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George W. Bush administration controversies
- September 11 attacksThe September 11 attacks, known around the world simply as 9/11, unfolded across a single Tuesday morning in 2001. Four airliners bound for California left airports in Boston, Washington and Newark that morning. Before the morning ended,…
- Hurricane KatrinaShorter steel pilings were a key cause of the levee failures in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
- Iraq WarThe Iraq War's main reason, weapons of mass destruction, turned out to be false.
- Enron scandalThe Enron scandal has plenty of large numbers, but one of the plainest is thirty minutes. That was how long thousands of employees were given to pack their belongings and leave the building on the day their American energy company filed…
- 2003 invasion of IraqThe 2003 invasion of Iraq opened with an airstrike on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad on the 20th of March 2003. It was the first stage of the Iraq War, and it lasted just over a month. A coalition led by the United States carried it…
- Guantanamo Bay detention campThe Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison on the coast of southeastern Cuba. On the 11th of January 2002, military guards brought the first twenty detainees to a temporary compound there called Camp X-Ray. Over…
- Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuseOne freed detainee told a journalist that he wished somebody would publish pictures of what was happening inside Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Somebody eventually did. The photographs showed abuse committed by members of the United States…
- Blackwater (company)Erik Prince once explained his company, Blackwater, with a comparison to package delivery. "We are trying to do for the national security apparatus what FedEx did for the Postal Service," he said. Blackwater became an American private…
- Mexican drug warThe Mexican drug war produced a city with the highest homicide rate in the world. Between 2009 and 2011, Ciudad Juárez in the state of Chihuahua recorded more than 200 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. The Mexican drug war is an ongoing,…
- War on terrorThe war on terror aimed at a tactic, not a country. The U.S. began it after the September 11 attacks.