Perhaps the most horrifying acts of anti-American terrorism were the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which killed 2,977 innocent people, took out both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, struck a corner of the Pentagon building, and could have struck the White House if not for the brave passengers downing Flight 93 in rural Pennsylvania. 

Eighteen months later, the Bush Administration invaded Iraq, claiming the likelihood that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq would share weapons of mass destruction with Islamic terrorists such as Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda.