Were there instances of violence directed towards the government during the Bush years?

Factual Questions
1

Let me start by saying

  1. If you came to tell me that isolated reports about people mad at the government during the Obama administration doesn’t prove that conservatives/republicans are more violent, I agree. That’s not what I’m suggesting.

  2. I realize there isn’t a factual answer to this, but I think there’s a close enough answer to where most of us can agree to an approximate equivalence.

I’m just curious if there were instances of violence directed at the government during the Bush years. I’m talking about instances akin to this shootout today, flying a plane into the IRS, anti-government militia groups, killing police officers, Pentagon guards, etc.

**Note: pointing out violent rhetoric is not what I’m interested in. I’m interested in people who at least appear to have some very profound grievances against the government and acted on them in a violent way. **

2

Here’s one: a guy in the Republic of Georgia lobbed a grenade at Bush while he was giving a speech.

3

I think the OP is looking for home-grown, domestic acts. Otherwise we could start with the 9-11 attacks which certainly aimed at the US as a whole and the government specifically (plane into the Pentagon and flight 93 which was supposed to target either the White House or the Senate building).

Doesn’t the Secret Service list some basic statistics regarding threats against the lives of the President and other important officials?

4

The anthrax mailings shortly after 9/11 are generally believed to be from a domestic source. I suppose that would qualify.

5

Indeed. I should have been clearer.

6

And here I thought Bush was such a good ol’ boy.

7

Richard Reid, AKA the shoe bomber.