[Humor] Bush's next job

[Mary Ann Horton]

From: Wm Leler (Courtesy of Yucks)

Bush's Next Job

By Bill Ferguson
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Salt Lake Tribune, 2006

Every great career eventually comes to an end, and
when you're the President of these United States,
you only get eight years (at most) to accomplish
everything you set out to do. Then you're an
ex-president for the rest of your life.
I'll bet that ex-presidents, like most retired
people, find it to be something of a shock to have
all that time on their hands when they leave the
working world. So they find things to do. They work
on their memoirs. They build libraries. They give
speeches. They support their favorite charitable
causes.

But what about our current President? His term will
be up before he knows it, and then it's back to
private life. I'm afraid the transition will be
especially difficult for Dubya. He is a man of
action, and I worry about how he'll adjust to a life
out of the spotlight.

I think that we, as a nation, owe Bush more than the
customary parting gifts of an enormous pension and
round-the-clock Secret Service protection when he
leaves office. I think we can do better for him. I
think we should put him to work, and I know just
where he ought to go. Iraq.

There is no question that Iraq will be the legacy of
President Bush's tenure, and there is also no doubt
that there will still be a lot of work to do there
when he leaves office. I believe we should allow
Bush an opportunity to stick with the job even after
his term expires.

The next president should appoint George W. Bush to
be a special envoy to Iraq and charge him with the
responsibility to oversee all American interests
there, advise the new Iraqi government, and maintain
the morale of American troops who are carrying out
the war effort. The position should be a permanent
one, and he would not leave until the "hard work" of
helping Iraq to establish a working democratic
government has been accomplished. Or until he leaves
this mortal coil, whichever comes first.

But I do not believe Bush should go to Iraq alone.
He needs some trusted advisors by his side at all
times, and the first two names that immediately
spring to mind are Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld.
These men have been instrumental in the planning and
execution of the Iraq campaign from the beginning,
and I can only imagine how much more effective their
work could be if they were onsite 24/7, right where
the action is, getting their hands dirty in the
cause of spreading freedom to that dark corner of
the world.

I know this assignment would be dangerous. The three
senior freedom fighters would be huge targets for
the forces of evil in Iraq, and there is a real
possibility that one or more of them might meet with
an untimely demise in that chaotic environment. But
as Bush has reminded us time and again, the price is
high, but our cause is just. Freedom is not free.

I expect that all three men would be ready and
willing to undertake their assignments in the battle
zone, despite the extreme danger they would face.
This would be a chance to show the world that they
are willing to put their own lives, not just the
lives of others, on the line for what they know to
be right.

So let's start a campaign to send the
Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld team to Iraq in 2008. They
deserve the opportunity to "finish the job" in Iraq,
and I think that the sight of the three of them
tooling around the streets of Baghdad in a lightly
armored Humvee would do a lot to improve the morale
of all Americans.

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