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{{legend|#4A7EBB|approve}} {{legend|#BE4B48|disapprove}} {{legend|#98B954|unsure}} Gallup/USA Today Bush public opinion polling from February 2001 to January 2009. Blue denotes approve, red disapprove, and green unsure. Large increases in approval followed the September 11 attacks, the death of Osama bin Laden, the beginning of the Iraq conflict, and the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the successes in the wars in Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan.