George Bush’S Great America [EN]: Chapter 12

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“Osama bin Laden’s execution was carried out by lethal injection, and he did not request a last meal.”

Of course, the only thing that was correct was the execution itself, but isn’t that how national statements usually are?

A life sentence was out of the question from the start, considering public opinion, and in the end, he had to be executed somehow. The public was so fierce that there were usually protests against the death penalty every time it was carried out, but even that didn’t happen this time. During the operation, a member could have accidentally put a bullet hole in his head, but from the perspective of Islamic extremists, dying in a fight against infidels was the greatest honor.

It would have been better if I could have prevented 9/11 itself, so I wouldn’t have to interfere in the Middle East, but unfortunately, I couldn’t do that.

Anyway, the most important thing is that I’ve relieved one of my biggest worries.

The knowledge I have is actually manipulating the world.

Future knowledge! And the world’s strongest military power and national power! Now, no one can stop me!

Except for the people.

“Ah, that guy’s briefing is really amazing. Promote him.”

“Yes, sir.”

“How is the interrogation going?”

My reliable Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, was always by my side.

“John Brandi is telling us everything, even about his childhood friends.”

“Ah, childhood friends. I had friends like that too.”

Mike Proctor, Joe O’Neill, Robert McCleskey. The four of us, including me, were troublemakers in the neighborhood. When we went around selling candy, the elders in the neighborhood would buy handfuls of it with satisfied expressions.

“…What?”

“Is something the matter?”

I don’t know those friends’ names. I remember seeing records of me playing with them in my autobiography. But there’s no way the names engraved in the autobiography I skimmed through would come to mind so vividly right away. Then it was clear that something from the original George W. Bush was influencing me.

Based on unscientific reasoning. Perhaps it was a phenomenon that appeared as the soul merged with the body.

Hmm, but looking at the cross hanging on the wall, my faith isn’t soaring. George W. Bush was a devout Christian. Perhaps his kind personality also stemmed from his faith.

It’s not like I didn’t believe in God. To be precise, I believed in beings that fall under the category of supernatural phenomena. I myself became George Bush, didn’t I?

However, there was not enough information to pinpoint and confirm anything exactly.

“It’s nothing.”

“So, what did Rumsfeld say?”

“He just shouted at me to bring evidence.”

Ah, that guy is always the same. But using the phone was a bad move. At least if he had texted, the agents I had placed wouldn’t have heard the contents. On top of that, CIA agent John Brandi told us everything, so it was over.

“It’s the Vice President.”

“The Vice President?”

“Shall we send him back?”

The Chief of Staff, knowing that my relationship with the Vice President had not been good recently, spoke first, but it was already too late. A guard, judging the silence as affirmation, had already opened the door. Truly, he was an employee with a progressive ideology who didn’t think about the employer’s position at all. I believe that he will be transferred to a minor position during my term, but after that, he will be able to return to the White House with excellent results.

“President, it is obvious to anyone in the administration that the path we must take from now on will be somewhat difficult to navigate with the current method.”

I prayed to God, whom I didn’t really believe in, that he would bring an intelligent and sensible proposal. Otherwise, my mood was not good because my mind was already complicated by the spiritual something I had suddenly become aware of, and I felt uneasy.

“Therefore, I propose this.”

The Vice President submitted two reports to me, who was still feeling uncomfortable. But I saw a very familiar name at the top of the report.

“John Yoo.”

“Do you know him?”

“A Korean-American. I heard he came to find freedom when he was six years old.”

And when I thought about what he had done, no, just thinking about it made my blood pressure rise again. He was someone I didn’t want to give importance to, no matter what happened in this America.

Father Bush once said this to his son Bush: ‘Wall Street is just a place to buy or sell you, and they don’t really care who you are. It’s just a place to think about how to get money out of you.’ That’s exactly what John Yoo was like. He was a person who would do anything as long as he could get a lot of money or lobbying and defend it.

“Ah, you’re very interested in Korea?”

“I’ve always been interested in Korea.”

George W. Bush was the most interested and affectionate person in Korea among the US presidents. So, it wouldn’t be unnatural for me to say this. Can you believe that when the Geographic Names Board changed Dokdo [a group of islets in the Sea of Japan, subject to a territorial dispute between South Korea and Japan] to an area with unspecified sovereignty, he directly ordered Dokdo to be marked as Korean territory by presidential decree?

“Maybe Rumsfeld is also very interested in Korea.”

“Money?”

This was also true. Underneath Donald Rumsfeld’s desk glass was always a huge picture, which was a nighttime satellite photo of the Korean Peninsula. Of course, it was obvious that he was more interested in North Korea than South Korea. The nighttime satellite photos of South and North Korea showed that the amount of light emitted from the cities was so extreme that it was proof that the camp that won the Cold War was the United States.

“In conclusion. This report is useless now.”

Of course. This was the predecessor of the ‘Patriot Act’ [a controversial law passed in response to the 9/11 attacks]. The official name of the Patriot Act was the Counter-Terrorism Act, which brought about roughly 10 changes, and the part that directly challenged the Constitution was that the state could view any record of the people in real time.

In simple terms, it started with minor things like emails and phone records without a warrant, and even detailed records like medical records, financial records, and even library records.

Clearly, the Patriot Act had positive elements. First of all, it would be able to prevent domestic terrorism with a high probability. The International Money Laundering Prevention Act, which was proposed at the same time as the Patriot Act, was clearly an effective law.

However, the Patriot Act and the International Money Laundering Prevention Act were laws that could be separated, so it was difficult to see them as positive elements.

“It’s not a bill that I need during my term, even if it’s after my term.”

“Then are you going to pass it without any countermeasures?”

“We need to strengthen the existing system. Laws that require CCTV [closed-circuit television] to be installed on buildings and streets.”

It wouldn’t be of great help right away, but this policy could gradually lower the rate of crime. The disadvantage would be the false installation reports that come from the cost, but that was a problem that would gradually improve. And this law was a million times better than the Patriot Act.

“With such lukewarm methods, you can only find the cause of the explosion. It’s too late after it explodes.”

“Who do you think is carrying out the terrorism? So, if you classify it.”

“Islam, enemy countries. Or it could be our own people.”

“Among them, enemy countries cannot be prevented by the laws written in this report in the first place. Well, our own people, that’s something to consider. But at least we can almost certainly stop Islam coming from the Middle East.”

“What method are you talking about? We must trample on them so that they never look down on the United States again. If they attack again, we can trample on them as many times as we want, even dozens or hundreds of times! We are already at war! Didn’t the President also assert that it was a war on terror?”

“The word war doesn’t only apply when you bomb somewhere and deploy ground troops. The Cold War was also considered a war. My war is not a physical war.”

“President! We need strong measures now! Think of 9/11! Remember the collapsing World Trade Center! We will never face such terrorism again!”

“The state!”

Yes, I know the results. I clearly remember what the war on terror brought to the United States.

“The state cannot fight against concepts, Vice President Dick Cheney!”

“The United States can fight! We are the strongest country in the world! We can bomb anywhere, infiltrate anywhere, and be anywhere!”

Dick Cheney’s face was distorted like a demon. He was overconfident and blindly believed in the power coming from the United States. The United States is also a country after all. If you make a mistake, your national power will weaken as much as you make a mistake. Rather, the harm brought by the neocons [neoconservatives, a political movement in the US] was so great that there was a saying that the reason why the United States did not collapse during the Bush administration was because the United States had done so well in advance.

“We can destroy anywhere!”

You can even destroy the citizens you are trying to protect!

Will the collected information be used normally, fairly, and justly? Legally, it can be, but you cannot prevent the deviation of individuals who collect information. I’m not talking about sex crimes like voyeurism or stock investment. What if the person who collected important information has a different mind at the national level? In the short term, it promises security and safety, but can you say the same even after ten or twenty years?

Even if it’s not that individual, what is the investigator’s right to refuse when a high-ranking person requests that information? I have already seen a lot. I have clearly watched the class called the so-called high-ranking people boldly avoid the law.

There was no perfect system in the world. At least capitalism was not ready to accept the Patriot Act.

“Vice President. I won’t say much. There will be no acceptance of this law during my term.”

“Your Excellency. Congress will pass it.”

“I will exercise my veto power as President.”

“We seem to be walking a slightly different path. Vice President?”

“I always think of the security and improvement of the United States as my top priority.”

“Me too.”

The intentions were the same, but the conclusions drawn were so different. Dick Cheney wanted to create a United States that only projected power through force, and I, who knew the results, wanted a complex power projection.

“I am not your enemy. Bush. I’m your running mate. I’m your ally! You can’t treat me like this!”

Dick Cheney said that and ran out of the office at a fast pace.

“I’ve never seen Dick get so angry before.”

It was the first time I had seen him like that. He was always quiet, calm, and meticulous. That’s why both Father Bush and Son Bush did not hesitate to put Dick Cheney in the vice president’s seat. There was a reason why George Bush visited him 14 times.

Well, he wouldn’t be able to keep his blood pressure from rising if every time he tried to do something, it was rejected.

“Is his heart okay?”

“I heard he has myocardial infarction, but the best medical staff is always with him. That shouldn’t be a problem.”

Well, if his blood pressure rises to the point where it becomes a problem with every single thing like this, he can’t do politics. He was a really seasoned person.

“The Vice President has collapsed!!!”

“Ah…. It was a problem.”