The president at his computer in his
poorly-lit secret bunker.
 The President will start his day bright and early with another of his trademark speeches. This time, however, he will be announcing the end of the new war in Iraq which began last night. He decided to call off the military actions after reading “tons” of away messages opposed to the war. The president signed onto AIM, the popular instant messaging service, at about 1AM; a time when most people have signed off for the night and left an automatic response mechanism in their wake.“I like to read all of the away messages when I first sign onto AIM. Some are funny, some are though provoking; but I just couldn’t believe some of the things people had written as their autoresponse,” the president told several reporters in a private chat room. When prompted to show the away messages, the president cut and pasted several of them for everyone to see.Many of the messages contained curse words and other vulgarities aimed at the war itself, while about seventy-nine percent of the messages contained personal attacks on the president. Phrases such as, ‘The Real Axis of Evil: Bush, Cheney and (insert member of Bush’s circle)’ and ‘No Blood for Oil’ were also seen in many of the messages.President Bush went on to say that he was unaware of the great number of people who were so opposed to the war. “When I saw all those people in the streets with signs and placards, chanting and such, I figured that they didn’t really mean it. I expected them to say, ‘We got ya! We do support this!’ once the fighting actually started. But when I saw all of those away messages opposed to the war, I knew that they were serious.” A new power player has emerged in the field of international geo-politics, and its name is "Away Message".
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