George W. Bush became president in 2000 following an extremely close election after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened to stop a recount of votes in Florida, and he served for two terms. He presided over the worst terrorist attack in American history on 9/11, launched a global “war on terror” which still persists, and invaded Iraq after making false claims that it had an active weapons of mass destruction program, costing thousands of American and countless Iraqi lives.