Yesterday ended the seventh year of the war in Iraq. That is pretty long for a war based entirely on false warnings of “mushroom clouds” and WMD.
To put length of this war in context, here is the durations of past and current wars fought by the United States:
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| 1. | War in Afghanistan | 2001/10 – present | 8.5 years (8 years, 5 months) |
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| 2. | Vietnam War | 1964/08 – 1973/01 | 8.4 years (8 years, 5 months) |
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| 3. | Iraq War | 2003/03 – present | 7 years (6 years) |
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| 4. | American Revolutionary War | 1776/07 – 1783/04 | 6.7 years (6 years, 9 months) |
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| 5. | American Civil War | 1861/04 – 1865/04 | 4 years |
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| 6. | World War II | 1941/12 – 1945/08 | 3.7 years (3 years, 8 months) |
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| 7. | Korean War | 1950/06 – 1953/07 | 3.1 years (3 years 1 month) |
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| 8. | War of 1812 | 1812/06 – 1814/12 | 2.5 years (2 years, 6 months) |
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| 9. | Mexican-American War | 1846/05 – 1848/02 | 1.8 years (1 year, 10 months) |
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| 10. | World War I | 1917/04 – 1918/11 | 1.6 years (1 year, 7 months) |
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| 11. | Spanish-American War | 1898/05 – 1898/12 | 0.7 years (8 months) |
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| 12. | Persian Gulf War | 1991/01 – 1991/02 | 0.1 years (1.5 months) |
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