{"id":864,"date":"2004-01-09T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=864"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:55:36","slug":"preemptive-strike-mars-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Preemptive Strike [Mars Edition]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--107367218504459409-->Dear Dr. Anton Phibes,<br \/>\nIn response to your recent comment re: The Bush White House and the space program, I suspect that the reason for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/space\/01\/09\/bush.space\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>sudden need to go to Mars<\/strong><\/a> is that there must be some need for a Martian regime change. We can&#8217;t have those pesky Martians suddenly coming to attack Earth. I am sure that &#8220;Warrior&#8221; Bush has seen &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116996\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mars Attacks<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; and is worried about that possibility. A preemptive strike will show those aliens that the unilateral stance of the United States can even be felt in the deep reaches of space. I feel confident that our fearless &#8220;commander-in-chief&#8221; will lead us to victory on Mars just like he has in Iraq and Afghanistan.<br \/>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nChas. of CGM13 World News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Anton Phibes, In response to your recent comment re: The Bush White House and the space program, I suspect that the reason for the sudden need to go to Mars is that there must be some need for a Martian regime change. We can&#8217;t have those pesky Martians suddenly coming to attack Earth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-dW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12055,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/12055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}