United States Invaded (26 page)

“Can’t get anything past you can I?”

“Nope. So what’s on your mind?”

“I heard a wild rumor that Reid is in trouble with his own national police force. Something about kiddie porn?”

“Why are you asking me? Do you think I could hack Reid’s computer?”

“Not you personally, but our new best friends, Anonymous could easily have done it.”

“Are you asking me if I know anything? I don’t think anyone has any control over Anonymous. They have proven they can hack anyone’s computer. But, before you say anything, I have no first-hand knowledge of what’s going on in the LSA. If the rumor you heard is true, and I hope it is, it couldn’t have happened to a better person.”

Both laugh.

Rash responds, “I wish I were a fly on the wall to see how he talks his way out of this one.”

Sarah says, “Do you think it’s enough to bring down his administration?”

“I guess we’ll know pretty soon. I understand the good people of the LSA are shortly going to learn about their President-For-Life little hobby.”

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“President Puten, President Brownstone turned down our proposal.”

“Of course, he did Ambassador, I expected him to turn it down, which is why it was worded the way it was. We needed him to turn it down. If he agreed, how could we get our people onto his bases?”

“Remember the goal, we want to crush their will, so their people welcome us when we disarm them.”

“Ambassador, I would like you to carry a handwritten letter from me to President Brownstone as a last offer. Please wait for a response and return his response to me here in Moscow.”

“Of course Mr. President. When will the letter be available?”

“Here it is. I’d like you to make sure it’s handed to President Brownstone himself and you’re there when he breaks the wax seal.”

“Yes sir.”

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The United Nations’ Secretary-General flies to Washington to meet with President Brownstone. He’s led into the Situation Room.

“Mr. Secretary-General, please excuse the accommodations, we’re doing a little remodeling to the White House.”

“Mr. President, we’re all thankful you survived the attack. May we get right down to business?”

“Of course, what is it you needed to see me about?”

“Mr. President, I’m here to implore you to accept the will of the people of the world. I beg you to accept the vote of the General Assembly. If you don’t, there are going to be very bad repercussions for the United States. The world’s people have decided the risk to the world from nuclear weapons is too great. They want to feel safe; the world’s people want to feel secure.”

“Mr. Secretary-General, I only care about the people of the United States of America. The people of the United States don’t want to be part of a world government. We want to be left alone. We don’t want a war with the rest of the world.”

“Mr. President, if you agree to sign the disarmament treaty the other nations who walked out will also sign. For once the entire world will be a nuclear-free zone. For once the entire world will be truly united. I’m sure you see how close we are to truly having world peace.”

“Mr. Secretary-General, the United Nations didn’t bring peace. All of the various interconnected treaties hasn’t prevented countries from attacking others. I’m going to announce this evening the United States of America is resigning from all treaties and agreements with the exception of the new council of the fourteen. As of today all previously purchased travel visas for United Nations diplomats are revoked, they are null and void. No diplomats other than the council of the fourteen will be allowed entry into the United States.”

“Mr. President, you can’t do that, we all agreed to an open borders policy for diplomats.”

“You’re correct; we did as members of the United Nations, however as the United States is no longer a member of the United Nations, we are terminating all agreements and treaties with the United Nations. If there is nothing else, you came to see me about. I have to ask you to leave our terrortiy.”

“Mr. President, you can’t do this! If the fourteen of you resign and block access to the rest of the world’s diplomats, it will be impossible to freely negotiate treaties to preserve peace.    Mr. President, frankly I’d hoped you would reconsider your resignation from the world body.  We need your voice in the General Assembly. We require your support. The world counts on your support.”

“You only require the amounts we paid. You only require us in the General Assembly, so you have a common enemy to blame. The United States invested over 50 years trying to make the United Nations fulfill its mission, to bring peace to the world. It failed. You failed. If there is nothing else, you came to see me about. I have to ask you to leave our territory.”

Chapter 18

President Brownstone calls an emergency cabinet meeting for 1:00 PM in the Situation Room. The President kicks off the meeting saying, “Thank you for coming on such short notice. We need to discuss the current situation - the Russian Ambassador and the Secretary-General both have warned me that if we don’t agree to sign the worldwide nuclear disarmament treaty, the United Nations will form an international army and invade us, forcing us to surrender our nuclear weapons and launch systems by force. We can expect the invasion will be staged from the LSA. This will enable them to invade us across a large front on both coasts at the same time. Our forces will be spread very thin.”

John asks, “Mr. President, did they give you any indication of when this invasion will take place?”

“John, no, however we will see their troops arriving in the LSA, they can’t stop us from seeing them arriving. We’ll see them moving to the border, so we’ll have an indication of where and when.”

Ted leans back in his chair, looking at the ceiling he completes the thought, he looks the President in the eyes, saying, “Mr. President, can’t we designate their ships as containing contraband and sink them before they arrive at an LSA port?”

“How do we legally manage that?”

“We declare the LSA is planning to invade us, to stop the loss of innocent life, we declare a quarantine zone and stop, search every ship going to the LSA.”

John replies, “Ted, a naval blockade is an act of war.”

“John, what difference will it make? Since we know they’re going to attack us, why can’t we attack them first? We do what the military calls a spoiling attack.”

John thinks about it a minute, then responds, “Why wouldn’t they just invade us from Mexico?”

“Steve smiles answering, “Because the good Governor of Texas built this nice big wall between Mexico and Texas. He turned the southern border into a no man’s land.”

Sarah, replies, “I think we should quickly do the same thing with the border in Arizona.”

“Sarah, as Secretary of the Interior, please take care of it. Ask Governor Lawson for the design specifications he used.”

Rash asks, “Is there no way, other than signing the treaty, to avoid war? War is never good for PR."

President Brownstone sighs, saying, “Rash, I wish there were, I think this is more about crushing us than nuclear weapons. The United Nations and Russia would like nothing better than seeing the United States taken down a few pegs. If we’re disarmed, then Puten will be able to rule the world. We know he’ll never turn in all of his weapons of mass destruction. The other shoe I’m going to drop on you is, we have proof a Russian Spetsnaz Captain was in Minot; his DNA was found on the Air Force technicians’ uniforms; we have to assume he set off the warhead.”

The Situation Room exploded with everyone talking at the same time. President Brownstone let the talking go on for a few minutes before saying, “Everyone, who here believed that one of our warheads just woke up and decided to explode all on its own? You all should know they don’t operate that way. Somehow the Russians got a hold of our PAL code, enabling them to detonate the warhead.”

Three secretaries yelled out, “Reid had to be helping them.”

“Yes, that’s what I think too. He must have gotten someone in the Air Force to help him.”

Alvin responds, “So the war has already begun. Why didn’t you tell us that first? I’m thinking; Puten offered Reid he would crush us and then support the merging back together of the LSA and USA, putting Reid in charge.”

“Alvin, that’s my take on it too. I think that it means they will confine their attacks to our military bases. Reid won’t want to attack the cities; he’s planning on generating his tax revenue from them. We can bet on this and move our forces away from defending the cities.”

Alvin replies, “We can designate the cities as open cities.”

Randy, who's been listening to the discussion, says, “Mr. President, I think if the facts bear out President Reid planned with President Puten to detonate the nuke in Minot, which killed thousands of our people, and he’s working with Puten on invading us, we need to release the information we have.  The information will shake up the people of the LSA, at the same time we can make them an offer to come back into the USA. If we can pour enough dirt on Reid, we might be able to get many of the LSA citizens to say enough is enough, we could threaten to respond in kind, since Reid and Puten struck us with a nuke, we can say, we’ll do the same. The average liberal in the LSA will crap their pants if they think their city is going to be turned into Minot.”

“Randy, won’t making that statement cause the rest of the world to be even more upset with us?”

“Can they get any angrier with us? They all want what we have. The world plotted to destroy us financially, we turned the tables on them and came back stronger than ever. The world has always been jealous of America. They can’t accept we turned ourselves around while most of the world continued to sink deeper into a pit filled with crap.”

Before the meeting can continue, there’s knock at the door. A secret service agent enters the room holding a sealed envelope, “Mr. President; there’s an urgent message for you.”

Opening the envelope, President Brownstone reads the message; every eye is watching him, he holds his hand up, putting down the message he explains, “There’s been an attack on the pipeline in Alaska and the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska. Both pipelines have been destroyed. There are millions of gallons of oil pouring out of the broken pipelines.”

Alvin asks, “Mr. President, may I see the message, please.”

Handing him the message slip, the President says, “First a nuke goes off, which Puten uses to demand world disarmament, and then our two major oil pipelines are attacked. I think we’ll shortly hear we’re environmentally damaging the planet with our fracking. I’d bet OPEC is behind this attack. John, I want you and Alvin to send your best teams to both sites, determine who did this and report back ASAP. John, if OPEC did this, I want you to plan an attack against them they won’t forget. This is the second round attack on us in the opening stages of World War 3.”

“Yes sir.”

“John, please remain a minute, there’s something I’d like to discuss with you.”

Everyone else leaves the Situation Room; John takes the seat across from the President,

“John, how many ASAT (Anti-Satellite) weapons do we have? Can more be quickly assembled?”

“Planning on blinding someone?”

“Yes, to work, we need to mass fire them to take out Russia’s spy and communications satellite networks. If we can get a number of them ready, we salvo them in a one massive surprise attack which will take out their eyes in the sky. We’ll also put a serious dent in their ability to communicate to their troops in the field.”

“I like it, let me see what I can make happen.”

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Steele City, Nebraska, is covered in thick oily black smoke. The pipeline was destroyed by wrapping the pipe in plastic explosives, once the 36” diameter pipe is broken allowing the oil to flow out; a secondary explosion ignites the flowing oil. The burning oil forms a river of burning oil destroying everything in its path. The fumes are, so toxic thousands of townspeople have to be quickly moved. The entire town is put on trains to move them out of the area, eight miles outside of Steele City, bombs hidden on each side of the tracks explode, the bombs send tens of thousands of steel balls into the rail cars carrying the townspeople, most of whom are the town’s women and children. A second series of bombs explode destroying the tracks and blowing the train onto its side crushing many of those on the train. Between the two series of bombs, 85% of those on the train are killed or severely injured. The destruction of the pipeline and the train shocks the remaining people into panicking. 

Upon hearing the news of the attack on the town’s people President Brownstone orders the entire length of both pipelines checked and closed. He also calls the Secretary of Defense, “John, I want to send a message to OPEC and to Reid.”

“Sir, why Reid?”

“Because I suspect he’s had a hand in everything negative that happens to us.”

“Yes sir, I’ll get the war planners on it right now.”

John picks up his yellow handset which connects him to the Joint Chiefs, “Gentlemen; the President has ordered us to plan a surgical strike against OPEC and Reid to send a strong message.”