George W. Bush
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flag this descriptionGeorge Walker Bush ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈwɔːkər ˈbʊʃ/ (help·info); born July 6, 1946) served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Bush is the eldest son of President George H. W. Bush, who served as the 41st President, and Barbara Bush, making him one of only two American presidents to be the son of a preceding president. After graduating from Yale University in 1968, and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush worked in his family's oil businesses. He married Laura Welch in 1977 and unsuccessfully ran for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. In a close and controversial election, Bush was elected President in 2000 as the Republican candidate, defeating then-Vice President Al Gore.
Eight months into Bush's first term as president, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks occurred. In response, Bush announced a global War on Terrorism, ordered an invasion of Afghanistan that same year and an invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Iraq's main problem is no longer its violence but its politics.
To continue the same approach doesn’t serve the president well. The only thing that can shape his legacy now is to embrace openness and honesty
Karl is continuing to defend the approach that hurt Bush’s credibility in the first place ... It’s an approach based on political spin and manipulation. And that approach is what led to the selling the Iraq War after it was learned there were no weapons of mass destruction to be found.
He sets up this false choice based on a false premise by trying to imply that if the Bush White House didn’t deliberately mislead the nation into war, then it was completely honest ... I don’t believe that President Bush was deliberately trying to mislead the nation into war. The problem is they came up with this strategy based on political marketing rather than candor.
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