George W. Bush

greatest responsibility is to protect the American people from both foreign and domestic threats. The president is given the authority and responsibility to accomplish this task by the Constitution. President Bush convinced the people…

On March 12, 2002 President George W. Bush signed Homeland Security Presidential Directive-3, calling for the creation of the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) and was formally implemented in July, 2002 ( ,2003). This new standardized system outlined the basic vocabulary and framework for assessing the risk of terrorist threats for the entire nation. More importantly, it was a way to more effectively communicate terrorist threats with all levels of the government, private sector, and…

Few argued when the 20th Century was dubbed the "American Century", a term first coined in the early 1940s when the country was still overcoming its isolationist instincts. Over the past 15 years, America's fortunes have changed with dizzying speed. First came the tremors: the dot-com bust and a disputed presidential election in 2000. few acts of terrorism that the Islamic State has carried out in the Gulf Arab States were also directed against the Shi’a Muslims in the Eastern province of Saudi…

Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. This act was passed in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the world trade center. It was an act of congress that passed six weeks after on October 26, 2001. This was signed into law by George W. Bush. The Patriot Act was passed almost unanimously by the senate with a vote of 98 to 1 and it passed in the house 357 to 66. The purpose of this act was to deter and punish any acts of terrorism around the world and to improve law…

1.) As explained in these weeks required essays and also the Saylor text “American Government and politics in the Information Age” Presidential vetoes are when congress sends a bill to the White House for the president, and the current president of the United States, at the time, can “return it” without any objections. To understand further how the veto from the president works, it starts with the latin translation of the word which is “I forbid” adding to the serious tone of the president…

still left facing and has continued to cause the lives of many. On that same day of the attack former President Bush gave notice that the groups known as the Al-Qaeda were the ones associated with the attacks. That is when the country began to go to complete operation mode in protecting the nation and it’s people, and it began planning a war. It’s leader at the time President George W. Bush had made…

Previous presidents would go against with cooperating with California and were not as willing to follow their rules that they had set up for them. George W. Bush is one of the presidents who opposed to the state because he didn’t want to recognize the domestic policy issue that was occurring during that time. That wasn’t the only thing that George W. Bush tried to overlooked he even ignored border control assistance, terrorism funding and agriculture. Despite this there are still presidents that…

target, with the intent of instilling fear in a broader audience (Haider-Markel, Donald). A large group of domestic terrorism in America was the KKK. The president reinstated the habeas corpus eliminating reasoning behind arresting people. President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act, which greatly increased government authority to respond to domestic and international terrorism by expanding the power and authority of law enforcement and intelligence agencies (Haider-Markel,…

Defense of Our Nation’s Capital Throughout our nation’s history, and even before, America’s militia has answered the call to guard and defend America’s citizens and way of life. Following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, President George W. Bush authorized the activation of the Reserves of each military branch as well as the Army and Air National Guard. Initially, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld designated more than 35,000 reserve component men and women the task of protecting…

to pull out of Kuwait in mid-January so as a result the Gulf War began with a massive air offensive by the United States known as Operation Desert Storm. After a 42 day offensive in the air and on the ground by the allied coalition President George H.W. Bush called for a cease-fire on February 28, 1991 with which most of the Iraqi forces had surrendered or fled Kuwait. Even though the allied coalition was successful this led to unstable tension in the region which led to what has been called the…