I take it you're not aware of the many military officers who risked their careers, possibly their lives, by stating that if Gore had usurped the presidency, they would have reacted by considering him as one of the *enemies, foreign and domestic* that they have sworn to protect this country's constitution against.
The interesting question is, how many. I am personally aware of more than I have fingers and toes, so it was almost certainly more than a hundred, at least several hundred, and possibly a thousand or more, some in some particularly interesting duty assignments.
I suspect the dispute would have become violent and bloody very quickly. That is, after all, their job, and the duty required by the promise of those oaths they intended to keep.
I don't think Bush would have idly sat by with such things going on, and growing in intensity. I hope not, at least, and still give prayers of thanks it did not.
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Although I myself was prepared to take to the streets if it came to that, or at least move to Texas and work for secession, I didn't know how angry some in the military were (and rightfully so).
At any rate, I am thankful that we have President Bush, and I will work hard for his reelection. The nation has been given a second chance, and that is more than we deserved.