Post by James G on Mar 7, 2018 19:34:13 GMT
(premise based off this event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arutyunian)
On May 10th 2005, George W. Bush is in the small nation of Georgia where he is attending an outdoor event with his wife alongside the president and first lady of that country. A hand grenade is thrown towards the podium where the two presidents are seated. It was wrapped in a red handkerchief but that comes loose during the flight. The grenade detonates.
Bush is killed while his wife Laura is badly injured. Saakashvili is unharmed though his wife is killed as well. Another three dignitaries die with five more seriously wounded. The grenade exploded when airborne, showering those it was targeted against with shrapnel and therefore causing the many deaths and injuries which it does. Panic ensues and the assassin gets away from the scene.
Once the demise of Bush is confirmed, Vice President Dick Cheney is sworn-in as the new president back home in the United States. He leads a nation in mourning (Bush 43 is suddenly fondly remembered and all is forgiven) but one after vengeance too. Georgia comes under intense pressure to identify and find the culprit. This is the first time that an American president has been killed on foreign soil. Georgia is an ally but there are limits to Cheney’s patience with them. Saakashvili is browbeaten to allow the deployment of US special forces into Georgia to hunt for the ‘Islamist terrorists’ who assassinated Bush. When discovered though, Bush’s killer is a Georgian national and not a Muslim either. He acted in response to one of the many post-Soviet frozen conflicts in the Caucasus – the independence of Adjara – and not on behalf of Al Qaeda nor the Iraq War. No evidence, no matter how fudged, can be found to link him to bin Laden.
Cheney states he doesn’t intend to run for election in 2008. He point-blank refuses to do so. He also needs a new vice president. There is much political drama over who will take that position and it will have to be someone who the US Senate will approve. Many names are bounded about. In the end, Cheney goes with someone unexpected: Condoleezza ‘Condi’ Rice, the current Secretary of State. Unanimous (well… almost) approval comes. Condi accepts and is sworn-in a month after Bush’s murder. Like Cheney, she states she won’t be running in ’08 for the presidency. Many take that as a ‘maybe she will’ but they are wrong: she will not be in the running despite countless efforts from home and abroad to get her to do so. After primary campaigns for the ’08 presidential election, it will be Obama & Bayh for the Democrats and McCain & Ridge for the Republicans fighting to be elected in November.
Obama wins the election. Days later, tragedy strikes when Cheney is stuck down with a massive stroke. He is rushed from the White House to hospital. All attempts are made to save him and partial success comes in that. The president is alive but in a coma. It isn’t known when he will wake from that, if he will at all. The US Government acts. On November 13th ‘08, Condi Rice takes the oath of office. She will be the President of the United States until January 20th ’09. Rice is the first woman and the first African-American to hold such a position.
On May 10th 2005, George W. Bush is in the small nation of Georgia where he is attending an outdoor event with his wife alongside the president and first lady of that country. A hand grenade is thrown towards the podium where the two presidents are seated. It was wrapped in a red handkerchief but that comes loose during the flight. The grenade detonates.
Bush is killed while his wife Laura is badly injured. Saakashvili is unharmed though his wife is killed as well. Another three dignitaries die with five more seriously wounded. The grenade exploded when airborne, showering those it was targeted against with shrapnel and therefore causing the many deaths and injuries which it does. Panic ensues and the assassin gets away from the scene.
Once the demise of Bush is confirmed, Vice President Dick Cheney is sworn-in as the new president back home in the United States. He leads a nation in mourning (Bush 43 is suddenly fondly remembered and all is forgiven) but one after vengeance too. Georgia comes under intense pressure to identify and find the culprit. This is the first time that an American president has been killed on foreign soil. Georgia is an ally but there are limits to Cheney’s patience with them. Saakashvili is browbeaten to allow the deployment of US special forces into Georgia to hunt for the ‘Islamist terrorists’ who assassinated Bush. When discovered though, Bush’s killer is a Georgian national and not a Muslim either. He acted in response to one of the many post-Soviet frozen conflicts in the Caucasus – the independence of Adjara – and not on behalf of Al Qaeda nor the Iraq War. No evidence, no matter how fudged, can be found to link him to bin Laden.
Cheney states he doesn’t intend to run for election in 2008. He point-blank refuses to do so. He also needs a new vice president. There is much political drama over who will take that position and it will have to be someone who the US Senate will approve. Many names are bounded about. In the end, Cheney goes with someone unexpected: Condoleezza ‘Condi’ Rice, the current Secretary of State. Unanimous (well… almost) approval comes. Condi accepts and is sworn-in a month after Bush’s murder. Like Cheney, she states she won’t be running in ’08 for the presidency. Many take that as a ‘maybe she will’ but they are wrong: she will not be in the running despite countless efforts from home and abroad to get her to do so. After primary campaigns for the ’08 presidential election, it will be Obama & Bayh for the Democrats and McCain & Ridge for the Republicans fighting to be elected in November.
Obama wins the election. Days later, tragedy strikes when Cheney is stuck down with a massive stroke. He is rushed from the White House to hospital. All attempts are made to save him and partial success comes in that. The president is alive but in a coma. It isn’t known when he will wake from that, if he will at all. The US Government acts. On November 13th ‘08, Condi Rice takes the oath of office. She will be the President of the United States until January 20th ’09. Rice is the first woman and the first African-American to hold such a position.
