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Laura, thanks so much for sending me this. No worries. I've gotten the
hang of the internet thing. I'll be careful not to post it to the loonies on
AntiNato, etc.
On September 21, LBush wrote:
<<Les, here's that secret first draft you asked for. Keep it confidential! >>
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President Pro Temporariness, members of Congress, and fellow
Americans: In the normal course of events, presidents come to this chamber to
report on the state of the union. Tonight, they have sent me instead.
We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the unfolding of
flags, the giving of blood, the waving of flags, the saying of prayers, and
the savage beatings administered to people who dress differently and do not
wave flags.
Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger. Who would have thought that
callous disregard for the lives lost to American bombs abroad might one day
lead to calamity? Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution and
resolution to jingoism and jingoism soon will be transmuted into a new batch
of experimental and traditional weapons raining down on the human beings who
inhabit the world's hovels. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or
bring justice to our enemies, just as I say, let me adjust this mike.
I thank the Congress for showing its leadership at such an important time by
granting me the untrammeled right to imprison and destroy our designated
demons du jour.
All who love America and who are uncommonly tolerant of shallow manipulation
were touched on the evening of the tragedy to see Republicans and Democrats
joined together on the steps of this Capitol singing ''God Bless America.''
And you did more than sing. You acted, you signed over $40 billion to the
military-industrial complex. Money that was nowhere to be seen earlier when
desperate requests came in for better schools or teacher's salaries or
affordable housing. Speaker Hastert, Minority Leader Gephardt, Majority
Leader Daschle and Senator Lott, I thank you for your abject subservience,
and for prostrating yourself before the needs of the corporate complex.
America is not alone in this. We will not forget South Korean children
gathering to pray outside our embassy in Seoul, the way we forgot about them
when they vainly huddled under a bridge to avoid being strafed in 1951, or
the ones gunned down in Kwangju.
Let me thank all the countries standing by us, except for Canada.
America has no truer friend than Great Britain.
I'm so honored the British prime minister had crossed an ocean to show his
unity with America in plotting yet another cataclysm of violence against the
poorest nations on earth.
Thank you for coming, friend.
On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our
country. Americans have known wars, but for the past 136 years they have
been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941, which would have
been on foreign soil, had we not annexed Hawaii and turned it into a fortress
guarding our overbearing presence in Asia.
Americans have known the casualties of war, but not at the center of a great
city on a peaceful morning. That knowledge, until now, has belonged almost
exclusively to our adversaries.
Americans have known surprise attacks, but rarely from the receiving side.
All of this was brought upon us in a single day, and night fell on a
different world, a world where freedom itself is under attack, and I am not
referring to the repressive laws we are about to enact.
Americans have many questions tonight. They are asking, ''Who wrote my
speech?" They also want to know why it is that when a reporter asks me a
question, I often look like a spaniel who has just heard an unfamiliar
command.
The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely
affiliated terrorist organizations known as al Qaeda. You may have heard of
them before. I hadn't. They are the fundamentalists we bankrolled to kill
Russians, and whom we now accuse of bombing American embassies in Tanzania
and Kenya and say are responsible for bombing the USS Cole.
Al Qaeda is to terror as the mafia is to crime or I as am to the inane phrase
and malapropism. But its goal is not making money, something we might
respect. Its goal is remaking the world and imposing its radical beliefs on
people everywhere. What dad likes to call New World Order, only I don't
remember him giving permission to Al Qaeda or anyone else to try it.
The terrorists' directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill
all Americans and make no distinctions among military and civilians,
including women and children. Why they don't pick on Denmark or Australia
beats the heck out of me.
They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to
camps in places like Afghanistan where they are trained in the tactics of
terror. They are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in countries around
the world to plot evil and destruction. Everyone knows this, if they are
familiar with the historical works of Stallone, or read Marvel publications.
The leadership of Al Qaeda has great influence in Afghanistan and supports
the Taliban regime in controlling most of that country. In Afghanistan we
see al Qaeda's vision for the world. Afghanistan's people have been
brutalized, many are starving and many have fled.
Women are not allowed to attend school. You can be jailed for owning a
television. Religion can be practiced only as their leaders dictate. A man
can be jailed in Afghanistan if his beard is not long enough. Knowing this,
you ask, why did we give the Taliban $43 million a couple of months ago.
Simple. We thought at the time they could guarantee Unocal's pipeline, so we
didn't sweat the small stuff.
The United States respects the people of Afghanistan -- as we do all of our
bombees and others we threaten with annihilation. After all, we are
currently its largest source of er, humanitarian aid -- but we condemn the
Taliban regime who are now in our way.
Tonight the United States of America makes the following demands on the
Taliban.
Deliver to United States authorities whomver we tell you to. And don't keep
nagging us for evidence. We don't have to show you any stinking evidence.
Release all foreign nationals, including American citizens you have unjustly
imprisoned. Protect foreign journalists, diplomats and aid workers in your
country and stop holding up their mail from Langley. Close immediately and
permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. And hand over
every terrorist and every person and their support structure to appropriate
authorities.
Give the United States full access to terrorist training camps. We need
them. The Liblabs here have shut down ours at The School for the Americas.
Inasmuch as you have no defense against our bombs, these demands are not open
to negotiation or discussion.
Once you accede to our demands, we will resume financing your fundamentalism,
as we do Saudi Arabia's.
I also want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world. We
respect your faith. But this is a free country, and that is why we allow our
legislators and TV celebrities to refer to you as diaper-heads. Your faith
is practiced freely by many millions of Americans and by millions more in
countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and
peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name
of Allah. But Operation Infinite Mendacity is going to change all that.
The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. It is not our many Arab
friends. It is not our friends. It is our enemy. When we ask you to
disembark a plane so that regular Americans can travel safely, do not take it
personally. Get that chip off your shoulders.
Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there.
It will not end until all evil has been found, all evildoers stopped and
defeated, including the ones they call the Joker and the Penguin.
Americans are asking ''Why do they hate us?''
They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected
government. (LAUGHTER)
Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of
religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote (LAUGHTER) and assemble
and disagree with each other.
They want to overthrow existing governments in many Muslim countries
including the Saudi Arabian democracy.
We're not deceived by their pretenses to piety.
We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous
ideologies of the 20th century. Indeed, who but Muslims started the two world
wars that took 70 million lives? Who is responsible for Korea and Vietnam?
Americans are asking, ''How can America and its allies possibly defeat a man
who is hiding in a cave in the poorest country on earth?"
We will direct every resource at our command -- every means of diplomacy,
every tool of intelligence (by the way, does anyone here know Farsi?), every
instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary
weapon of war.
Now, this war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, when
Americans laughed along with Stormin' Norman at the sight of terrified Iraqis
scurrying to escape our surgical bombs. We may not go back to the good old
days of the Highway of Death, but I guarantee there will again be stragglers
to strafe. And soon Americans will once more wake up to find themselves
bombarding a country they cannot locate on a map.
It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where not a
single American was lost in combat. Think of that. We bombed a country for
months, wreaked havoc on its infrastructure, killed and maimed thousands of
its citizens, and we didn't lose a single hero. And still some people hate
us.
Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated air
strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign
unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes visible
on TV and covert operations, the details of which shall not be revealed until
all of us are long dead.
We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive
them from place to place until there is no refuge or no rest. As Mark said:
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our
shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their
patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of
their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with
a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows
with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children
to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger
and thirst . . .
And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism or,
this time, draft dodgers. Every nation in every region now has a decision to
make: Either serve our machine or be considered terrorists.
Today, dozens of federal departments and agencies, as well as state and local
governments, have responsibilities affecting homeland security.
These efforts must be coordinated at the highest level. So tonight, I
announce the creation of a Cabinet-level position reporting directly to me, I
call it the General Emergency Section Tracking Anti-American Populist
Opposition.
These measures are essential.
Many will be involved in this effort, from FBI agents, now free to employ
sleazier sleazebags as intelligence operatives, to the teams that are once
again authorized to assassinate the leaders of other nations. All deserve
our thanks, and all have our prayers.
I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy as
it plunges toward the abyss.
America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise
of people who frequently cannot afford a roof over their heads. These were
the true strengths of our economy before September 11. and they are our
strengths today.
Tonight I thank my fellow Americans for what you have already done and for
what you are about to do without even being aware that you are doing it.
And ladies and gentlemen of the Congress, I thank you, their representatives,
for what you have already done to help untangle us from the restrictions of
the Bill of Rights and granting me absolute power.
We will come together to promote stability and keep our airlines flying with
direct assistance during this emergency. Ordinary people will have to fend
for themselves.
We will come together to take active steps that strengthen America's economy
and put our people back to work, although first we will have to finish
turning them out into the cold, and that may take time.
In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom and may he watch uniquely
over the United States of America, because we are the only country that truly
honors the separation of church and state.
Thank you.
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