| Top delegations of the Afghanistan government and senior Taliban leaders have agreed to meet in Qatar to stalled for months | At the same time he delivered major tax cuts which had been a campaign pledge |
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| His most controversial act was the invasion of Iraq on the belief that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein posed a grave threat to the United States |
President Bush pledged during his 2005 State of the Union Address that the United States would help the Iraqi people establish a fully democratic government because the victory of freedom in Iraq would strengthen a new ally in the war on terror, bring hope to a troubled region, and lift a threat from the lives of future generations.
11| During the early part of the 2000 campaign for the White House, Bush enjoyed a double-digit lead in the polls over his opponent Vice President Al Gore Jr | Bush was president when al-Qaeda operatives hijacked commercial airliners and flew the planes into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon military headquarters outside Washington, DC on September 11, 2001 |
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| Bush was challenged in his re-election bid in 2004 by Massachusetts Democratic Senator John Kerry | Bush paintings of world leaders, celebrities, and his bathroom |
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom — tested but not weary… we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom.
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