I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

Bush to the presidency in 2000 Bush was commonly referred to simply as "George Bush"; since that time the forms "George H. In the wake of economic concerns he lost the 1992 presidential election to Democrat Bill Clinton. Bush was born in Milton Massachusetts to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.