to defect and left in the middle of the night taking their weapons and vehicles with them.”
The president cursed and threw a vase at the aide who delivered the bad news.
“Martha, call a cabinet meeting for two o'clock and get it done now!”
The men and women sitting around the table were totally demoralized and there were several empty seats.
The president began by stating, “Five of my team and eleven family members were killed during the dastardly attack by the cowardly ISA. It appears that they enlisted help from some Canadian sympathizers to attack not only the USA, but also the UN in the USA and Canada. They blew up a jet taking the UN Security Chief for the USA back to Africa. I plan to meet with the Joint Chiefs and have them formulate a devastating response this evening. This cannot go unpunished!”
***
"Sir, I have made contact with the ISA. I have a Major Mills on the radio.”
“Thanks, corporal, I’ll talk to him now.”
“Major Mills, this is Colonel Moreland. I command the 2nd Battalion, 501st Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82 nd Airborne and we need a new home. Perhaps it took too long to leave the USA, but we took our oaths seriously. It took awhile before we knew that our country had been hijacked by this traitor they call president.”
“Sir, we need to meet and determine if we have a mutually beneficial solution to your homelessness. We are in a fight for our lives and if you join us, you will be fighting the USA, the UN and at least one Mexican drug gang. Are y’all being followed and how soon will you be at our border?”
“I had that talk with the troops. We lost 20 percent who decided to stay. The rest will fight for their new country. We are not being followed, but Major, to tell you the truth no one appears to know where our common border is located. We know that you own everything south of Tennessee in our area.”
“Okay, how soon will you cross into Kentucky? We can meet you at Franklin on the Tennessee/Kentucky border at Highway 65. Franklin is just a few miles south of Bowling Green.”
“Will do. We should be there on Wednesday about 1400. Do you have air cover for us if it gets hot?"
“We are tracking you now and will be able to give you air cover when you get south of Elizabethtown, Kentucky.”
“Are you bringing any aircraft?”
“Yes, but not enough to fight off any significant attack from the air. We have many more pilots than aircraft. It appears that y’all captured most of them before you left the USA. We’ll send a status report to you ASAP with troop strength and an equipment list.”
“WE prefer to say that the USA left us. We make a good fit. We have more aircraft than we have pilots to crew them. Looking forward to meeting you.”
“Same here.”
***
The president was throwing another tantrum as he walked into the meeting with the Joint Chiefs.
“Tell the senators from North and South Dakota that I will bomb them into the Stone Age if they attempt to secede from the USA. Get the Field Marshalls on the phone now!”
The president’s aide replied, “They hung both Field Marshalls yesterday.”
“Tell them that we are at war effective today!”
The president sat down, wiped his brow and tried to compose himself. He looked around the table and knew most of these people would cut his throat if he gave them half a chance. He would purge the non-believers over the next year. He needed a strong and loyal team to defeat the ISA and retake the original 50 states.
The president smiled and said, “I need a plan to take back the Dakotas before winter sets in and operations come to a halt. I want the plan by Friday. General, give me a status update on our losses and readiness.”
“Sir, first, we do not have the depth to continue the fight against the ISA and retake the Dakotas. We have more chiefs and technicians than actual soldiers who can fight. We are short on equipment and fuel. The DHS outnumbers the military, but
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