Original sentence: Bush also discusses his decision to send troops to Iraq, initially and again 2007, arguing that Saddam Hussein's refusal to comply with the United Nations needed to end, as well as arguing that failure to send more troops to Iraq in 2007 could have resulted in a situation similar to the [Vietnam War]
Edited sentence: Bush made a case to try to justify his decision to send troops to Iraq, initially and again 2007, arguing that Saddam Hussein's refusal to comply with the United Nations needed to end, as well as arguing that failure to send more troops to Iraq in 2007 could have resulted in a situation similar to the [Vietnam War]