1993. World Trade Center, New York City, bombed by Ryder Truck bomb in underground parking structure. Identification of bomber was helped when he went to the Ryder Truck office and asked for his security deposit to be refunded, even though the truck had been at the center of the explosion.
Approximately 11/6/00. George W. Bush was elected 43d President Of The United States over Democratic Party candidate, Vice President Al Gore (George W. Bush appointed by U. S. Supreme Court which stopped recount or which would not allow recount to continue in Florida). George W. Bush Vice President: Dick Cheney.
2001. George W. Bush administration tax cuts for richest Americans and richest corporations.
9/11/01. Both World Trade Center tower buildings in New York destroyed by suicide pilots who flew highjacked passenger planes. Four planes hijacked almost simultaneously. Two from American Airlines, two from United Airlines. Two from Boston to Los Angeles, one from Dulles, Washington, D.C. area to Los Angeles, and one from Newark to San Francisco. Two crashed into World Trade Center towers, one into Pentagon, and one crashed 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, apparently on the way to Washington, D.C. Significant disaster, apparently planned in part by Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Approximately 10/01. U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in response to 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. Objectives: 1. Kill Osama Bin Laden (which was not accomplished at Tora Bora); 2. Destroy Al-Qaeda; 3. Remove Taliban government in Afghanistan.
Approximately 3/03. U.S. went to war against Saddam Hussein in Iraq based on false claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Some sources say the invasion of Iraq was a predetermined conclusion early in the George W. Bush administration.
Summer, 2004. Senator barack Obama introduced at Democratic National Convention.
Approximately 11/6/04. George W. Bush re-elected President Of The United States over Democratic Party challenger John Kerry. (Re-election of a wartime president).
Approximately 9/08. Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. Meltdown of U.S. financial system under watch of President George W. Bush. Note that the George W. Bush administration was book ended by (approximately began with and ended with) the following significant events: 9/11/01 terror attacks and by U.S. financial meltdown. That shows what it was like to have a president who employed failed policies and failed strategies, and who was surrounded by self interested, conservative foreign policy advocates and right wing business executives such as Dick Cheney and associates, who successfully sought to enrich themselves and their big business friends (examples: Haliburton’s no bid, multi-billion dollar contracts in Iraq war [Vice President Dick Cheney was a former Haliburton executive who was paid many millions of dollars by that company, and who probably continued to receive pay from Haliburton after he became Vice President]; 2001 tax breaks for richest Americans and for the biggest corporations, which eliminated the federal budget surplus which existed under the Bill Clinton administration).
Approximately 11/5/08. Barack H. Obama elected 44th President Of The United States. Barack Obama Vice President: Joe Biden. Defeated Republican candidates John McCain, Sarah Palin.
References:
Michael Moore documentaries:
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004);
Sicko (2007);
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009).
Paladin Law Group