to the Iraqi people as was done to him. “We must do everything possible to prevent Saddam from using his weapons,” said Wiesel.
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