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George George Walker Bush is an American politician and W. Bush businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
Bush’s election
George Bush won the election over the Democratic candidate, Al Gore in 2000. This was in part down to his philosophy of ‘compassionate conservatism’: an American political philosophy that stresses using conservative techniques in order to improve the general welfare of society.
9/11 attacks
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which triggered major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and defined the presidency of George W. Bush.
After the 9/11 attack, this doctrine outlined the policy that the The United States had the right to secure itself against countries Bush Doctrine that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups, which was used to justify the 2001 war in Afghanistan. It was used to describe a strategy of "preemptive strikes'' as a defense against an immediate or perceived future threat to the security of the United States. This policy was applied particularly in the Middle East to counter international terrorist organizations and to justify the invasion of Iraq.
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The War in Afghanistan
An International conflict in Afghanistan beginning in 2001 that was triggered by the September 11 attacks.
Osama Bin Laden
Bin Laden was a founder of al-Qaeda and is most well known for his role in masterminding the September 11 attacks. He subsequently became the subject of a decade-long international manhunt. From 2001 to 2011, Bin Laden was a major target of the United States, as the FBI offered a $25 million bounty in their search for him. On May 2, 2011 Bin Laden was shot and killed by US Navy SEALs inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan
The invasion of Iraq
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The US stated that the intent was to remove "a regime that developed and used weapons of mass destruction, that harbored and supported terrorists, committed outrageous human rights abuses, and defied the just demands of the United Nations and the world."
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq (1979–2003) whose brutal rule was marked by costly and unsuccessful wars against neighbouring countries.