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Assignment:

Anna Quindlen's: We've been here before essay, Can you help me identify different types of logical fallacies found in the essay "We've Been Here Before" by Anna Quindlen?

Can you help me understand these quotes and their fallacies plus signification (Thank you):

1. "The most unattractive trait of the American empire is American arrogance, which the president embodies and which this war elevated"

2. "Does anyone doubt that the continued prosecution of this war has to do with the personality of the commander in chief, a man who is stubborn and calls it strength, who wears blinders and calls it a vision?"

3. "If we are such a great nation, why are we utterly incapable of learning from our mistakes? "Americans sons and daughters are dying to protect the egos of those whose children are safe at home"

4. "First there were weapons of mass destruction that were not there and direct links to terrorists who attacked on September 11 didn't exist" "Then it became the amorphous goal of bringing freedom to the Iraqui people, as though liberty were flowers and we were FTD."

5. "In Vietnam, we didn't have the lessons of Vietnam to guide us says David Halberstam, who won the Pulitzer prize for his coverage of the war. "in Iraq we didn't have those lessons. The tragedy is that we didn't pay attention to them."