George W. Bush became the 43rd President of the USA in controversial fashion, after losing the popular vote and benefiting from a Supreme Court decision against Democrat opponent Al Gore in the 2000 election.
“I don’t want to sound like these nutwings now saying Trump won the Biden election – that wasn’t even close - but we should have won that one,” sighs Al Jourgensen today. The Ministry mainman has a closer adversarial relationship with Bush than most, having released a trilogy of albums – 2004’s Houses Of The Molé, 2006’s Rio Grande Blood and 2007’s The Last Sucker – dedicated to lambasting the man and his Republican administration. Ministry were not alone in their reaction to Bush, however, and particularly his ‘war on terror’. While Jourgensen will happily and knowledgeably denounce Bush’s domestic pre-presidential record as the governor of Texas, it was the 9/11 attacks and his reactions to it that both defined his presidency and set a chain of events in motion that are still impacting the global stage.
