How would you have prepared and led our people?
I would have asked Congress for a declaration of war on September 16, 2001. Subsequent to that, I would have imposed full press censorship, started a Federal propaganda agency, detained all nationals of the Islamic nations and screened them for deportation.
I would have issued a call for volunteers for the purpose of expanding the army to 50-60 divisions, and asked Congress for a draft if there were not enough volunteers by December 1, 2001.
I would have expanded the USMC to ten divisions.
I would have told the people from the beginning that our goal was the conquest, occupation, and reconstruction of the Arabian peninsula and Pakistan, that it would take five years of military expansion and heavy combat but that when it was over, we would be much safer.
I would have prosecuted sedition to the full extent of the law.
I would have nationalized GM and Ford for the duration, to assure adequate supplies of military vehicles.
I would have rationed gasoline, since supplies would become very constrained.
I would have used the War Power of the People of the United States to drill for oil in Alaska, and off the California and Florida coasts.
When the 2002 elections gave me a majority of over 300 House seats and 60 Senators, I would have repealed laws blocking the construction of nuclear power stations, and I wuld have built 300-400 of them by now.
By 2006, my only problem would have been how to fund the new GI Bill for my demobilizing army, and where to find enough Arabic and Pushto speakers to run the occupation governments.
For starters.