How did the Iraqi War effect the Presidential election?
After September 11, President Bush and his administration, associated the Iraqi regime with terrorism, and said Iraq had the capacity to produce Weapons of Mass Destruction, which could be used by terrorists to threaten the United States. Therefore, encouraging the U.S. citizens to support Bush and reelect him as President because he would take action by sending troops to Iraq, to find Saddam and other terrorists, while obtaining weapons that could potentially be used against the U.S. However, over time Bush and his administration began to lose support for their action taken in the war.
As of May 2003, approximately 76 percent of the public approved of George Bush's decision to invade Iraq and the way he was handling the situation, while only 20 percent disapproved and 4 percent were undecided. As the war continued, more casualties occurred, money was lost and time seemed to be wasting away, Bush lost more and more of the......
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