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Former President George W. Bush defended his administration's push for war in Afghanistan and Iraq Monday morning, after a new poll showed that only a third of veterans from the past decade thought the wars in the Middle East were worth fighting.

"I hope history proves them wrong," Bush said Monday on Good Morning America.  "The only way for there to be peace is for free societies to emerge, and history takes awhile to unfold."

The Pew research study found that only half of post-9/11 veterans believe the war in Afghanistan was worth fighting, only 44 percent say the war in Iraq was worth it, and only one-third say both wars have been worth fighting. A third of troops surveyed said that neither war was worth the costs.

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