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After official US claims about weapons of mass destruction and about a connection to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, became untenable, Bush increasingly emphasized the argument that America’s invasion was justified to remove a tyrant, Saddam Hussein, and thus to free the Iraqi people.

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Does God demand loyalty, like any medieval tyrant?

Eventually, after a period of six months of brutal war and a toll rate of almost 50,000 dead, we managed to liberate our country and to topple the tyrant.

So here it appears as if it's the viewer that's sort of instigating the sense of order among the panels, but it could also be the other way around, that the panels are so stuck within their preconditioned behaviors that they sort of thrust the viewer with the role of a tyrant.

Was Rome’s first emperor a visionary leader who guaranteed his civilization’s place in history or a tyrant who destroyed its core values?

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