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Analyze the speech by President George Bush April 14, 2004 regarding the war in Iraq in terms of the fallacies that you can detect in the speech

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This solution examines a speech given by President Bush in 2004. Fallacies in speech and logic are pointed out as a means of illustrating common fallacies used by speakers to support their position. The original speech as well as over 750 words of original analysis are included. No outside sources, other than the speech itself are used.

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