[Mb-civic] Past and prologue!

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(even tho it might sound implausible!)  and everything after that date is 
SATIRE (even tho it may sound plausible!)


PressConnects.com - Dec 23, 2005
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051223/OPINIO
N/512230313/1005

Commentary:

What's past is prologue for Bush team?

by David Rossie

Great Moments in American History, Past, Present and Future:

.Sept. 11, 2001. President George W. Bush, after being informed that
America is experiencing a terrorist attack, sits for seven minutes in an
apparent catatonic state in a Florida kindergarten, before being hauled
off by his Secret Service detail.

Same day. With Bush safely stashed away in a cave at a SAC base in
Nebraska, Vice President Dick Cheney, exercising authority he doesn't
have, authorizes the Air Force to shoot down suspicious civilian
airliners.

.March 19, 2003. Citing evidence that doesn't exist, President Bush
orders the invasion of Iraq to protect America from a threat that
doesn't exist.

.May 3, 2003. President Bush, clad in a spiffy jumpsuit commissioned by
Karl Rove, arrives on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln to announce the
end of major combat in Iraq, beneath a banner proclaiming "Mission
Accomplished." White House spinners later try to blame the Navy for the
banner, but that lie fails.

.June, 2003. President Bush, being interviewed on television while
visiting Poland, boasts that American forces in Iraq have found weapons of
mass destruction.

Same month. An international inspection team reports that there were no
WMD in Iraq.

.May, 2004. Following disclosures of prisoner abuse and torture in
American military prisons, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rules that
the Geneva Accords, which frown on such practices are quaint and outdated
and it's all right to torture prisoners as long as you don't call it
torture and you don't kill them. Except by accident.

.Oct. 26, 2005. The number of American military deaths in Iraq reaches
2,000, presumably as a result of minor combat.

.Dec. 15, 2005. The New York Times reveals (a year after learning of it)
that the Bush administration has been allowing the National Security
Agency to wire tap and otherwise eavesdrop on American citizens in
apparent violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

.Dec. 16, 2005. President Bush announces that the U. S. Constitution, the
U. S. Congress and God authorized him to bypass FISA.

.Dec. 17, 2005. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, after careful study,
announces that FISA is outdated.

.Dec. 19, 2005. Constitutional law scholars say Bush's flouting of FISA
was unconstitutional.

.Dec. 28, 2005. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rules that the
Constitution, being more than 200 years old, is outdated and declares it
null and void.

.January 5, 2006. With military enlistments in free fall, newly
designated Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld authorizes the creation of
press gangs to help fill the ranks.

.January 6, 2006. Cut-and-run congressional Democrats denounce the use of
press gangs as un-American.

.January 12, 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a show of
support for President Bush, flies to Washington and reminds Americans that
while British Navy press gangs forcing American seaman to join the Royal
Navy may have led to the War of 1812, it could also be seen as a form of
Anglo-American solidarity. Following his speech, Blair accepts a Milk Bone
biscuit from Bush.

.January 21, 2006. In his State of the Union speech, President Bush
announces that he is declaring Iraq an American protectorate and names
Vice President Dick Cheney as Viceroy. "It's the least we can do for the
Iraqian people," the president says.

.January 22, 2006. Viceroy Cheney, in accepting his new role, says it will
give him more time to spend with his family and Antonin Scalia. He also
announces plans to dissolve the Iraqi Parliament and replace it with the
board of directors of Kellogg, Brown and Root.

.January 26, 2006. Cut-and-run Democrats and turncoat Republicans led by
John McCain, file articles of impeachment against President Bush.

.Feb. 2, 2006. Bush dissolves Congress and proclaims himself president for
life.

.Feb. 3, 2006. The Wall street Journal, in a lead editorial, calls
Bush's action "bold and decisive," and "long overdue."

.Feb. 4, 2006. In a poll conducted by the Fox Network, Bush's approval
rating soars to 98 percent. (prophetic satire)

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