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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current
President of the United States of America, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. The
oldest son of former United States President George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush was
elected president himself in the 2000 general election. Previously, Bush had been
serving as the 46th governor of Texas since 1995. Bush was reelected in 2004 as
president.
Bush worked in his family's oil businesses following college. In 1978, he made an
unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives.
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 as Governor in 1994, serving until his successful campaign for
president.
Bush won the presidency in 2000 as the Republican candidate in a close and
controversial contest. Although he lost the popular vote, the Supreme Court
decision in Bush v. Gore gave Bush the required number of electoral votes with a
537-vote margin in the state of Florida.
As President, Bush pushed through a $1.3 trillion tax cut program
and the No Child Left Behind Act, and has also pushed for socially conservative
efforts such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and faith-based welfare
initiatives.
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Bush declared a global War on
Terrorism and ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, destroy
Al-Qaeda and to capture Osama bin Laden in October 2001.
In March 2003, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, asserting that
Iraq was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, that "further
diplomatic and other peaceful means alone [would not] adequately protect the
national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq"
and that the invasion was "consistent with the United States ... continuing to take
the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations,
including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized,
committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001."
Running as a self-described "war president" in the midst of the Iraq War, Bush won
re-election in 2004 and his presidental 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,
even from former allies. His domestic popularity decreased due to the war and other
issues such as the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the NSA warrantless
surveillance controversy and record budget deficits affecting the
administration.
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