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George Bush Biography
The eldest child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush, George Walker Bush, was born on July 6, 1946. His family had been involved in business and politics since in 1950s. The family moved to Midland, Texas and this is where George W. Bush’s father made his fortune in oil business in 1948. In 1961, they moved again to Houston and George W. Bush entered Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He played all kind of sports, baseball, basketball, and football. He had a reputation for being an occasional troublemaker. His family connections helped him to enter Yale University in 1964. He was a popular student and became a president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. George W. Bush became a member of Yale’s secretive Skull and Bones society. It is a invitation-only club whose membership contains some of America's most powerful and elite family members.
Before graduating, he joined the Texas Air National Guard. He was accepted through the uninvited help of a family friend. Here he earned his fighter pilot certification in June 1970. Bush was honorably discharged from the Air Force Reserve on November 21, 1974, because of
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He won the victory for president between him and Al Gore. On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four US commercial jetliners and three of them hit their targets in New York and Washington DC. The fourth plane crashed into farmer’s field in Pennsylvania. In 2002, the Bush administration announced that the United States would use military force if necessary to prevent threats to its national security by terrorists. It successfully obtained a UN Security Council resolution to return weapons inspectors to Iraq. Soon, Bush declared that Iraq hadn’t compiled with inspections, and the US launched a successful invasion of Iraq and defeated the Iraqi military on March 20, 2003. He declared an end to major combat operations on March 1,

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