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Vor 6 Tagen · George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States (2001–09), who led his country’s response to the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and initiated the Iraq War in 2003. He won the presidency in 2000 over Vice President Al Gore in one of the closest and most-controversial elections in American history.
Vor 3 Tagen · On March 17, 2003, the United States and the United Kingdom, which had begun to mass troops on Iraq’s border, dispensed with further negotiations, and U.S. Pres. George W. Bush—seeking no further UN endorsement—issued an ultimatum demanding that Saddam step down from power and leave Iraq within 48 hours or face war; he even suggested that if Saddam did leave Iraq, U.S. forces might still ...
7. Mai 2024 · Cindy Sheehan, American peace activist whose public opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began after her son was killed in Iraq in 2004. Her vigil outside Pres. George W. Bush’s ranch in Texas in 2005 established her as one of the most visible and controversial figures in the antiwar movement at that time.
Vor 3 Tagen · Jeannette L. Nolen The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Guantanamo Bay detention camp, U.S. detention facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, located on the coast of Guantanamo Bay in southeastern Cuba. Constructed in stages starting in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was used to house Muslim militants and suspected terrorists.
2. Mai 2024 · In the George W. Bush administration, neoconservative officials in the Pentagon and the Department of State helped to plan and promote the Iraq War (2003). Criticism Critics contend that, for all their purported idealism and their talk about democracy, neoconservatives have been all too willing to prop up pro-American but deeply undemocratic regimes throughout the world.
Vor 5 Tagen · John G. Roberts, Jr., 17th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Nominated as chief justice by President George W. Bush, he was confirmed by the Senate in September 2005. He was known as an institutionalist who promoted a view of the Court as a neutral arbiter above ideology and partisan politics.
8. Mai 2024 · Jeb Bush, U.S. politician who was governor of Florida (1999–2007) and who sought the Republican Party nomination for president in 2016. His paternal grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a U.S. senator, and both his father and his elder brother—George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, respectively—served as U.S president.
