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BUSH CALLS FOR RETURNING SOUTHWEST, CALIFORNIA, AND TEXAS TO MEXCIO Urges Mexico To Return Land To Indians Once They Get It From U.S. Crawford, TX - (GNS) - In a stunning announcement on the last day of his vacation, President Bush called for the return of land taken in war to Mexico. Critics immediately denounced the proposal as pandering to Mexican-Americans. Bush said he looked into his soul and could not justify the ownership and governance of these lands by the United States any longer. "We won this land in war, and it wasn't even a defensive war. The Mexicans were here first, and, by golly, I just think it really belongs to them," Bush said. Bush reportedly rejected advice and pleas from cabinet members, Senators, congressmen and congresswomen, and the governors of the four states he targeted. "I know this will be a hardship for some," he said, "but if we are to ask other nations to give up land just because someone else might have been on that land a hundred years earlier, then it just seems fair we should be willing to do the same." Bush acknowledged it might take Federal troops to facilitate the turnover, "but that's what they're there for," he said. Bush also called on Mexico to immediately hand over the land to the Indians, once it is returned to them. "After all, the Indians were here first," he said. Bush said people living in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas would have to make arrangements with the new government as to maintaining land ownership and business practices. "We will seek a treaty to maintain our military bases, as we have a military base in Cuba, but that will be up to Mexico," he said. Bush indicated he was willing to look at Native American claims for land throughout the United States. "The fair thing to do may be to just give back all the land," he said. Several Senators and pundits urged Vice President Cheney to take over the government officially, charging that Bush "baked his brains in the Texas sun while on vacation." Cheney said he would take the matter under advisement. |