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George Walker Bush (born geoge bush July 6, 1946), 43^rd President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001 and re-elected as president in the 2004 election. He was the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. A Republican, and a member of the politically influential Bush family, being the eldest son georg bush of the 41st U.S. President, George Bush, a grandson of Prescott Bush, former gearge bush U.S. Senator from Connecticut, and elder brother to Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida.

He was president geore bush during the September 11, 2001 attacks and responded by declaring a global War on Terrorism. In early October 2001 he ordered the invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and destroy Al-Qaeda.^[1] In March 2003, Bush ordered george bus the invasion of Iraq, asserting that Iraq was in violation of UN Resolution 1441 regarding weapons of mass destruction and had to be disarmed by force.^[2] Following georgw bush the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime, Bush committed the U.S. to establishing democracy in geirge bush the Middle East, starting with Afghanistan and Iraq.^[3]

A self-described "war president,"^[4] Bush won re-election in 2004 after an intense and heated election campaign, ggeorge bush becoming the first candidate to win a majority vote in 16 years.^[5] Since his re-election, he has received increasingly george budh heated criticism, even from former allies, on the Iraq War, Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse george busg scandals, as well as domestic issues such as federal funding of stem cell research, Hurricane Katrina, and controversies such as NSA warrantless surveillance activities and the Plame affair. According to polls of job approval rating, his george bush popularity has significantly declined from its record heights after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which contributed to what Bush called the "thumping" of the GOP in the 2006 mid-term elections.^[6]

Early life

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Bush is the eldest son of George H. W. Bush and his wife george herbert walker bush Barbara Bush. His paternal ancestors emigrated from Somerset in the West Country of England in the seventeenth century. Bush's parents moved from Connecticut to Texas when he was two years old. He was raised in george and laura bush Midland and Houston, Texas, with his four siblings, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. Another younger sister, Robin, died in 1953 at the age of three george w bush biography from leukemia.^[7] Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a U.S. Senator, and his father served as U.S. george w. bush president President from 1989 to 1993. George W. Bush is sometimes mistakenly referred to as George Bush, Jr. Since his father goes by George H. W. Bush, george bush pictures this is not applicable. His brother Jeb is a two-term governor of Florida. The Bush family has a long-standing and strong involvement in george h w bush the U.S. Republican Party.

Bush attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and, following in his george bush born father's footsteps, was accepted into Yale University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1968. At the same time, he worked in various Republican campaigns, including his father's 1964 and 1970 Senate campaigns 41st us president george h bush in Texas. As a college senior, Bush became a member of the secretive Skull and Bones george bush quotes society. By his own characterization, Bush was an average student.^[8]

In May 1968, at the height of the ongoing george h. w. bush Vietnam War, Bush was accepted into the Texas Air National Guard. After training, he was assigned to duty in Houston, flying Convair F-102s out of Ellington george bush sunday bloody sunday Air Force Base.^[9] Throughout his political career, Bush has been criticized over his induction and period of service. Critics allege that Bush was favorably treated due to his father's george bush intercontinental airport political standing, and that he was irregular in attendance. Bush took a transfer to the Alabama Air National george bush timeline Guard in 1972 to work on a Republican senate campaign, and in 1974 he obtained permission to end his six-year service obligation six months early to attend Harvard Business School, receiving an honorable discharge.

There are a number of accounts of uss george h.w. bush substance abuse and otherwise disorderly conduct by Bush from this time. Bush has admitted to drinking "too much" in those funny george bush years and described this period of his life as his "nomadic" period of "irresponsible youth".^[10] On September 4, 1976, at the age of 30, Bush was arrested for driving under the daily show george bush influence of alcohol near his family's summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. He pleaded guilty, was fined $150, and george bush audio had his driver's license suspended until 1978^[11] in Maine.^[12] Bush was able to keep his drunk driving arrest a secret throughout his years as governor of Texas.^[13]^[14]

After obtaining an MBA from Harvard University (Bush is george bush international airport the only US President to serve holding a Master of Business Administration degree^[15]), Bush entered the Oil industry in Texas. In 1977, he was introduced by friends to Laura Welch, a young schoolteacher and librarian. After three months of george bush cartoons courting, Bush married Laura and settled in Midland, Texas. His twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, were born in 1981. Bush also left his family's Episcopal Church to george h. bush join his wife's Methodist Church. Today, they are members of the congregation of the Highland Park United Methodist Church, near Dallas.^[16]

In 1978, Bush ran for the george w bush photos U.S. House of Representatives from the 19th Congressional District george bush song of Texas. Facing Kent Hance of the Democratic Party, Bush stressed his energy credentials and conservative values in the campaign. Hance, however, also held many conservative views, opposing gun control and strict regulation; he portrayed Bush as being out of george w. bush jr. touch with rural Texans. Bush campaigned hard and was an effective fundraiser, but lost by 6,000 votes. Hance later world war ii bush george president article states became a Republican and donated money to Bush's campaign for Governor of Texas in 1993.^[17]

Bush returned to the oil industry, becoming a senior partner or chief executive officer of several ventures, such as Arbusto Energy ('arbusto' means bush in Spanish), Spectrum 7, and Harken Energy. These ventures suffered from the general decline of oil prices in life of george w. bush the 1980s that had affected the industry and the regional economy, but he remained active through mergers, acquisitions and consolidations of his oct 11 2006 bush george president article states firms. Bush credits a reinvigorated faith life as helping him abandon alcohol (in 1986), article tools bush george president states and face other personal and professional difficulties. Bush began studying the Bible and Christian philosophy, and participating in church and community study groups. Following a personal meeting and bush doll george voodoo exchange with Reverend Billy Graham, he became a born-again Christian.^[10]

Bush moved with his family to Washington, D.C. in george bush airport 1988, to work on his father's campaign for the U.S. presidency. With colleagues Lee Atwater and Doug Wead, he helped to develop and coordinate george bush denies jesus only way a political strategy for courting conservative Christians and evangelical voters, who were seen as key to winning the nomination and the election. Delivering speeches at rallies and george bush monkey fundraisers, Bush met with representatives of conservative and religious organizations on behalf of his father.

Returning to Texas, Bush purchased a share in the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in April 1989, where he served as managing general partner of the george w. bush cartoon Rangers for five years. He was active in the team's media relations and in securing the construction of a new stadium, which opened in 1994 as portraits of george w. bush The Ballpark in Arlington. Bush actively led the team's projects and regularly attended its games, often choosing to sit in the open stands with fans. anti george bush Bush's role with the Rangers gave him prominent media exposure and attention, as well as garnering public, business and political support. The Rangers were mostly successful while Bush george bush airport parking was a leader of the organization. During his tenure, the Rangers george bush middle finger acquired Hall-of-Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, who was popular with the fans during the last years of george bush speech his career. The team nearly won its first division title in 1994, before a strike shortened the season. In 1989, Bush presided during the trade of the eventually famous Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. The eventual sale of Bush's share in the Texas Rangers brought him over $15 george w. bush pictures million from his initial $800,000 investment.

George W. Bush is the first president who was vice president for george bush senior to have run a marathon. Before running for governor of Texas he completed the 1993 Houston Marathon in 3:44:52 for a president george w bush pace of about 8:36/mile. He had been running since he was 26, and before taking office, ran 15 uss george h w bush to 30 miles a week.^[18]

He is often referred to by the nickname "Dubya", playing on a stereotyped and generalized Southern pronunciation of the letter george bush pics W.

Governor of Texas

With his father's election in 1988, speculation had arisen amongst Republicans that Bush pictures of george bush would enter the 1990 gubernatorial election, but this was offset by Bush's purchase of the Rangers baseball team and personal biography of george w. bush concerns regarding his own record and profile. Following his success as owner and manager of the Rangers, Bush declared his candidacy for the 1994 election, george bush cartoon even as his brother Jeb first sought the governorship of george bush jr Florida. Winning the Republican primary easily, Bush faced incumbent Governor Ann Richards, a popular Democrat who was considered the easy favorite, given Bush's lack of political credentials.

Bush was aided in his campaign by a close george w bush and yale coterie of political advisors that included Karen Hughes, a former journalist who was his communications advisor; John Allbaugh, who became his campaign manager, and Karl Rove, a personal george h.w. bush friend and political activist who is believed to have been a strong influence in encouraging Bush to enter the election. Bush's aides crafted a campaign strategy that attacked Governor Richards' record i hate george bush on law enforcement, her political appointments, and her support pop ups george bush crate barrel of liberal political causes. Bush developed a positive image and message with themes of "personal responsibility" and "moral leadership". His campaign focused on issues such as education (seeking more accountability for schools over student performance), crime, deregulation of george bush jack in the box toy the economy, and tort reform. The Bush campaign was criticized for allegedly using controversial methods to disparage Richards. Following an george bush speeches impressive performance in the debates, however, Bush's popularity grew. He won with 52 percent against Richards' 47 percent.^[19]

As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education george w. bush jokes funding, set higher standards for schools, and reformed the criminal justice system. Under his leadership, Texas executed 152 prisoners, more than under any other governor in modern American campbell brown and george bush history; critics such as Helen Prejean argue that he failed to give funny pictures of george bush serious consideration to clemency requests.^[20] School finance was considered a sensitive issue at the time by politicians and the press. The state financed its school george bush parody system through property taxes. Seeking to reduce the high rates to benefit homeowners while increasing general education funding, Bush sought to create business taxes, but faced vigorous opposition from his own party and the private sector. Failing to obtain political consensus for numa numa george bush his proposal, Bush used a budget surplus to push through a $2 billion tax-cut plan, george bush foreign policy which was the largest in Texas history and cemented Bush's credentials as a pro-business fiscal conservative.^[21]

Bush also pioneered faith-based welfare george h bush programs by extending government funding and support for religious organizations providing social services such as powerpoint presentations about george w. bush education, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, and reduction of domestic violence. Governor Bush signed a memorandum on April 17, 2000 proclaiming June 10 to be Jesus Day in Texas, a day where he "urge[d] all Texans to answer the call to serve those in successes of george w. bush need."^[22] Although Bush was criticized for violating the george bush audio clips constitutional separation of church and state ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."), his initiative was popular with most people across the state, especially religious and social conservatives.

In 1998, Bush won re-election in george bush skull bones a landslide victory with nearly 69% of the vote, becoming the first Texas governor to be elected george w. bush biography for two consecutive four-year terms (before 1975, the gubernatorial term of office was two george w. bush photos years).^[23]

2000 presidential election

Road To Campaign

As one of the most popular governors in the nation, Bush was seen in the media and the Republican Party as a strong potential contender for company owned by george jeb bush the U.S. presidential election in 2000. Bush had personally envisioned running for george bush binoculars the presidency since his re-election, and upon announcing his candidacy, he immediately became the Republican front-runner and raised the largest amount in campaign funds.

Bush labeled himself a "compassionate conservative," a term coined by University of Texas professor Marvin Olasky, and george bush hates black people his political campaign promised to "restore honor and dignity to the White House". Bush proposed lowering taxes in response to a projected surplus, while promising a balanced budget. He supported participation of george bush impersonator religious charities in federally george bush senior funded programs, and promoted education vouchers, national education reform, oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and structural changes to the United States armed forces. Bush's foreign policy campaign platform supported a stronger economic and political relationship with Latin America and george p bush especially Mexico, free trade and reduced involvement in "nation-building" and other minor military engagements indirectly related to U.S. interests. Bush also pledged to picture of george w. bush expand the National Missile Defense initiative and to reform Social Security and Medicare.

Campaign

Bush's campaign was managed by Rove, Hughes and Albaugh, as well as by other political associates from Texas. stupid george bush He was endorsed by a majority of Republicans in 38 will ferrell george bush state legislatures. After winning the Iowa caucus, Bush was handed a surprising defeat by U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona in the New Hampshire ad agency bush election george primary. During his campaign, Bush was criticized for visiting the controversial Bob Jones University, which bore a reputation for a bias against Catholicism and a ban on interracial dating.^[24] Bush then won the South Carolina primary, severely crippling the biography of president george w bush momentum McCain had picked up with his win in New Hampshire. McCain countered by winning in Michigan. However, McCain inexplicably first foreign travel george bush decided to criticize Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell just before the Virginia primary, stirring the ire of religious conservatives. Bush went on to win the Virginia Primary foreign policy of the george w bush administration and then, a week later, he captured nine of thirteen Super Tuesday state primaries, effectively clinching the Republican nomination. He chose Dick george bush + german chancellor + massage Cheney, a former U.S. Representative and Secretary of Defense, as his running mate. His campaign was endorsed by prominent Republicans such as Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell, who assumed roles george bush and bill clinton as advisers on issues of national security and foreign relations. While stressing his george bush doesn't like black people successful record as governor of Texas, Bush's campaign attacked the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Al Gore, george bush talking about the world trade center over gun control and taxation. Bush criticized the Kyoto Protocol(although in 1998 the Senate vote to participate in the treaty was 0 for and 95 against), championed by Gore, citing the decline of the industries in george h.w bush the Midwestern states, such as West Virginia, and resulting economic hardships.

In the televised Republican presidential george w bush in the new york times debate held in Des Moines, Iowa on December 13, 1999, all of the participating candidates were asked "What political philosopher or thinker do you most identify with and why?" Unlike the george w bush mission accomplished photo other candidates, who cited former Presidents and other political figures, Bush responded, "Christ, because He changed my heart." Bush's appeal to religious values is believed to have aided his election, since those who said they "attend church weekly" impeach george bush gave him 56% of their vote uss george bush in 2000 (and 63% of their vote in 2004).^[25]

Election day

On election day, November 7, 2000, Bush won when did george w. bush become governor of texas key midwestern states such as Ohio, Missouri, and Arkansas. He also clinched Gore's home state of Tennessee, New Hampshire, and the erstwhile Democratic bastion of West Virginia. Television networks initially called the state of Florida where was george w. bush born for Gore, then withdrew that projection and later called the state, along with the entire election, for Bush. Finally, it was declared that biography of george h. w. bush the results were too close to call. Sometime after the networks reported that Bush had won Florida, Gore conceded the election, and then rescinded that concession less than one hour later. The vote count, which favored Bush in preliminary bush george job nose tallies, was contested over allegations of irregularities in the voting and tabulation processes. Because of Florida state law, a state-wide faith, certainty and the presidency of george w. bush machine recount was ordered. Although it narrowed the gap, the recount still left frank caliendo george bush Bush in the lead. Eventually, four counties in Florida which had large numbers of presidential undervotes began a manual hand recount of ballots. On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that george bush 9/11 speech every county with a large number of undervotes would perform a hand recount. On December 9, in the Bush v. Gore case, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the statewide hand recount. The machine recount george bush biography showed that Bush had won the Florida vote - making it the 30th of the 50 george bush dui states he carried.^[26] Despite having lost the nationwide popular contest by more than half george bush in cia a million votes,^[27] he won 271 electoral votes to Gore's 266. This made him the first President elected despite a popular vote loss since Benjamin Harrison in 1888.^[28]

First term

President George W. Bush was george bush video regarded by his political opponents and many in the media as lacking a popular mandate, having lost the popular vote. Upon assuming office, george bush whatever Bush appointed Andrew Card as his Chief of Staff, Karl Rove as his political advisor and Karen Hughes as White House communications director. He appointed Colin george h. w. bush insurance company Powell as Secretary of State, Paul O'Neill as Secretary of the Treasury, and Donald Rumsfeld as the Secretary of Defense.

His appointment of former Senator John Ashcroft as Attorney General was intensely criticized by Democrats because of Ashcroft's opposition of abortion and support for social and religious conservative george w bush mexico border video causes concerning gay rights and capital punishment. Despite this, Ashcroft was confirmed, and Bush was lauded by conservatives.

Domestic policy

On his first day in office, Bush moved to block federal aid to foreign groups jib jab george bush that offered counselling or any other assistance to women in obtaining abortions.^[29] Bush also successfully pushed for the pic's of george bush Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, enacted in 2003 with some bi-partisan support but criticized by pro-choice groups as incursive on legalized abortion stark terms that george woodward bush book kerry iraq rights.

Days into his first term, Bush announced his commitment to channeling more federal aid to faith-based service organizations. Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives what university did george w. bush graduate from to assist faith-based service organizations. Critics claimed that this was an infringement of the separation of church and state.^[30]^[31]

Following a national controversy over the recognition of same-sex marriages in San Francisco and Massachusetts, Bush announced his opposition to the recognition of same-sex marriage, but supported allowing states to recognize civil unions. He endorsed the Federal Marriage Amendment to the United States birthday of george w bush Constitution, which would define marriage as a union between george bush college financial aid one man and one woman. This amendment failed to gain enough votes to pass.

Bush staunchly opposes euthanasia. He supported Ashcroft's decision to file suit against the voter-approved Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which was ultimately george bush coloring page decided by the Supreme Court in favor of the Oregon law.^[32] As governor of Texas, however, Bush had signed a law which gave hospitals the authority to take terminally ill patients off of life george bush doesn't care about black people support against the wishes of their spouse or parents, if the doctors deemed it medically appropriate.^[33] This george bush family became an issue in 2005, when the President signed controversial legislation forwarded and voted on by only three members of the Senate to initiate federal intervention george bush is the antichrist in the court battle of Terri Schiavo.^[34]

Bush's domestic agenda carried forward themes of george bush photos increased responsibility for performance from his days as Texas governor, and he worked hard to lobby the adoption of the No Child Left Behind Act, with Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy as chief george bush picture sponsor. The legislation aims to close the achievement george bush turnpike gap, measures student performance, provides options to parents with students in low-performing schools, and targets more federal funding to low-income schools. NCLBA has been a source of ongoing controversy. Critics argue that Bush has underfunded his george w bush iq own program, and Kennedy himself has claimed: "The tragedy is that these long overdue reforms are george w bush quotes finally in place, but the funds are not."^[35] Many educational experts are critical of the reforms in question, claiming that NCLB allows some students to flee failing public schools george w. bush drunk instead of improving those schools.^[36] Others contend that NCLBA's focus on "high stakes testing" and quantitative outcomes is counterproductive.^[37] Bush increased how old is george bush funding for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in his first years of office, and created education programs to strengthen the grounding in science and mathematics for American high school students. However, funding for pictures of george w. bush NIH failed to keep up with inflation in 2004 and 2005, and was actually cut in 2006, the first pop ups george bush crate and barrel such cut in 36 years.^[38]

Bush promoted increased de-regulation and investment options in social services, leading Republican efforts to pass the Medicare Act of 2003, which added prescription drug coverage president george bush military record to Medicare and created Health Savings Accounts, which would permit people to set aside a portion of their Medicare tax cartoon george bush to build a "nest egg". The elderly group, AARP worked funny george bush clips with the Bush Administration on the program and gave their endorsement. Bush said the law, estimated to cost US$400 billion over the first 10 years, would give the elderly "better choices and more control over their health care".^[39]

In the wake of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, george bush bloopers on January 14, 2004 Bush announced a major re-direction for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.^[40] Known as the Vision for Space Exploration, it calls for the completion of the george bush political cartoons International Space Station by 2010 and the retirement of the space shuttle while developing a new spacecraft called the Crew george bush with vladimir putin Exploration Vehicle under the title Project Constellation. The CEV would be used to return American astronauts to the Moon by 2018.

President Bush supports stem cell research, but only to the extent that human embryos are not destroyed in order to harvest additional george w bush health care plans stem cells.^[41] His supporters see this as a principled stand for george w bush speech the rights of human embryos; one to which the President has remained true despite heavy criticism. In 2004, more than two hundred Republican and Democratic members of Congress sent President Bush a letter^[42] asking him to change the August 2001 Executive george w. bush stencils Order “that has crippled stem cell research in our country.”^[43] On February 27, 2004, after expressing disapproval of administration german chancellor + george bush policy, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn was removed from the President's Council on Bioethics, prompting allegations that President Bush had violated the Federal photos of george w. bush Advisory Committee Act of 1972, which requires committees to be “fairly balanced in pictures of george w bush terms of the points of view represented.” In response to this and other controversies, the Union of Concerned Scientists released a statement entitled Scientific Integrity in Policy Making: Further Investigation of the Bush Administration’s Misuse of Science.^[44] Meanwhile, the National presidency of george bush mars orbit Right to Life Committee has commended President Bush’s veto of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, a bill that would have allowed the destruction of will ferrell as george bush human embryos created via in vitro fertilization.^[45]

Bush signed aircraft carrier george bush the Amber Alert legislation into law on April 30, 2003, which was developed to quickly alert the general public about child abductions using various media sources.^[46] On July 27, 2006 Bush signed the article about george bush Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act which establishes a national database requiring all convicted sex offenders to register their current residency and related details on a monthly instead of the previous yearly basis. company owned by george + jeb bush Newly convicted sex offenders will also face longer mandatory incarceration periods.^[47]

Economic policy

Facing opposition in Congress, Bush held town hall-style public meetings across the nation to increase public support for his plan for a $1.3 trillion tax cut. george bush funny pics Bush and his economic advisers argued that unspent government funds should be returned to taxpayers. With reports of the threat of george bush health care plan recession from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Bush argued that such a tax cut would stimulate the economy and create jobs. In the end, five Senate Democrats crossed party lines to join Republicans in approving Bush's george bush imagine $1.35 trillion^[48] tax cut program — one of george bush insider trading the largest in U.S. history.

During his first term, Bush sought and obtained Congressional approval for two additional tax cuts: the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002 and the george bush plan for health care Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. These acts increased the child tax credit and eliminated the so-called george bush ranch "marriage penalty." Arguably, cuts were distributed disproportionately to higher income taxpayers through a decrease in marginal rates, but the change in marginal rates was greater for those of george w bush and foreign policy lower income, resulting in an income tax structure that was more progressive overall. Complexity was increased with new categories of income taxed at different rates and new deductions and credits, however; at the same time, the george w bush personal website number of individuals subject to the alternative minimum tax increased since it had remained unchanged.

Bush's imposition of a tariff on george w bush pictures imported steel and on Canadian softwood lumber was controversial in light of his george w bush tax rebate advocacy of free market policies in other areas; this attracted criticism both from his fellow conservatives and from nations affected. The steel tariff was later rescinded under pressure from the houston george bush intercontinental airport World Trade Organization. A negotiated settlement to the softwood lumber dispute was reached in April 2006, and the historic seven-year deal was finalized on July 1, photos of george w bush 2006.

Foreign policy

The Bush administration withdrew US bio of george w bush support for several international agreements, including the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty(ABM) with Russia. It pursued a december 122c 1972 dallas morning news george bush national missile defense which was previously barred by the ABM treaty and was never ratified by Congress.^[49] Bush publicly condemned Kim Jong-Il dumb george bush quotes of North Korea, naming North Korea one of three states in an "axis of evil," and saying that "[t]he United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us education reform george bush on with the world's most destructive weapons."^[50] Within months, "both countries had walked away from their funny george bush video respective commitments under the U.S.-DPRK Agreed Framework of October 1994."^[51] Bush also boldly george bush -- dumb and dumber expressed U.S. support for the defense of Taiwan following the stand-off in March 2001 with the People's Republic of China over the crash between an EP-3E American spyplane and a Chinese air force jet, leading to the detention of U.S. personnel. In 2003-04, Bush authorized U.S. military intervention george bush antichrist in Haiti and Liberia to restore order and oversee george bush comedy video a transition to democracy.

Bush emphasized a "hands-off" approach to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in wake of rising violence and the alleged failure of the Clinton Administration's efforts to negotiate. Bush denounced Palestinian leader Yasser george bush flash Arafat for his support of the violence and militant groups. But prompted by European leaders, he became the george bush funnies first American President to embrace a two-state solution in which an independent Palestine would exist side-by-side with Israel. Bush sponsored dialogue between Prime george bush head Ministers Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas but continued his boycott of Arafat. Bush also supported Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan, and lauded the democratic elections held in Palestine following Arafat's george bush india death.

In his State of the Union Address in January 2003, Bush outlined a five-year strategy for global emergency AIDS relief, george bush screensaver the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief. Bush announced $15 billion for george bush shootout this effort—$3 billion per year for five years—but requested less in annual budgets, though some members of Congress added amendments to increase the requested amounts. The emergency relief george bush stupid effort is led by U.S. Ambassador Randall L. Tobias, former CEO of Eli Lilly and Global AIDS Coordinator at the Department of State. At the time of the speech, george bush video clips funny $9 billion was earmarked for new programs in AIDS relief for the 15 countries most affected by HIV/AIDS, another $5 billion for continuing support of AIDS relief in 100 countries where the U.S. george h. w. bush + insurance company already had bilateral programs established, and an additional $1 billion towards the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Almost one quarter of the $15 billion went to religious groups george w. bush popularity decline george w. bush quotes that tend to emphasize sexual abstinence over condom use.^[52] This budget represented more money contributed to fight AIDS globally than all other donor countries combined.

Bush condemned the attacks by militia forces on the people of Darfur, and denounced the killings in mad tv george bush Sudan as genocide.^[53] Bush said that an international peacekeeping presence was critical in Darfur, picture of george bush but opposed referring the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court.

Wars

The September 11 terrorist attacks were a major turning point in Bush's presidency. Bush was visiting an elementary school president george w bush media relations in Florida when Chief of Staff Andrew Card informed him that a plane victor ashe + george bush had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. Following news of a second collision, Bush remained with the class for seven minutes while they finished reading a story. He then flew to air bases in Louisiana and Nebraska before returning to aircraft carrier george h w bush Washington, D.C. in the late afternoon. That evening, he addressed the nation from the Oval Office, bush george promising a strong response to the attacks but emphasizing the need for the nation to come together and comfort the families of the victims. On September 14, he visited the World Trade Center site, meeting bush george foreign policy with Mayor Rudy Giuliani and bush george foreign policy candidate firefighters, police officers and volunteers. In a moment captured by press and media, Bush addressed the gathering via megaphone from atop a but what about george bush certainly, heap of rubble:

In a September 20, 2001 speech, President Bush condemned Osama bin download george bush speech Laden and al Qaeda, and issued the Taliban regime in Afghanistan an ultimatum endless love tony blair and george bush to "hand over the terrorists, or ... share in their fate."^[54]

Afghanistan

On October george bush - dictator comments 7, 2001, U.S. and British forces initiated bombing campaigns that led to the November 13 arrival of Northern Alliance troops in Kabul. By December 2001, george bush assassination the UN had organized both the Bonn agreement, which instated the Afghan Interim Authority chaired by Hamid Karzai, and the ISAF, a multinational fighting force whose numbers and territory have george bush bashing since steadily increased.

In 2003, after it became apparent that the Taliban was amassing new funds and recruits, NATO george bush drunk assumed ISAF control.^[55] By 2005, NATO had moved into western and southern parts of the country, and in 2006, requesting increased international cooperation, it announced expansion of operations to eastern Afghanistan.^[56]^[57]

Large-scale offensives such as the 2006 Operation Mountain Thrust had limited success against a Taliban insurgency george bush high school larger, fiercer, and better organized than expected.^[58]^[59]^[60] Bin Laden and the Afghan leader of the Taliban, Mohammed Omar, remained at large as of November 2006. In October 2006, NATO broadened security george bush library operations to include every province in the country. george bush photo Foreign troops in the region numbered more than 41,000 in October 2006.^[61] In a September, 2006 address to the UN, President Bush pledged his continuing support for the Afghan people: "We'll help you defeat these enemies and build a free Afghanistan that will george bush sr. biography never again oppress you, george bush the antichrist or be a safe haven for terrorists."^[62]

Iraq

Following the overthrow of the Taliban, President Bush also promoted urgent action in Iraq, stating that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and that in the post george bush weapons of mass 9/11 world it was too dangerous to george prescott bush allow unstable regimes to possess weapons that could "potentially fall into the hands of terrorists." Bush argued that Saddam, through his continued violation of the UN Cease Fire Agreement and UN Security Council george w bush being sworn in as president Resolutions 687, 688, 707, 715, 986, 1115, 1134, 1137, 1284, and 1373, was a threat to U.S. security, destabilized the Middle george w bush bio East, inflamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and financed various terrorist organizations. Central Intelligence Agency reports asserted that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire nuclear material, had not properly accounted for Iraqi biological weapons and chemical weapons material in violation of U.N. sanctions, george w bush college education and that some Iraqi missiles had a range greater than allowed by george w bush laura marriage the UN sanctions.^[63]

Bush urged the United Nations to enforce Iraqi disarmament mandates, precipitating a diplomatic crisis. On November 13, george w. bush cowboy 2002, under UN Security Council Resolution 1441, Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei led UN weapons inspectors in Iraq. There was controversy over the efficacy of inspections and lapses in Iraqi george w. bush jokes cartoons compliance. UN inspection teams departed Iraq upon U.S. advisement given four days prior to the U.S. invasion, despite their requests for more time to complete their tasks.^[64] The U.S. initially sought a UN Security Council resolution authorizing the use of military force pursuant to Chapter VII of george w. bush speeches the United Nations Charter.^[65] Upon facing vigorous opposition from several nations (primarily France and Germany), however, the U.S. dropped the bid how much dose george w. bush get paid for UN approval and began to prepare for war; Benjamin Ferenccz, a former chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials i love george bush website argued that for these actions Bush, with his Administration, could be prosecuted for war crimes.^[66] Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, as well as leaders of several nations made similar office of george bush sr. statements, implying that the attack constitutes a war crime.^[67] The war effort was joined by more than 20 other nations (most notably the United Kingdom) who were designated osama bin laden george bush childhood friends the "coalition of the willing".^[68]

The invasion of Iraq commenced on March 20, 2003, ostensibly quote from george w bush to pre-empt Iraqi WMD deployment and remove Saddam from power, and was completed on May 1, 2003 when U.S. forces took control of Baghdad. The success of U.S. operations increased Bush's popularity, but the U.S. forces would be challenged by uss george h. w. bush public disorder, as well as increasing insurgency led by pro-Saddam and Islamist groups. The Bush Administration was assailed in bush business george harvard school subsequent months following the report of the Iraq Survey Group, which, apart from a few stockpiles, did not find the large quantities of weapons that the regime was believed to email george bush possess. On December 14, 2005, while discussing the WMD issue, Bush stated that "It is true that much of the intelligence turned funny mpegs of george bush out to be wrong."^[69] Bush would george bush arms up nevertheless remain unwavering when asked if the war had been worth it, or whether he would have made the same decision if he had known more. U.S. george bush bloody sunday efforts in Iraq would become the centrepiece of Bush's expressed vision to promote democracy as a means to discourage and defeat terrorists, george bush comedy by removing radical regimes and fostering social and economic development. However a 2006 National Intelligence Estimate (a consensus report of the heads of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies) asserted that the Iraq war had increased Islamic radicalism and worsened the george bush election window stickers terror threat.^[70] Bush and his top officials told early October 2006 that the United States must press george bush funny video on with war in Iraq. They accuse critics, including some Democrats, who call for a U.S. troop pullout or a timetable for withdrawal, of advocating a policy of 'cut-and-run'.^[71]

On October 21, 2006, george bush harvard business school transcript Bush held a video teleconference with Vice President Cheney and military commanders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, to discuss the Iraq War. Bush admitted that there george bush humans and fish were strategic mistakes made in regards george bush is an idiot to the stability of Iraq and would modify plans but not the overall strategy.^[72]^[73]

On November 28, 2006, facing mounting criticism for his Iraq war policy, Bush told the NATO Summit 2006 in Latvia that "We'll continue to be george bush john hill flexible, and we'll make the changes necessary to succeed. But there's one thing I'm not going to do: I'm not going to pull our george bush jr. pictures troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete."^[74]

Campaign george bush singing sunday bloody sunday for re-election

Bush commanded broad support in the Republican Party and george bush soundboard did not encounter a primary challenge. He appointed Kenneth Mehlman as campaign manager, and the campaign political strategy was devised by Karl Rove.^[75] Bush outlined a 2004 agenda that george bush swearing included a strong commitment in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act, making george bush waving the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent, cutting the budget deficit in half, promoting education, tort reform, social security and national tax reform. Bush emphasized his social conservatism by arguing for george w bush caricatures portraits photos the Federal Marriage Amendment. In most of his speeches, Bush also stressed a vision and commitment for spreading freedom and george w bush hats and shirts democracy across the world.

Having had great success at fundraising, the campaign began running television and radio advertisement campaigns across the nation against Democratic candidates, including Bush's emerging opponent, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. george w bush window stickers Kerry and other george w. bush being sworn into presidentcy Democrats attacked Bush on the conduct of the war in Iraq, perceived excesses of the USA PATRIOT Act and for allegedly failing to stimulate the economy and job george w. bush decline growth, as well as controversies surrounding Bush's service in the National Guard. Bush emphasized his leadership in war and national security challenges, evoking the patriotism and passion aroused by the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Bush campaign george w. bush middle name portrayed Kerry as a staunch liberal who would raise taxes, increase the size of government, and fail to oppose a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The Bush campaign continuously criticized Kerry's allegedly george w. bush whatever contradictory statements on the war in Iraq, and claimed Kerry lacked the decisiveness and vision necessary for success in the war on terrorism. Popular politicians is george w bush a keynesian such as Rudy Guiliani, John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger, matt lauer george bush and conservative Democrat Zell Miller campaigned actively for Bush, who traveled across the country delivering speeches at three to four different locations on most days. The news articles george bush international affairs campaign organized a large group of volunteers and focused its efforts on swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. Bush carried 31 of 50 states for opinions on president george w. bush a total of 286 Electoral College votes.

Cabinet

Second washington and george w bush term

Bush was inaugurated for his second term on January 20, 2005. The oath of office was administered by articles about george w. bush Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Bush's inaugural address centered mainly on a theme of spreading freedom bio president george w. bush and democracy around the world:

We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of breaking u.s military moves to arrest george w bush liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in brian williams & george bush on katrina all the world...The great objective of ending tyranny is the concentrated work of generations. The difficulty of the task is no excuse for bush foreign george policy avoiding it....From the viewpoint of centuries, the questions that come to us are narrowed and few. Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cat toy george bush cause?

For his second term, Bush assembled what is regarded as one of the most diverse U.S. cabinets in history, with the appointments of the first dumb & dumber + george w. bush Hispanic American U.S. Attorney General and Commerce Secretary, as well as making Condoleezza Rice the dumb george bush first African American woman to head the U.S. State Department. Bush retained Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whose dismissal had been demanded by many in the U.S. Congress. During a visit evil george bush to the Republic of Georgia on May 10, 2005, Vladimir Arutinian attempted to assassinate Bush. Arutinian threw a grenade which eventually landed in the large crowd some 18.6 meters (61 feet) from the podium where Bush was delivering facts about george w. bush a speech, but failed to detonate.

In August 2005, with his nomination of the controversial John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations filibustered funny things george bush has said by the Senate, Bush took the rarely-used expedient of installing george bush 322 yale him via a recess appointment. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid criticized this action as an abuse of Presidential power.^[77]

In 2006, Bush replaced long-time chief of staff Andrew Card with george bush alcohol Joshua Bolten and undertook major staff and cabinet changes with the stated intention of revitalizing his Administration.

In November 2006, Bush announced plans to replace Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with george bush being stupid former CIA Director Robert Gates, in response to pressure from the midterm elections and military publications.

Domestic policy

Social Security

President Bush began his second term by outlining a major initiative to reform Social Security, which was facing record deficit projections beginning in 2005. Bush made it the george bush doesnt like black people centerpiece of his agenda despite contrary beliefs in the george bush harvard business school media and in the U.S. Congress, which saw the program as the "third rail of politics," with the American public being suspicious of any george bush head injury attempt to change it. It was also widely believed to be the province of the Democratic Party, with Republicans in the past having been accused of efforts to dismantle or privatize it. In his 2005 State of the Union Address, george bush health care issue Bush discussed the allegedly impending bankruptcy of the program and attacked political inertia against reform. He proposed options to permit Americans to divert a portion of their Social Security tax (FICA) into secured investments, creating george bush humor a "nest egg" that he claimed george bush information would enjoy steady growth. Despite emphasizing safeguards and remaining open to other plans, Bush's proposal was criticized for its high cost, and Democrats attacked it as an effort to partially privatize the system, and for leaving Americans open to the whims george bush iq of the market. Bush embarked on a 60-day national tour, campaigning vigorously for his george bush is evil initiative in media events ("Conversations on Social Security") in a largely unsuccessful attempt to gain support from the general george bush jogging public.^[78] According to at least one poll, Bush failed to convince the public that the Social Security program was in crisis.^[79]

Immigration

In 2006, george bush park Bush somewhat shifted focus to re-emphasize immediate and comprehensive immigration reform. Going beyond calls from Republicans and conservatives to secure the border, Bush demanded that Congress george bush resume create a "temporary guest-worker program" george bush shootout game to allow more than 12 million illegal immigrants to obtain legal status. Bush continues to argue that the lack of legal status denies the protections of george h bush education reform U.S. laws to millions of people who face dangers of poverty and exploitation, and penalizes employers despite a demand for immigrant labor. On May 15, 2006, Bush proposed expanding "Basic Pilot," an online system to allow employers to easily confirm the george w bush being sworn in as prisdent eligibility of new hires; creating a new identification card for all foreign workers; and increasing penalties for businesses that violate immigration laws. Bush urged Congress to provide additional funding george w bush education reform for border security, and committed to deploying 6,000 National Guard troops to the United States-Mexico border.^[80]

National monuments

On June 15, 2006, Bush created the 75th, and largest, National Monument in U.S. history george w bush insider trading allegations and the largest Marine Protected Area in the world with the formation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument.^[81]

Science

On July george w bush wallpaper 19, 2006, Bush used the first veto of his presidency against the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. The bill would have granted federal funding to scientists engaging in stem cell research derived from discarded human embryos, and would have george w. bush moe howard overridden the president's policy of only allowing federal funding of research on 21 stem cell lines that existed prior to 2001.^[82]

In 2005-06, Bush emphasized george w. bush pics the need for comprehensive energy reform and proposed increased funding for research and development of renewable sources of energy such as hydrogen power, harvard business school professor george w bush nuclear power, ethanol and clean coal technologies. Bush proposed the American Competitiveness Initiative which seeks to support increasing competitiveness of the U.S. economy, with greater development of advanced heard the name george bush ? technologies, as well as greater education old is george bush jr and support for American students.

Education

Bush appointed First Lady Laura Bush to oversee an initiative to improve opportunities and education for inner-city boys.^[83]

On August 1, 2005, in response to a question about teaching outsource george w bush intelligent design in public schools, Bush seemed to endorse the intelligent design movement's Teach the Controversy approach. He answered, "I think that part of education is to personal facts about george bush expose people to different schools of thought."^[84] The National Academy of Sciences and the established president george bush sr. scientific community regard this stance as politically motivated. These groups point out that intelligent design is based on the religious concepts found in creationism, and does not constitute valid science.

Money

On August 17, 2006 Bush signed the Pension Protection Act, which increased screensavers george bush fines for companies that underpay surviving george bush money to Social Security, making such underpayments unprofitable.^[85]

That same day, a U.S. district court judge in Detroit ruled that warrantless and otherwise uss george h bush congressionally unauthorized eavesdropping on telephone calls under the Terrorist Surveillance Program were unconstitutional. The judge agreed to place her ruling on hold pending an appeal. A hearing was scheduled 9/11 george w. bush quotes for September 28; the outcome was ???.^[86]

Interrogations

On 28 August 2006 Congress approved a bill that made the detainee interrogation program legal.^[87] The bill was in response to the Supreme Court's decision in June that the program anti george w. bush facts is illegal.^[87] It was the second dancing george bush time Bush tried to approve it through Congress.^[87] Bush signed the bill into law on October 17, 2006 as the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Hurricane educational background of george bush Katrina

One of the worst natural disasters in the nation’s history, Hurricane Katrina, struck early in Bush’s second term. Katrina was the sixth-strongest emo george bush Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest landfalling U.S. hurricane on record. Katrina formed in late August during fetal alcohol syndrome, george w. bush the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and devastated much of the north-central Gulf Coast of the United States, particularly New Orleans^[88]

President Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi funny george bush video clips two days before the hurricane made landfall. After the hurricane reached ground, Bush mobilized the Coast Guard and National Guard funny george w bush quote to help rescue the approximately 60,000 people stranded in New Orleans.

Both local and federal governments were vehemently criticized for their response to Katrina, which was considered insufficient and disorganized. Criticisms of Bush focused funny pictures of george w. bush on three main issues. First, leaders from both parties attacked the president for having appointed incompetent leaders to positions of power at FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, funny political cartoons- george bush most notably Michael D. Brown.^[89] Second, many people argued that the inadequacy of the federal response was the result of the Iraq War and the demands george bush accomplishments it placed on the armed forces and the federal budget.^[90] Third, in the days immediately george bush aircraft carrier following the disaster, President Bush denied having received warnings about the possibility of floodwaters overflowing the levees protecting New Orleans.^[91] However, the presidential videoconference briefing of george bush and college financial aid Aug. 28 shows Max Mayfield warning the President george bush angela merkel that it was "obviously a very, very grave concern."^[92] Critics claimed that the President was misrepresenting his administration's role in what they saw as a flawed response.

Foreign policy

Bush began his second term with an emphasis on improving strained relations with European nations. He appointed long-time advisor Karen Hughes to oversee a global public relations campaign to improve the image george bush birthday of the U.S. and significantly increased development aid to countries with george bush cat toy a focus on encouraging democracy and human rights. Bush strongly lauded the pro-democracy struggles in Georgia and Ukraine and the election george bush cheerleader of Mahmoud Abbas as president of the Palestinian Authority. He led international pressure against Syria to withdraw troops from Lebanon. In March 2006, Bush visited India, leading to renewed ties between the two countries, particularly in areas of nuclear energy george bush chia pet and counterterrorism cooperation.^[93] Bilateral relations between the george bush clips U.S.A. on the one hand and Germany and Canada on the other also improved following the election of conservative governments in those countries. However, george bush curses midway through Bush's second term, many analysts observed a retreat from his freedom and democracy agenda, highlighted in policy changes toward some oil-rich former Soviet republics in central Asia.^[94]

Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan and Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, both undemocratically elected and fiercely autocratic, received george bush divorce official state visits to the White House,^[95] along with increased economic and military assistance.^[96] The george bush drowned woman and baby President had encouraged both leaders to hold free and fair elections early on in his second term, but in fact neither leader carried out significant reforms.^[97]^[98]^[99] The democratic election of the Hamas organization george bush face in the parliamentary elections of the Palestinian Territories, along with democratic gains in legislatures for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hezbollah in Lebanon, all of whom are seen as terrorist organizations by the United States, george bush fool me once also contributed to a far less aggressive approach to democratic reform world-wide from the Bush administration. Reports in late 2006 suggested that pro-democracy groups across the Middle East had become "pessimistic about george bush game the prospects for meaningful reform."^[100]

Iraqi elections and a referendum to george bush gives the finger approve a constitution were held in January and December 2005. Initial media reports george bush goes to heaven of high voter turnout were overestimateda^[101], and were later estimated at less than 50%.^[102] Since then, the fighting in Iraq escalated, and the country appeared to be on the brink of, if not already engaged in, civil war. Bush's leadership against global terrorism and george bush good in the war in Iraq met increasing criticism, with increasing demands within the United States to set a timetable to george bush holding the pet goat upside down withdraw troops from Iraq. Sectarian violence and political deadlock in Iraq, and the deaths of george bush houston home more than 2,700 U.S. soldiers, increased negative impressions of Bush's leadership and the situation in Iraq. Allegations of abuse by U.S. troops accompanied calls from European and george bush immigration reform Asian leaders to shut down detention centers in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. Bush firmly defended his policies and progress in Iraq. He paid a surprise visit to Iraq following the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the appointment george bush impeachment of a new government.

North Korea

North Korea's October 9, 2006 detonation of a nuclear device further complicated george bush intercontinental President Bush's foreign policy, which centered for both terms of his presidency on "[preventing] the terrorists and regimes who seek chemical, biological george bush interview video or nuclear weapons from threatening the United States and the world."^[103] The reported test, which according to the IAEA george bush is a moron Director General "creates serious security challenges not only for the East Asian region but also for the international community,"^[104] intensified criticisms that the President george bush is an asshole took neither military nor diplomatic measures to oppose North Korea's acquisition of WMD. These criticisms date back at least to the 2003 resignation of Special Envoy george bush is anti-christ to North Korea Charles Pritchard, who claimed that "the Bush administration's refusal to george bush jr. engage directly with the country made it almost impossible to stop Pyongyang from going ahead with its plans to build, test and deploy nuclear weapons."^[105] On george bush last press confrence October 11, 2006, in his first extended press conference since the North Korean announcement of a nuclear detonation, President Bush contested the more specific criticism that his endorsement since the test of a policy of attempting george bush laughing "all diplomatic measures before we george bush library college station texas commit our military" in North Korea is an abandonment of his policy of military force in response to the potential threat of WMD-possession in Iraq. Posing to himself the pre-emptive, follow-up question, "why did you use military action in Iraq," President Bush responded, "And the reason why is george bush list of lies because we tried the diplomacy."^[106] President Bush condemned North Korea's claim, reaffirmed his commitment to "a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula," and stated that george bush microphone was on "transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities george bush personal website would be considered a grave threat to the United States," for which North Korea would be held accountable.^[107]

Legislation and programs

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Early life

Governor of Texas

2000 presidential election

Road To Campaign

Campaign

Election day

First term

Domestic policy

Economic policy

Foreign policy

Wars

Afghanistan

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Cabinet

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Social Security

Immigration

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Money

Interrogations

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Foreign policy

North Korea

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