PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH RESPONDS TO THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK

 

     President Franklin Roosevelt tried to break with tradition by running for a third term in 1940.  However, when the public learned he was handicapped and confined to a wheelchair, the grandson of Senator Prescott Bush, George W. Bush, managed to eke out a win in the Electoral College, despite losing the popular vote by over half a million.  Socialist candidate Norman Thomas gave the election to Bush by getting a million votes in Roosevelt's home state of New York.  With the largest single collection of electoral votes in his pocket, Bush won.

 

     Thus it was that when the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, Bush was the guest teacher for a Bible study class of seven and eight year olds in Florida.  His lesson dealt with the parable of the Good Samaritan, and how this demonstrated God was opposed to Social Security.

 

     In the midst of the lesson an aide entered the classroom and whispered into Bush's ear the announcement of the Japanese attack, and some facts on the amount of damage it was doing.  Newsreel footage being shot of Bush giving the lesson show him staring into space and blinking for seven minutes, until additional aides come on the scene and usher him out of the classroom.

 

     Bush used his powers as President to order the immediate closure of all American ports for a week.  All members of the Japanese Imperial family then in the United States were placed aboard an airplane and sent back to Japan before the FBI or military intelligence could question them.  Some relatives of the head of the Japanese Navy were also put aboard the airplane.

 

     As a purported major need for the war effort, Bush announced Thailand had supported the attack, despite the lack of any proof of such support, and introduced into Congress a bill, Internal Defense In Our Time Act, which suspended essentially all portions of the Constitution.  Congress was allowed no time to read or debate the bill as Bush's supporters claimed any delay only aided America's enemies.  The IDIOT Act passed with almost no dissent, and the Attorney General began collecting the records of all libraries in the United States to see who was reading the now subversive book, "Anna and the King of Siam".

 

     Bush now claimed the king of Thailand was trying to obtain napalm and poison gas to use on his neighbors.  With these claims frightening the American public, Bush commanded all elements of the American military to commence an all out attack on Thailand.  The king quickly vanished, the Thai defense forces collapsed, and secessionist, religious cult, and warlord armies involved America in a devastatingly expensive war for the next five years, while Japan and its German ally conquered the rest of the world.