"A decision that I consider to be not only be unwise, but in fact based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us,and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before September 11,2001,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

The cause of the war was the Nazi ideology.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

When the history of the George W. Bush administration is written, one of the most important questions to be addressed will surely be: Why did a President who repeatedly talked about the ideology animating our enemies in this "War on Terror" do so little to wage an effective "War of Ideas" against it?

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In World War II, free nations came together to fight the ideology of fascism, and freedom prevailed and today Germany and Japan are democracies and they are allies in securing the peace.

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