President Robert L. Booth
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President Robert L. Booth is a fictional character from the British comic 2000 AD. He was the last President of the United States (2069-2070) and the man who initiated the Atomic Wars.
In 2060 he was elected vice president, and was elected president in 2068. Belligerent and wanting further power, he whipped up public sentiment with the idea that the rest of the world was living off America, sent the army in to seize foreign oil reserves, assassinated a dissenting advisor, and threatened to disband the Judges and return to trial by jury. He finally started the Atomic Wars in 2070 in response to international opposition, having convinced the population (and himself) that America's nuclear screens could keep out retaliatory strikes. The resulting devastation of America and the world led him being deposed and tried for war crimes. He was sentenced by Judge Solomon, who decreed that he should serve a 100 year term in suspended animation, locked up in the deepest vault in Fort Knox. When a bomb hit Fort Knox thirty years later, Booth was inadvertently revived. Eventually he met Judge Dredd, who sentenced him to life working on a Kentucky farm in the Cursed Earth.
In recent years, 2000AD editorials have explicitly compared the policies of Booth to those of George W. Bush.
[edit] Appearances
Booth first appeared 2000 AD #67 and 68, in "The Cursed Earth". He later appeared in #1038-1040 and in the story "Origins" (beginning in prog 1505).
