George W. Bush
My president is George W. Bush, I am doing his backgroud. Georg was born on June 6, 1946 to George H. Bush, and Barbara Bush. He was raised in Texas with his four siblings Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. He attended school in Midland Texas until his family moved to Houston then he attended Kingaid School, a prep school. For the last two years of his high school carrer, he attended an all men boarding school in Massachusetts. Once he graduated high school, he attended Yale for college. In the fall, he went to Haravard Business School and earned the Master of Business Administration. In May of 1968 Bush entered the Texas Air National Guard.
On November 5, 1977 George got married to Laura Welch. George and Laura had two daughters, Jenna and Barbara. George had the nickname of "Bombastic Bushkin" due to his bad drinking habits.
In 1978, Bush ran for House of Representatives against Kent Hance and lost, Bush then returned to the oil industry. George created the Arbusto Energy and changed the name to Bush Exploration.
In 1994 Bush ran for the Governor of Texas and had four themes which were welfare reform, tort reform, crime reduction, and education improvment. Bush ran against Ann Richards and won and became the Governor of Texas. In 1998 Bush won the re-election and becacme the first Governer in Texas history to be elected two terms in a row. In 1999 Bush helped Texas by signing the state law obligating electric retailers. It was in 2000 when Bush ran for presidnet against the democratic John McCain. Bush won the presidency and became the 43rd president for the US.
To be honest, Bush was not one of my favoirte presidents. He started the war against Iraq which lasted for a while and didnt help the US as much. It just seems like all the bad things happened during his presidency.
War in Iraq
The war in Iraq has three different names for it, the Occupation of Iraq, Second Gulf War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom. In January of 2002 Bush began to push attention onto Iraq, which he labeled the "axis of evil" The US got more than 20 nations to join the "Coalition of Willing" to invade Iraq. The invasion of Iraq started on March 20, 2003.
Iraq came to a defeat very fast and on May 1 Bush declared the end to a major combat opearations in Iraq. From 2004- 2007 people were saying that the war was a scale of a civil war in Iraq.
In January of 2005 democratic elections were held in Iraq for the first time in 50 years. In 2007, five years after the invasion, Bush called the debate understadable but still thought that a US presence was crucial.
In 2008 Bush announced the withdrawl of additional American soldiers. Bush described what he saw as as success of the 2007 surge. The war ended in December of 2011.
I think that the war in Iraq was a big deal for our country. I think this war added alot more pressure to us becasue this happened around the time of 9/11.
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