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U.S. President George W. Bush sits at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House after addressing the nation on the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks September 11, 2006 in Washington, DC. It's been five years since terrorists seized four airliners in flight, crashing two in the World Trade Center in New York, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and one into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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George W. Bush

George W. Bush: Education, Family and Early Political Career Bush, the oldest of six children of George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) and Barbara Bush (1925-2018), was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven Connecticut, when his father, a former World War II naval aviator, was a student at Yale University. He was raised in Texas, […]

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The Surprising Interrogations That Led to Saddam Hussein’s Capture

The key to the Iraq War’s biggest triumph wasn’t firepower or technology or ‘enhanced’ interrogation. It was more personal than that.

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President Bill Clinton, with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at his side, emphatically denies having affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.  (Photo by Diana Walker//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

The 1990s: When Technology Upended Our World

Remember when a little-known web blog helped blow up a presidency? And a music-streaming service called Napster wreaked havoc in the recording industry?

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10 Consequential Political Leaks Through History

From the Hutchinson Papers to the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks, look back at some of the most significant leaks in history and their impact.

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2011

U.S. declares an end to the War in Iraq

21st Century
2003

Baghdad falls to U.S. forces

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2003

Saddam Hussein captured

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2003

Jessica Lynch gets hero’s welcome

21st Century
2003

Qusay and Uday Hussein killed

21st Century
1980

Iran-Iraq War begins

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