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Complete 10 page APA formatted essay: George Bush and Human Rights Abuses since 9/11.

The essay "George Bush and Human Rights Abuses since 9/11" discusses how September 11, 2011, changed the course of United States history. Much ado has been made over the last ten years concerning the human rights abuses of the George W. Bush administration. Yet there are two sides to every argument and for all of the modern day Patrick Henry’s who decries such incidents as Guantanamo Bay and waterboarding, there are an equal amount of people who agree wholeheartedly with all of the changes that have taken place in the United States. It just seems that those who preach abuse of human rights seem to be louder and more in the forefront. For instance, Amnesty International has been one of the most outspoken groups in blaming Bush personally, especially for the waterboarding. Just this past week the group called for the ex-President’s arrest while he visited several nations in Africa for AIDS and cancer awareness. No doubt recognizing the far-reaching legal and moral consequences of arresting a United States president, Zambia dismissed the group’s request. Yet the country’s foreign minister didn’t say they wouldn’t. Indeed, he was quoted as saying that “Zambia would have considered the request only if it had come from the International Criminal Court acting on behalf of international organizations like the United Nations”. That is pretty dangerous wording, especially considering the fact that this very week the former president of the Ivory Coast was handed over to the same International Criminal Court....

Box cutters? That was a ludicrous idea and of course even pocketknives were allowed to a certain extent. All that changed on 9/11. That morning, nineteen determined young men, armed mostly only with knives, stormed the cockpits of four commercial jetliners. The terrorists on three met their objectives and crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Only through extreme heroism of the passengers did Flight 93 crash into a field in Pennsylvania, instead of a target in the Washington area, still debated as to whether it was the Capitol or White House. By dark that night three buildings of the World Trade Center had collapsed and almost three thousand people were dead in the three states, including citizens of over ninety countries. The world was in mourning and the United States Government had already taken steps to secure the country’s borders. In an unprecedented step only discussed before, US airspace was closed for four days and fighter jets escorted some commercial aircraft to their temporary destinations in Canada, for utter confusion reigned in those first few hours. George Walker Bush had only been the US president for less than eight months, after winning what is arguably the mostly hotly debated election in the country’s history. Prior to September 11, his most pressing foreign incident was the April Hainan Island incident, in which the Chinese captured a US Navy EP-3 intelligence aircraft and held the crew and plane for some time. That morning Bush was in Florida giving a routine speech at an elementary school.