what kind of decade wasn’t the United
States of America started out the
millennium posting a budget surplus and
enjoying world peace it ended with a
deficit in the trillions a shattered
economy fighting not one but two wars
and afraid not only of terrorism but of
epidemics and a global meltdown yep
that’s the kind of decade it was with
the y2k bug quarantine President Bill
Clinton assured in the first decade of
the new millennium and the final year of
his presidency sitting on a surplus of
559 billion dollars
throughout the year Clinton’s Vice
President Al Gore and Texas Governor
George W Bush when their respective
party’s nominations and ultimately
results of the presidential election had
Bush winning the electoral votes despite
gore earning more popular roles fool me
once
shame on
the biggest foreign policy disaster of
that year consisted of federal agents
shipping young Elian Gonzalez back to
Cuba India’s population continued to
soar as its billionth citizen was born
on may 11th joining China as the only
countries with over a billion people
2001 started off on the wrong foot with
an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in
the United Kingdom but that was nothing
compared to 9/11 on September 11th 2001
for jumbo jets were hijacked the world
as we knew it would never be the same
inaugurated in January of 2001 and
baptized by fire
President Bush invaded Afghanistan on
October 7th to hunt down Osama bin Laden
and crush al-qaeda this was despite the
fact that none of the alleged hijackers
were from Afghanistan and in fact hailed
from Saudi Arabia the u.s. managed to
drive the Taliban from power and the
Afghan people voted for Hamid Karzai a
man who was allegedly a consultant for
unocal the company has since been
acquired by Chevron in 2005 as George
Bush signs the Patriot Act into effect
terrorists kill innocent partygoers in
Bali on February 1st 2002 kidnapped Wall
Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is
murdered in Karachi Pakistan between
November 2002 and July 2003 SARS or
severe acute respiratory syndrome
infected over 8,000 people and killed
almost 800 but that was nothing compared
to the killing that lurked around the
corner the next year : Powell makes the
case for war against Iraq at the united
nation undeterred by the evildoers w
expands the war on terror by attacking
Iraq in March 2003 by December 13 former
president of Iraq Saddam Hussein is
captured in Tikrit by the u.s. 4th
Infantry Division on March 11th 2004 a
series of coordinated bombings targeted
the commuter
drit in Iraq US soldiers were accused of
using prisoners at the infamous Abu
Ghraib prison while back on US soil John
Kerry won the Democratic nomination and
set off to defeat an unpopular George
Bush meanwhile Massachusetts
incidentally carries home state became
the first state to legalize gay marriage
former President Ronald Reagan died in
June of 2004 at the age of 93 in the
November elections Kerry shocked the
world by losing to Bush who now would
serve as a lame-duck president with a
green light to continue his global
crusade 2004 ended with a bang a tsunami
struck in the Indian Ocean and killed
230,000 people and with over 100,000
soldiers on Iraqi soil the u.s. admits
there was never any threat from WMDs the
main reason we went into Iraq at the
time was we thought he had weapons of
mass destruction it turns out he did in
2005 saw more terrorist attacks this
time in London nominated by President
Bush after the death of William
Rehnquist John Roberts is named the 17th
Chief Justice of the United States also
dead the Polk he’s replaced by Joseph
Ratzinger
also known as pope benedict xvi on
august 23rd 2005 Hurricane Katrina
formed over the Bahamas and crossed
southern Florida as a moderate category
one hurricane at least 1836 people lost
their lives in the actual hurricane and
subsequent floods making it the
deadliest u.s. hurricane since the 1928
Okeechobee hurricane thousands died
George Bush doesn’t like black people
George Bush doesn’t care about black
people five years after being dubbed a
member of the axis of evil North Korea
earns the moniker by conducting its
first nuclear test the other member of
the elite Club Iran enriches uranium
meanwhile George Bush continues to
reject funds for stem-cell research at
President Gerald Ford dies and Saddam is
executed tough year for former heads of
state in 2007 the first madam Speaker of
the House and
Pelosi is sworn in the u.s. implements
the surge by adding more troops to Iraq
while a Virginia Tech student goes on a
rampage killing 32 people by 2008 the
bubble in the housing market bursts
hedge fund losses add up banks shut down
bear stearns goes bankrupt while layman
is acquired for pennies on the dollar by
JPMorgan Wall Street panics lays off
thousands Bush signs bail out in
November Obama is elected the first
black president Chicago New York the US
and the entire world celebrate his
victory the next year he wins the Nobel
Prize the economy continues to shrink
and job losses pile up Ted Kennedy dies
as the year in decade close out the
swine flu also known as h1n1 scares half
the population to death
States of America started out the
millennium posting a budget surplus and
enjoying world peace it ended with a
deficit in the trillions a shattered
economy fighting not one but two wars
and afraid not only of terrorism but of
epidemics and a global meltdown yep
that’s the kind of decade it was with
the y2k bug quarantine President Bill
Clinton assured in the first decade of
the new millennium and the final year of
his presidency sitting on a surplus of
559 billion dollars
throughout the year Clinton’s Vice
President Al Gore and Texas Governor
George W Bush when their respective
party’s nominations and ultimately
results of the presidential election had
Bush winning the electoral votes despite
gore earning more popular roles fool me
once
shame on
the biggest foreign policy disaster of
that year consisted of federal agents
shipping young Elian Gonzalez back to
Cuba India’s population continued to
soar as its billionth citizen was born
on may 11th joining China as the only
countries with over a billion people
2001 started off on the wrong foot with
an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in
the United Kingdom but that was nothing
compared to 9/11 on September 11th 2001
for jumbo jets were hijacked the world
as we knew it would never be the same
inaugurated in January of 2001 and
baptized by fire
President Bush invaded Afghanistan on
October 7th to hunt down Osama bin Laden
and crush al-qaeda this was despite the
fact that none of the alleged hijackers
were from Afghanistan and in fact hailed
from Saudi Arabia the u.s. managed to
drive the Taliban from power and the
Afghan people voted for Hamid Karzai a
man who was allegedly a consultant for
unocal the company has since been
acquired by Chevron in 2005 as George
Bush signs the Patriot Act into effect
terrorists kill innocent partygoers in
Bali on February 1st 2002 kidnapped Wall
Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is
murdered in Karachi Pakistan between
November 2002 and July 2003 SARS or
severe acute respiratory syndrome
infected over 8,000 people and killed
almost 800 but that was nothing compared
to the killing that lurked around the
corner the next year : Powell makes the
case for war against Iraq at the united
nation undeterred by the evildoers w
expands the war on terror by attacking
Iraq in March 2003 by December 13 former
president of Iraq Saddam Hussein is
captured in Tikrit by the u.s. 4th
Infantry Division on March 11th 2004 a
series of coordinated bombings targeted
the commuter
drit in Iraq US soldiers were accused of
using prisoners at the infamous Abu
Ghraib prison while back on US soil John
Kerry won the Democratic nomination and
set off to defeat an unpopular George
Bush meanwhile Massachusetts
incidentally carries home state became
the first state to legalize gay marriage
former President Ronald Reagan died in
June of 2004 at the age of 93 in the
November elections Kerry shocked the
world by losing to Bush who now would
serve as a lame-duck president with a
green light to continue his global
crusade 2004 ended with a bang a tsunami
struck in the Indian Ocean and killed
230,000 people and with over 100,000
soldiers on Iraqi soil the u.s. admits
there was never any threat from WMDs the
main reason we went into Iraq at the
time was we thought he had weapons of
mass destruction it turns out he did in
2005 saw more terrorist attacks this
time in London nominated by President
Bush after the death of William
Rehnquist John Roberts is named the 17th
Chief Justice of the United States also
dead the Polk he’s replaced by Joseph
Ratzinger
also known as pope benedict xvi on
august 23rd 2005 Hurricane Katrina
formed over the Bahamas and crossed
southern Florida as a moderate category
one hurricane at least 1836 people lost
their lives in the actual hurricane and
subsequent floods making it the
deadliest u.s. hurricane since the 1928
Okeechobee hurricane thousands died
George Bush doesn’t like black people
George Bush doesn’t care about black
people five years after being dubbed a
member of the axis of evil North Korea
earns the moniker by conducting its
first nuclear test the other member of
the elite Club Iran enriches uranium
meanwhile George Bush continues to
reject funds for stem-cell research at
President Gerald Ford dies and Saddam is
executed tough year for former heads of
state in 2007 the first madam Speaker of
the House and
Pelosi is sworn in the u.s. implements
the surge by adding more troops to Iraq
while a Virginia Tech student goes on a
rampage killing 32 people by 2008 the
bubble in the housing market bursts
hedge fund losses add up banks shut down
bear stearns goes bankrupt while layman
is acquired for pennies on the dollar by
JPMorgan Wall Street panics lays off
thousands Bush signs bail out in
November Obama is elected the first
black president Chicago New York the US
and the entire world celebrate his
victory the next year he wins the Nobel
Prize the economy continues to shrink
and job losses pile up Ted Kennedy dies
as the year in decade close out the
swine flu also known as h1n1 scares half
the population to death
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