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Bitter Victory for the U.S.

Hello, everyone.  I'd decided to blog about a recent update on the War on Terror. At last, it is over—but at great cost: many of our troops and soldiers have paid the ultimate price, and those who survived have finally come home. With that said, I'd like to express my feelings of regret and disgust over the fact that we'd declared a war that only rewarded us with bloodshed, tears, and sadness that can never be healed.  Everyone in my family feels that President George W. Bush declared war for his own personal gain, to make the former President Bush (his father) proud of him for at least making such an effort to bring peace to our world.  In the end, he only wrought pain on us here in the U.S., and tore open a wound in Iraq that cannot be easily healed. At least, President Obama kept his word and brought the survivors of the War on Terror back onto American soil, and for that, I am eternally grateful, but, again, it was at a great cost. R.I.P. to all those who lost t