Original sentence: Critics of the war on Iraq argue that this assertion is nothing short of absurd, and that Iraq had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda or the 9/11 attacks, and that the two conflicts are different matters and that Bush's attempt to conflate the two is outright dishonesty.In the aftermath of the attacks, the claim that they had "changed the world forever" became commonplace.Legally it has a separate existence covered by a different congressional resolution, as it is not covered either under the resolution to retaliate for 9/11, and therefore it is not counted as part of the "Global War on Terror" by the US Department of Defense.President Bush and his supporters would later argue that the invasion of Iraq constituted the "central front" of the war on terror, arguing the flypaper theory that terrorists will come to Iraq and be defeated, and that the insurgency is directed or allied with terrorist organizations and state sponsored terrorism.The Bush administration's response was to declare a controversial "War on Terrorism", intended primarily to retaliate against those believed to be responsible, but with a stated long-term goal of preventing the emergence of other terrorist networks by means including economic and military sanctions against states percieved as "harboring terrorists", and increasing global surveillance and intelligence-sharing.The Bush administration's response was to declare a controversial War on Terror, intended primarily to retaliate against those believed to be responsible, but with a stated long-term goal of preventing the emergence of other terrorist networks by means including economic and military sanctions against states percieved as "harboring terrorists", and increasing global surveillance and intelligence-sharing.The most drastic measures this war involved was to be the invasion of Afghanistan
Edited sentence: The Bush administration responded by declaring a "War on Terrorism", primarily to retaliate against those believed to be responsible, but with a stated long-term goal of preventing the emergence of other "terrorist networks" by means including economic and military sanctions against states percieved as "harboring terrorists", and increasing global surveillance and intelligence-sharing