Why is Mountain Lion not compatible with my Mac Pro?

Downloading Mountain Lion to my Mac Pro (running Snow Leopard OS 10.6.8) fails with this warning" not compatible with this computer". Why is this happening? What is the solution?

Apple didn't drop graphics cards. What they did is force 64b boot mode.  What that means is any Mac that does have a EFI64, Mac Pro 2006-2007 cannot use Mountain Lion at all.  And any machine using certain video cards that don't have 64b drivers are also not able to use it.
It is a shame that they decided to do it, but that is the way of large companies no days.  There is no real reason to upgrade to ML unless you really need notifications, iCloud, and iMessage on your Mac.
What is sad is they removed the ability for people to buy Lion.  So if you didn't go to lion you have already lost some apps in the app store, cause they require Lion or Mountain Lion.

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      Model Identifier:          MacBookPro2,2
      Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
      Processor Speed:          2.16 GHz
      Number Of Processors:          1
      Total Number Of Cores:          2
      L2 Cache:          4 MB
      Memory:          2 GB
      Bus Speed:          667 MHz
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      Serial Number (system):          W8xxxxxW0K
      Hardware UUID:          00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F2D7544A
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      PCIe Lane Width:          x16
      VRAM (Total):          128 MB
      Vendor:          ATI (0x1002)
      Device ID:          0x71c5
      Revision ID:          0x0000
      ROM Revision:          113-xxxxxx-158
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      Pixel Depth:          32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
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      Mirror:          Off
      Online:          Yes
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