George W. Bush

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George W. Bush
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Official portrait, 2003
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Born	July 6, 1946 (1946-07-06) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	∞ 5 November 1977 Laura Bush
Children	Barbara Bush (born 1981)]] Jenna Bush Hager
Residence	Prairie Chapel Ranch, Crawford, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University (BA) Harvard University (MBA)
Occupation	Politician, businessman
Website	Official website Presidential Library Presidential Center White House Archives
colspan="2" style="background-color: #B0C4DE; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" | Military service
Nickname(s)	Dubya
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Air Force Texas Air National Guard Alabama Air National Guard
Years of service	1968–1974
Rank	First Lieutenant
Unit	147th Reconnaissance Wing 187th Fighter Wing]
Battles/wars	Cold War
Awards	Air Force Pilot's Badge Outstanding Unit Award National Defense Service Medal

George Walker Bush (born 6 July 1946) was the forty-third President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. Bush was first elected in the 2000 presidential election, and inexplicably reelected for a second term in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States President George Herbert Walker Bush.

Life

Following college, Bush worked in his family's oil businesses before making an unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before returning to politics in a campaign for Governor of Texas. He defeated Ann Richards and was elected Governor of Texas in 1994. Bush won the presidency in 2000 as the Republican candidate in a close and controversial contest, in which he lost the nationwide popular vote, but won the electoral vote. His opponent was Al Gore whose choice for vice president was Joe Lieberman. Lieberman's platform was that he wanted to censor all media and the internet. Lieberman, whose loyalty is only to Israel, would eventually switch political parties.

As president, Bush pushed through a $1.3 trillion tax cut program and the No Child Left Behind Act. In October 2001, after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Bush announced a global War on Terrorism and ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, destroy Al-Qaeda, and to capture Osama bin Laden (none of which were accomplished).

In March 2003, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, asserting that Iraq was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 and that the war was necessary for the protection of the United States. Most people at the team believed it was actually just for oil, but oil prices never dropped and went up inside; the reason for the war was actually to protect the Zionist State in Palestine. Since September 11, 2001 until almost the end of his presidency, the Zionist media avoided any criticism of him as he was their puppet. Only at the end did they allow criticism to elect their next puppet, Barack Obama, essentially a used car salesman.

Running as a self-described "war president" in the midst of the Iraq War, Bush was re-elected in 2004; his presidential campaign against Senator John Kerry was successful despite controversy over Bush's prosecution of the Iraq War and his handling of the economy. After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism. His domestic approval declined from 90 percent (the highest ever recorded by The Gallup Organization) immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks to a low of 26 percent (in a Newsweek poll taken in June 2007), the lowest level for any sitting president in 35 years.

During his presidency, people often compared his likeness to a chimpanzee. However, when they did the same to the next president, Obama, people cried racism. While his presidency is often criticized, of those he elected for United States Secretary of the Treasury – Paul H. O'Neill, Kenneth W. Dam, John W. Snow, Robert M. Kimmitt, and Henry M. Paulson – none appear to be Jews. Before him, Bill Clinton had chosen Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Frank N. Newman, Robert E. Rubin, and then Lawrence H. Summers – the later two are confirmed Jews. After Dubya, Barrack Obama had chosen Stuart A. Levey, Timothy F. Geithner, Neal Wolin, and then Jack Lew – three of which are confirmed Jews.

The White House (biography)

The airborne terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the thwarted flight against the White House or Capitol on September 11, 2001, in which nearly 3,000 Americans were killed, transformed George W. Bush into a wartime president. The attacks put on hold many of Bush’s hopes and plans, and Bush’s father, George Bush, the 41st president, declared that his son “faced the greatest challenge of any president since Abraham Lincoln.” In response, Bush formed a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, sent American forces into Afghanistan to break up the Taliban, a movement under Osama bin Laden that trained financed and exported terrorist teams. The Taliban was successfully disrupted but Bin Laden was not captured and was still on the loose as Bush began his second term. Following the attacks, the president also recast the nation’s intelligence gathering and analysis services, and ordered reform of the military forces to meet the new enemy. At the same time he delivered major tax cuts which had been a campaign pledge. His most controversial act was the invasion of Iraq on the belief that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein posed a grave threat to the United States. Saddam was captured, but the disruption of Iraq and the killing of American servicemen and friendly Iraqis by insurgents became the challenge of Bush’s government as he began his second term. President Bush pledged during his 2005 State of the Union Address that the United States would help the Iraqi people establish a fully democratic government because the victory of freedom in Iraq would strengthen a new ally in the war on terror, bring hope to a troubled region, and lift a threat from the lives of future generations.

Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut while his father was attending Yale University after service in World War II. The family moved to Midland, Texas, where the senior Bush entered the oil exploration business. The son spent formative years there, attended Midland public schools, and formed friendships that stayed with him into the White House. Bush graduated from Yale, received a business degree from Harvard, and then returned to Midland where he too got into the oil business. In Midland he met and married Laura Welch, a teacher and librarian. They had twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, now out of college and pursuing careers. When George W. Bush, at the age of 54, became the 43rd president of the United States, it was only the second time in American history that a president’s son went on to the White House. John Quincy Adams, elected the sixth president in 1824, was the son of John Adams, the second president. While John Adams had groomed his son to be president, George Bush, the 41st president, insisted he was surprised when the eldest of his six children became interested in politics, became governor of Texas, and then went on to the White House. During the early part of the 2000 campaign for the White House, Bush enjoyed a double-digit lead in the polls over his opponent Vice President Al Gore Jr. But the gap closed as the election approached and though Gore finally won the popular vote by 543,895 votes, victory or loss of the presidency hinged on Florida’s electoral votes. That struggle through recounts and lawsuits worked its way to the Supreme Court. In the end Bush won the electoral count 271 to 266. His new administration was focused on “compassionate conservatism,” which embraced excellence in education, tax relief and volunteerism among faith-based and community organizations.

Bush was challenged in his re-election bid in 2004 by Massachusetts Democratic Senator John Kerry. The election was a good contest, but Bush’s contention that the invasion of Iraq had made the world more secure against terrorism won the national political debate. Bush was re-elected with 51 percent to 48 percent. On the inaugural stand, George W. Bush set the theme for his second term: “At this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the words I use, but by the history we have seen together. For half a century, America defended our own freedom by standing watch on distant borders. After the shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet- and then there came a day of fire. There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom – tested but not weary… we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom.”

Honours

In 2013, he won the prestigious humanitarian Improving Human Condition Award for his invasion of Iraq despite people's protests. In 2014, the genocide-promoting group ADL awarded him its highest honor, its "America’s Democratic Legacy Award." The group praised him for establishing the United States' first special envoy to monitor and combat "anti-semitism."

See also

• 9/11 attacks
• Iraq War
• "Angel is next"

External links

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica: George W. Bush
• Encyclopedia.com: George Walker Bush

References

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