George Walker Bush is the 43rd and current President of the United States.
Nine months into George W. Bush's presidency, nineteen hijackers sponsored by al Qaeda carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks.
After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism, even from former allies, on the Iraq War, Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandals, as well as domestic issues such as federal funding of stem cell research, Hurricane Katrina, and controversies such as NSA warrantless surveillance activities.
Bush has also been criticized in the international community; he was targeted by the global anti-war and anti-globalization campaigns, and criticized for his foreign policy in general. Bush's policies were also the subject of heated criticism in the 2002 elections in Germany and the 2006 elections in Canada.
At the conclusion of 2006, an AP-AOL News telephone poll of 1,004 adults found President George W. Bush to be both the top villain and hero of the year.
At January of 2007, President George W. Bush plan to send another 21,500 troops to the ongoing war on terror in Iraq. 70 percent of Americans oppose the plan.
