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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBush still working on Mars mission quietly in his spare time
http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-still-working-on-manned-mission-to-mars-quiet,18154/DALLASSpeaking from his home in Dallas, former president George W. Bush told reporters Tuesday that when he's not busy giving lectures or writing his memoirs, he spends most of his spare time working on the manned mission to Mars he proposed in January 2004.
"This is genuinely important to me," said Bush, looking over sketches of potential rocket systems he had drawn up while waiting for his oil to be changed at a service station earlier this week. "I wasn't kidding when I announced a plan to get us to Mars, by God, and I intend to finish what I started. That's why I try to carve out a little time before lunch and after dinner to work on this important interplanetary initiative."
"It's a big project," Bush added. "Lots of little details to work out."
While in 2004 many critics suggested Bush's call for a mission to Mars was little more than political theater, the 43rd president has called those claims "ridiculous." Bush said he has spent many hours scouring the web for information about space travel and Mars, in addition to checking out "a bunch" of books on the subject from the local library and regularly e-mailing contacts he still has at NASA to ask their advice on his plan.
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Bush still working on Mars mission quietly in his spare time (Original Post)
Enrique
Jan 2012
OP
Shhh! The Martians aren't too keen on that idea, according to their ambassador...
pinboy3niner
Jan 2012
#12
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)1. I'm sure everyone at DU wants to help him.
And if we can't get him to Mars, at least we can kick him into a low-Earth orbit.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)2. Maybe he thinks that...
...he'll find an unlimited supply of his favorite candy bars!
PEACE!
baldguy
(36,649 posts)3. Just what we need: Bush fucking up another planet.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)4. mental image:
MineralMan
(146,189 posts)5. Let's all get together and help send Bush to Mars!
What an idea!
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)9. +1000
Make him ambassador to Mars
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)12. Shhh! The Martians aren't too keen on that idea, according to their ambassador...
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)6. Gotta love the Onion
Great source
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)7. George W. Bush, rocket scientist.
CanonRay
(14,036 posts)8. He should go out into the backyard
get some C-4, jam it up his ass and blast himself up there.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)11. If it was good enough for frogs...n/t
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)10. I didn't know you COULD get that drunk!!!
I'm sure NASA has a special round chrome file box they put all of his ideas into.