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The Bush Administration's Invasion Of Iraq After 9/11
After the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Bush Administration national security team actively debated an invasion of Iraq. The Iraq war started in 2003 and ended in 2011. In the decade since the 9/11, more than two million American military personnel had been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan or both, as of Aug. 30, 2011. About five thousand troops did not return.
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