12/11/07
ES2B Schaffer
Research Essay Final Draft
January 20th 2001. George W. Bush is sworn into the presidential office and our nation is sworn into a state of crisis and debt. Bush is a menace. He has thrown us headfirst into a war for another country when we have our own countries wars to worry about. Hurricane Katrina victims are still homeless and suffering. Our jails abuse prisoners. People who are just thought to be terrorists are thrown into detainment camps. NSA has monitored people’s phones for information. Is this what America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, has come to? Is this what people in this country want?! What you need to want is change. You need to kill the venomous snake that is George bush poisoning the world!
In the year 2000 George Walker Bush beat Al Gore for the presidential election and became our 43rd president. Bush took office in January of 2001. On ther morning of September 11th, 2001, nineteen terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners (American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175) into the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane into each tower (1 WTC and 2 WTC), resulting in the collapse of both buildings soon afterward and extensive damage to nearby buildings. In addition to the 19 hijackers, 2,974 people died as an immediate result of the attacks, mostly civilians. Shortly after September 11, 2001, President Bush addressed a joint session of Congress and announced the new War on Terrorism. On March 19, 2003, U.S. troops invaded Iraq. U.S. troops promptly began searching for the key members of Saddam Hussein's government. These individuals were identified by a variety of means, most famously through sets of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.On 22 July 2003 during a raid by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division and men from Task Force 20, Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay,