President George W. Bush (The Kingdom of the United States)

George Walker Bush, Viscount Milton (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States of America. He served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and is the eldest son of former American President George Herbert Walker Bush, 3rd Earl of Scioto and Lady Barbara Bush. He was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2001 and his current term is scheduled to end at noon EST (17:00 UTC) on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.

After graduating from college, Bush worked in his family's oil businesses. He made an unsuccessful run for the United States House of Representatives in 1978. He co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards to become Governor of Texas in 1994. In a close and controversial election Bush, who lost the nationwide popular vote but won the electoral vote, was elected to the Presidency in 2000 as the Federal Royalist candidate.

Bush signed into law a $1.35 trillion tax cut program in 2001. After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Bush ordered an invasion of Afghanistan and in October 2001 announced a global War on Terrorism in order to overthrow the Taliban, destroy Al-Qaeda, and to capture Osama bin Laden. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002. In March 2003, Bush and the Congress asserted Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction and ordered the invasion of Iraq. Aboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, Bush gave the Mission Accomplished speech, proclaiming, "in the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." He is married to Lady Laura (nee Welsh) Bush.

Bush ran for re-election against the Democratic Labor Party's nominee, Senator John Kerry in 2004. Kerry debated Bush's handling of the Iraq War and domestic issues. Bush was re-elected on November 2, 2004 garnering 50.7% of the popular vote to his opponent's 48.3%.[9]

After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism and began losing support from his Royalist base largely due to his stance on illegal immigration and government spending. During his two terms he has had both the highest and the lowest domestic Gallup poll approval ratings of American Presidents, ranging from around 90% immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks, to 28% in June 2008. Worldwide opinions of Bush are widely less favorable with the exception of a few countries, notably Israel.