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"When In Rome- Do as the Romanians Do!" -our dear Dubya

“I Want My Flight Suit!” http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles5/Waters_Leak7.htm

Leaked White House Transcript (7)
by Lee Waters

Dissident Voice
June 2, 2003

BUSH, CHENEY, ROVE, RIDGE, ASHCROFT, RUMSFELD

PRESIDENT BUSH: Good morning, Gentlemen.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Hello, George.

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Reporting for duty!

KARL ROVE: It’s good to see you all today. It is seldom
that I am moved to great emotion. But this is one of those
days. We have accomplished one of the great goals of right-
thinking people in the last seven decades. We have finally
and definitively abolished Social Security. And along with it,
Medicare and Medicaid. I hope you all realize the
magnitude of what we have accomplished.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Yes, Karl. It’s a proud moment
for all of us.

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: You got it, Karl. I hope that damn
socialist Franklin D.---for Demented---Roosevelt is doing
wheelies in his grave.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: An act of social terrorism
has been reversed. At last the American people can be free
of their retirement funds. And their health insurance.

PRESIDENT BUSH: What does kicking Saddam Hussein’s
butt have to do with eliminating Social Security?

KARL ROVE: The tax cut, George. We’ve bankrupted Social
Security. We could never take it on directly. Too hot, politically.
So we just chopped the money out of the fund. We’ve gutted
$800 billion out of the federal treasury. There’s no money
left for any social programs. The only people that seem to
have noticed are the usual liberals. Krugman. Ivins. The
Nation. They’ll get theirs soon enough.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: Pointing out that Social
Security has been abolished is an act of terrorism.

SECRETARY RIDGE: But sir, soon many elderly people will be
bankrupt. They won’t have food to eat, and they won’t
have medical care and they won’t be able to work.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Hell, Tom, if people that old haven’t saved
enough in this land of opportunity to take care of themselves,
then they just aren’t fit to live. Or to call themselves Americans.
Look at the Bush family. Each of us has worked hard and saved
plenty. When we retire we’ll be just fine. Why can’t everybody
else be like us? And if they can’t be, they can just go to
Jesus. He’ll take care of them. Unless they’re Jews.
Or Islamites.

VICE-PRESIDENT CHENEY: It’s all down to basics now. There
are three legitimate functions of government and only three:
fund our military, subsidize our corporate contributors,
arrest our opponents. All else is now officially unfunded.

SECRETARY RIDGE: Aren’t we also supposed to protect the
country from terrorism?

KARL ROVE: Yes and no, Tom. It’s nice to talk about. But
we need a healthy taste of terrorism now and then to keep
the public, well, terrorized. We don’t want people getting
too comfortable. Makes ‘em soft. Makes ‘em think
they don’t need us.

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Even makes ‘em think there could
be a future for the Democratic Party.

ALL: Loud, prolonged laughter.

KARL ROVE: Well, before we get too smug here, just
remember why it was necessary to kill Mel Carnahan and
Paul Wellstone when we did. You can’t take chances. Those
two votes were the margin that got us the tax cut that
killed Social Security. You just never know.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Right. Same with Clarence
Thomas. Remember, George, how your Dad stuck to his
guns about putting Clarence on the Supreme Court even
though the nation was in an uproar? Then who wound
up putting you in the White House?

KARL ROVE: And never forget all those wimp Democrats
that voted for him. Never underestimate the willingness of
a liberal to cut his own throat.

SECRETARY RIDGE: So why is it necessary to keep Joe
Lieberman and Al From and Terry McAuliffe on our payroll?
Why can’t we just use the money for other things?

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Hell, it’s petty cash. Those guys
would lick a latrine to make themselves look
mainstream.

SECRETARY RIDGE: But we don’t have sufficient funds to
protect our harbors, our airliners, our nuclear plants….

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: There’s no money for schools
either, Tom. That’s the point. Except for our specific uses,
government is over. Democracy is over. The Bill of Rights
is history. The American nation finally being ruled by
the people who are fit to rule it. US!!!!

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Watch your ticker there, Dick.
We don’t want you keeling over at the helm during
your big moment.

KARL ROVE: Right. Remember what happened to Nelson
Rockefeller.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Nelson Rockefeller? What happened?
Did he lose his Medicaid?

KARL ROVE: Let’s just say he died in the saddle.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Nelson Rockefeller was a cowboy? Did
he have a ranch like mine?

ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: No sir, he didn’t. But
speaking of cowboys, there’s an Indian I think we should
be concerned about. His name is Tecumseh.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Who was Tecumseh?

ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: I don’t exactly know. He
keeps turning up on leftist web sites. We’re having the
FBI investigate.

SECRETARY RIDGE: Tecumseh was Chief of the Ohio
Shawnee. He was born near Chillicothe, south of what’s
now Columbus. He was a remarkable leader who spoke five
languages and assembled a large coalition of tribes against
the whites. But he was defeated by William Henry Harrison
at Fallen Timbers in 1813. His body was never found.

KARL ROVE: Right, and they later called it Tippicanoe,
because it sounded better for Harrison’s campaign.
I can relate to that.

SECRETARY RIDGE: Tecumseh was a uniquely powerful
spiritual figure. In 1840 Harrison was elected president.
When he died a month after being inaugurated,
they called it “Tecumseh’s Curse.”

PRESIDENT BUSH: So?

SECRETARY RIDGE: After that, every president elected on
the 20th year died in office, and ONLY those presidents. It
was Lincoln in 1860, Garfield in 1880, McKinley in 1900,
Harding in 1920, Roosevelt in 1940 and Kennedy in 1960.

KARL ROVE: But then there was Reagan in 1980.

SECRETARY RIDGE: Reagan was shot, of course. When he
didn’t die there were those who said that lifted the curse.
But how much of Ronald Reagan was actually left?

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Not too damn much. By 1986,
Nancy was running the show. She dumped Don Regan. She
shut down the fundamentalists. She kissed up to Gorby.
She wanted ending the Cold War to be Ronnie’s
legacy. What a nightmare.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: God, what a bitch she was.
Hillary in drag.

PRESIDENT BUSH: So what’s that got to do with me?

SECRETARY RIDGE: Well, sir, you were elected in 2000.
That’s a twentieth year. Some people think Tecumseh
might be out to get you.

PRESIDENT BUSH: But he’s dead. Right? Isn’t he?

KARL ROVE: We can’t let these things fester, George. I’ve
seen this Tecumseh stuff on the web sites. It’s a perception
thing. We’ve got to stamp it out now.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: All mention of Tecumseh
is an act of terrorism.

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Just do a search and destroy on
Tecumseh’s name. Arrest anybody that talks about him or
his curse. Crash their web sites. Burn the text books.
Delete the dictionaries.

KARL ROVE: He who controls the past controls the present.

SECRETARY RIDGE: There’s a town in Michigan named Tecumseh.

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Bomb it. We can hit Ann Arbor, too.
By mistake.

PRESIDENT BUSH: I don’t like this. It makes me feel creepy.
Like when I sat on that toilet seat in Alabama. Where’s my
flight suit? I want my flight suit.

KARL ROVE: No need to panic, George. After all, you weren’t
really ELECTED in 2000. So it’s probably not relevant.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Right. That’s right. All those other guys
were really elected, weren’t they. I was appointed. We lost
by 500,000 votes. That should count for something.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: George, calm down. Tecumseh
can’t hurt you any more than all those negroes we expunged
from the voter rolls in Florida. It’s all just smoke and
mirrors. Relax.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, I think we should do something to
divert attention, then. How about we attack Iran.

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Great idea, sir. We’re already on it.
Those towelheads won’t know what hit them.

SECRETARY RIDGE: But there are more than 50 million
people in Iran. They are much more powerful than Iraq. Their
government is not unpopular. We haven’t been bombing them
for 12 years. We haven’t starved them with sanctions. We
haven’t sent in the UN to disarm them. We might
be asking for trouble.

KARL ROVE: Trouble is good, Tom. We like trouble wherever
we can create it. Look what we’re doing to the state governments.
They’re all at each other’s throats, and the public is disgusted.
That’s exactly what we want. Disillusionment. Depression. Denial.
A public that is dispirited and downtrodden is a public that will
let us do whatever the hell we want.

SECRETARY RIDGE: Yes, sir, but there’s quite a bit of anger
about not finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well they didn’t find Tecumseh, either, and
he’s still out to kill me. So why should anybody care about
Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction? We all knew he
didn’t have them anyway.

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Yeah, and that idiot Jew Wolfowitz
just got quoted that the whole thing was just a sham. Why do
we let people like that continue to live?

KARL ROVE: Oh, hell Don, what counts more: that a few
journalists know we lied, or that Showtime is making a movie
about September 11 showing George to be a cross between
Moses and God. When that thing airs it will be Gospel.
Nobody’s going to remember Saddam Hussein
or weapons of mass destruction.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Does it show how I saved Private Lynch?
That was really one of my great moments. I was
wearing my flight suit.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Right, George. And that Congressional
report on 9/11 can go straight in the trash can. All that stuff about
us ignoring warnings and opening the door to Osama. Nobody’s
going to read it. Nobody’s going to cover it. We’ve got George
on Mt. Rushmore and all that sweet Iraqi oil driving down
gas prices just in time for 2004.

KARL ROVE: Plus Michael Powell burying what’s left of the
media. It’s all about pre-emption. It’s all about staying
ahead of the game.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: Along those lines, gentlemen,
we are now rolling out the very latest in law-enforcement. It’s
called pre-emptive detention. It’s based on the same theory
we used to justify attacking Iraq. We we went to war saying
Saddam might have weapons of mass destruction and might
be thinking about using them. So now we can say that if
someone might be thinking about opposing our
policies, we can have him arrested.

KARL ROVE: It’s beautiful, John. I read where you are
grabbing people who like they might be heading to a
demonstration. Excellent. We can’t take any chances.

VICE-PRESIDENT CHENEY: You also arrested some jerk
who brought a United Nations flag to the President’s cavalcade
in Indiana. Why didn’t you just shoot him?

PRESIDENT BUSH: I saw that flag. It was scary.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: Having the appearance of
going to a demonstration is an act of terrorism. Carrying
a United Nations flag is an act of terrorism.

SECRETARY RIDGE: There is also a movement growing
to demand paper ballots. They claim the voting machines
are rigged. They want a paper trail.

KARL ROVE: Ignore them. Nobody’s going to cover them.
We’re using the Florida model nationwide now to eliminate
millions of black and Hispanic voters. Like Wellstone and
Carnahan, leave nothing to chance.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL ASHCROFT: Advocating paper ballots
is clearly an act of terrorism.

KARL ROVE: It’s only a matter of mop-up, now. Total mind
control. No social programs. No educational system. No
independent media. We are God. Who can stand before us?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, I’m worried, Karl. That goddam
Tecumseh. I don’t want him out there threatening me.
I want him found. I want him destroyed.

SECRETARY RUMSFELD: Got it, sir. When can we attack Detroit?