Recent history is always more pertinent to our lives, even if it is just as dead and gone as history from thousands of years ago. Adolf Hitler graces (or sullies, rather) this list, and is easily the most hated dictator in history, but he's far from the most influential. He did after all, suffer arguably the greatest downfall of any on this list.ฤก0 George W. Number ten on the list is quite fresh in the mind of history. Bush's eight-year, two-term presidency of the U.S.A, the "war on terror" was waged on real land, regardless of how ephemeral of a title it suggested. In retaliation to the September 11th attacks on American soil- the first of its kind since Pearl Harbor- the American Military mobilized en masse to extricate Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, though the link of him to nuclear weaponry or the 9/11 attacks was tenuous at best. Even though the extrication of Hussein was a boon, the war raged through the country before he was ever found. From there, the war spread across the middle east in an effort to eradicate terrorist cells and eliminate Taliban and Al Qaeda presences. It's been nearly 13 years since the war on terror, or more accurately, the war in the middle east, began, and it's become quite the quagmire over that time. Incredibly, so much ground has been covered during the invasions that George Bush lands at 10 as one of the greatest conquerors in history.
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