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Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is one of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States. -
George H.W. Bush
American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States. -
Donald Rumsfield
Donald Henry Rumsfeld is an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. -
Saddam Hussein
A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party. -
George W. Bush
an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 -
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician and diplomat who was the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 -
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice, its first Hispanic justice, and its third female justice -
Greenpeace
social and political advocacy organizations that favor legislation with the goal of protection the enviroment -
Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States -
collapse of the Soviet Union
The world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. -
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton was 42nd president of the US -
Kyoto Protocol
rejected by US senators due to the fact that it could undermine the US governments authority -
International Criminal Court [ICC]
US views as good due to credibility gained by following same rules as other nations, yet bad due to soldiers and officials of the US being charged with war crimes in a court not with the US legal system -
Third-Party Candidates
It can sometimes spoil an election by causing a mainline party candidate to lose by taking away votes. -
9/11
focused the US foreign policy in the 21st century to that of combating terrorism -
USA PATRIOT. Act
opposed by some lawmakers because they felt it would lead to violations of the constitutional rights of citizens -
WTO
Avenue in which US attempts to reduce trade barriers through international organizations to increase flow of US commerce -
Hurricane Katrina
Factors that led to the destruction caused by this hurricane were such things as failure of leeves to hold, inability of some esidents to evacuate, and the location being under sea level -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2008
intended to improve economic conditions during recession
