Fiction: Presidential Vote

“The question before the floor, during this special assembly, is whether to declare former President George W. Bush the worst president our great nation has ever suffered. Joe-Pete, you wanted to go first.”

Joe-Pete walked to the podium next to the leader’s throne.

“Thank you, Your Grand Imperial Exaltedness. As president, George W. Bush was fully complicit in these matters:

“1) lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so as to start a war that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis and the execution of Saddam Hussein;

“2) torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq;

“3) holding suspected al-Qaida soldiers in Guantanamo Bay and torturing them and not permitting them access to legal representation and keeping them there for years without charging them with any crimes; and

“4) wrecking the national economy to the especial detriment of the Jewish money cabal and generally bringing the rest of the nation down to our level here in Scratchass County.

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