• “Peace is Earned Through Strength”– Increased Military

Budget • Global War on Terror• Bush Doctrine

– Authored by Cheney & Paul Wolfowitz

– Actions that will protect the security and democracy of Americans are justified

New President-Hu Jintao April 1-US Spy Plane

collides w/Chinese fighter Emergency Landing on

Hainan Island Held for 12 Days,

US paid $34, 567.89 Plane returned 2 months

later In over 100 boxes!

• 8:45am-American Airlines 11 from Boston hits WTC (North)

• 9:08am-United 175 from Boston hits WTC (South)

• 9:43am-American 77 from Dulles hits Pentagon

• 10:10am-United 93 from Newark crash lands into Somerset, PA

2,999 people died, 24 are still missing 246 on the 4 Planes, 2603 in NYC, 125 at Pentagon

All Civilian International air traffic was banned from landing for 3 days

“Terrorism can shake the foundations of our tallest buildings but it can’t shake the resolve of the American people.

Approval Rating hit 86%, highest ever

• October 7- US invasion of Afghanistan– Destruction of Terrorist

training camps– Capture of Al-Qaeda

Leaders (bin Laden)

• Nov. 21-Battle of Tora Bora-remove Taliban from Kabul

• President Hamid Karzai• Operation Mountain Thrust

(2006)-renew attacks against the Taliban

Iran Iraq North Korea Cuba Libya Syria

President Vladimir Putin

Consolidation of Democratic Power? Next Tsar of Russia

SORT Treaty signed May 24, 2002 Limits Nuclear

arsenals to 1700 by 2012

No longer recognizes ABM Treaty

UN Resolution 1441-No tolerance or defiance of international law (WMD)

Reasons for War-WMD and ties to 9/11 CIA was continuing to investigate “allegations

of yellow-cake uranium sales in Niger” Thomas Wilson and Valerie Plame (CIA) No real connection was ever found… Hans Blix was never aware of any indications

of a nuclear program that could attack the US

• Invasion began on March 20, 2003

• Led by General Tommy Franks

• Baghdad falls on April 9• Successes

– Operations over May 1, 2003– Uday & Qusay killed,

Saddam Executed (Dec. 30, 2006)

– Iraq becomes a democracy in 2004

– Current leader-Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki

Rumsfeld Doctrine Lighter, Faster Military

w/supporting air strikes Lack of Ground Forces to

Secure Borders & Cities Debaathification

Removal of Saddam’s personal army & anyone involved within his former government

Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal

• Troops-680,000 invasion

• 540,000 US• 148 US Dead (36

Friendly Fire)• 30 Supporting Nations

– 52,000 Saudi Arabia– 43,000 United Kingdom– 33,600 Egypt

• Cost $61 Billion ($7 Billion to US)

• 6 Weeks of Combat

• Troops-300,000 invasion• 165,000 Current• 3915 US Soldiers Dead• 17 Supporting Nations

Today– South Korea 933– Romania 397– El Salvador 280

• Cost $400 Billion to US• 3 Months of Active

Combat

Kim Jong –Il Walked away from 1994

Agreement $4 Billion, Oil, Light-water

reactors Oct. 6, 2006-Detonated

Nuclear Device (Underground) May 7, 2007-Agreed to shut

down reactors for release of frozen bank funds

US, China, North Korean Deal September 2, 2007-Agreed to

dismantle nuclear program by the end of 2007.

Bush’s Desire for a Palestinian State by 2005

Denounced Arafat (Died in 2003)

Israel PM-Ehud Olmert Palestinian President-

Mahmoud Abbas Israel must halt West

Bank activity Palestinian must halt

and dismantle all terrorist activities

Colonel Muhammar Quadhafi

Agreed in 2003 to disarm all of their WMD

Allowed weapons inspectors in (UN)

In 2006, agreed to full diplomatic ties with the US (off Axis of Evil…)

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

US calls for a stop to production of all nuclear weapons

In 2003, Iran stopped making a bomb Continued enrichment

of uranium Continued long range

missile system