Chapter 25

Chapter 25 Notes

· Bush accused Gore of appealing to “class warfare”

· Bush raised $50 million more then Gore in his campaign

· Neither of them had a plan for free national health care, environmental control, or low cost housing

· Both supported the death penalty, and favored a large military establishment

· They predicted that half the country would not even vote and didn’t care about them because they didn’t think they cared enough about them

· Gore did win the popular vote but Bush won the elector vote, it was so close that Florida ended up being the state that decided

· Bush had an advantage on Florida seeing as his brother was the governor

· The liberal judges of the Florida supreme court argued that there should be an new election in Florida

· The votes in Florida were never completely counted and the ruling was done by the Florida supreme court

· After Bush was elected the democratic party went along almost completely with Bush’s foreign policy and only differed a bit on his domestic policy

· Bush wanted to “privatize” social security which meant that it would depend of the stock market

· He was all for increasing military funding and the “Star Wars” program

· When Bush started the “War on Terrorism” he said that nations harboring terrorists are just as good as the terrorists

· After the bombing of Afghanistan the pentagon said that they are only bombing military targets and that any civilian casualties are an accident, between 1000 to 4000 civilians were thought to have been killed

· The destruction and damage done to Afghanistan was keep out of the news

· After 9/11 the population was overwhelmingly supportive of Bush’s “War on Terrorism”

· The United States bomb the largest TV station in the middle east

· Congress passed the “USA Patriot Act” which says that we can detain any noncitizen without a cause because they look or acted suspicious

· Some people were confined to 23 hours of solitary confinement a day

· Critics of the bombing campaign think that terrorism is rooted in deep grievances against the United States, such as stationing troops in Saudi Arabia and years of sanctions against Iraq