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March 21, 2054

Half a century ago, in a speech at the United Nations, in August 2004, George W. Bush stated: ?The roots of radicalism and terrorism are not an evil chiasm, but the simple fact that populations are lacking what Americans and Western Europeans take for granted: food, water, housing, education, and health care. This will be henceforth the policy and politics of our great nation to transform the despair of the unfortunate into a ray of hope toward equality. America will grow greater in peace and harmony, not by primarily engaging war against rogue nations, but by investing in world peace, harmony and well-being, hereby preventing challenged nations to become rogue nations.?

These sentences, which will later be quoted as the postulate of the Bush doctrine, fundamentally transformed the role and outlook of the United States in the world.

G.W Bush, son of a President, was himself elected President, after what remained, till today, the most controversial presidential vote in American history. He was reelected in 2004, beating a Democratic Senator, J. Kerry, by a whisker. Under Bush, the office of the American President was transformed into the office for Free World Leadership.

The multi-trillion dollar Pentagon budget was radically trimmed, and the money allocated to new a Marshall Plan for the Third World. Armies of the U.S and of its allies learned to serve as Peace Corps in order to bring nation building capabilities to people whose needs were so basic that engaging in suicide bombing was a gesture toward dignity.

In less than a decade, thanks to the Bush doctrine, illiteracy, homelessness, water shortage, and infant mortality were swiftly curtailed in Southeast Asia and Africa. AIDS was contained; the disease became a treatable condition, not a destroyer of civilization. The Caribbean became an extension of Florida, in terms of development. In Europe, the East grew into an equal partner for the West.

The Palestinians obtained a land; they became the premier trading partners for the Jewish state. The Middle East is now a hub for science and commerce, and no longer a factory of terrorists.

Exactly 51 years after the historic 2003 American invasion of Iraq, the U.S Senate joined the House, and voted yesterday to make G.W. Bush the fifth face on Mount Rushmore, among the fathers of the nation.

In the aftermath of the vote, President Yamhile Yamashito, the first U.S President of Asian ascent, declared at a White House Rose Garden ceremony, that she will sign the measure into law. Yamashito, by all measures, has been one of the most vocal supporters of the proposition.

?George W. Bush made 21st century America into the exporter of peace, wealth, progress, education, civilization, and racial equality. He initiated for the world at large what Abraham Lincoln initiated for America. George W. Bush?s vision, of compassionate conservatism, made the world a better place for the human species. Bush deserves his place in History, his place on Rushmore,? said Yamashito.

Reporting from the second half of the 21st Century,

on March 21, 2054.

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(OdlerRobert Jeanlouie, Sunday, March 21, 2004)