Failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the inability to prove relevant connections between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda left the president , by the time of his second inaugural address , justifying the war exclusively in neoconservative terms : that is , as part of an idealistic policy of political transformation of the broader Middle East .
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