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Bush Showing Leadership: Joins Operation Iraqi Freedom Reenactment Group
From http://www.mikeszine.com/

President Bush has asked all senior White House staff to join his Operation Iraqi Freedom Reenactment Group. The President feels that the country has not seen him in a leadership position since he landed on the aircraft carrier a few years ago. The reenactment SEAL Unit that Bush will lead consists of senior White House staff, few of which have had real military training. “I really hope that I can stay up with George,” said Vice President Dick Cheney. “There are few people that can show leadership the way the President does.”

“Saturday’s reenactment was staged in the rose garden,” said Bush Press Secretary Ari Flecher. “No one really wanted to be in one of the Iraqi units, so we decided to use some of those Hurricane Katrina evacuees. They’ll work for half a dozen MREs and a FEMA trailer. The Bush administration needs to show the American people that we can both demonstrate leadership and cut government waste.

The reenactment started at dawn as mortars and artillery were launched over the rose garden and the evacuees in their Iraqi military uniforms scattered for cover. A Chinook Helicopter sprayed the area with blanks as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz repelled into the middle of the rose garden. Cheney and Rumsfeld sprayed suppressive fire as Bush and Wolfowitz took out an Iraqi machine gun nest and scud launcher.

After the reenactment, a reporter asked Bush how he felt about the event. “We kicked some ass today,” said President Bush still nursing a false wound that he received in hand-to-hand combat with another reenactor. “Did you see the way I took out that Iraqi battalion by myself? Tell me if John Kerry could have shown that kind of leadership. Well, could he?”

In order to keep the reenactment as authentic as possible real American Contractors were used to supply the troops. The Gatorade that Bush’s platoon drank after the battle was supplied by Halliburton’s subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root at forty-seven dollars a glass.
.........http://www.mikeszine.com/issue7_bushreenactment.html

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