Gorge Bush
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Essay title: Gorge Bush
President George W. Bush is doing a good job in his handling of the war on terrorism. On September 11, 2001, many innocent Americans were killed when terrorists hijacked American airplanes and flew them into the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. That tragedy spurred a war that no American president had ever fought before, a war on terrorism. President Bush amazed the American people when he responded so quickly to the threat to our freedom. In doing this, he earned one of the highest approval ratings that any president received in years. After the attacks, President Bush immediately called for an emergency meeting of Congress. He was the first president in sixty years to take such an action. On September 15, the President held the first, and most important, of several weekend strategy sessions at Camp David. It is at these meetings that the war plan was fashioned. In addition, President Bush realized that the war on terrorism was not just America's fight. Because of this, Bush insisted that his first prime time address call for a global anti terror coalition, and it was the president who fine-tuned the warning to nations that "harbor" terrorists. In response to this call all major countries have joined in the fight against terrorism. England, Canada, France, and even the countries of Libya and Cuba according to Newsweek . Finally, the Bush administration worked quickly to protect the American citizens against any additional terrorist threats on American soil. The U.S. A. Patriot Act was hastily passed