Poemranker [Replying] Tue Apr 30 19:33:51 PDT 2024

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Breakfast (Free verse) by Dhanesh M Kumar

Hip hip â¦ hipâ¦.hurai, Hip hip â¦ hipâ¦.hurai Powell, Rice and their company sings the song with seamless joy; Throwing apart the countless skulls of 2 years to 80 years , They are rejoiced by the smell of oil. Miles afar their boss is busy , Eating the breakfast of many Otherâs bone..

Ranger

8-Mar-06/3:40 AM

Last two lines don't make grammatical sense; the number doesn't agree. Either you mean 'Many others' bones', or you mean 'An other's bone'.
'Seamless joy?'
I don't know the statistics, but I'm prepared to bet that the number of people killed in conflict with the troops is fewer (or will very soon be fewer) than the number of people killed by the militants' bombs, which, I should add, are generally planted to cause maximum carnage whereas the intentions of the troops, especially the British troops, is to cause as little damage as possible and actually save lives. Yes! I know it's an astonishing concept to grasp, but our boys actually travelled thousands of miles from home, subjected themselves to all kinds of abuse from the people they were trying to protect, and selflessly risk their own lives on a daily basis because they genuinely want to make life better for the Iraqis.
As for the oil - well of course it's a priority. It's the main source of income for the country. Iraq needs those oilfields to be protected more than the Americans do. But oil being the reason for war? Rubbish. I used to think that it was, then I realised how stupid a concept it was. What would be easier - ignoring the UN, amassing troops and sending them to probable death while capturing a dangerous war criminal, then spending huge amounts of time and effort trying to rebuild the country that the oil is in, all the while risking a second Vietnam...or would it be easier to ignore the UN and just go and drill the Arctic Circle, thus avoiding all that 'unjust war' bullshit?
None of us like war, none of us want to see our own people get killed, and most of us despise the way our troops are treated. You take a very simplistic view of us, of the Americans in particular, and I'm afraid it's wrong. Most of the people on this site are testament to that.
And so I ask you; would you rather Saddam Hussein and the Taliban been left controlling their respective countries?

(PS as I remember, the Americans were attacked first, correct me if I'm wildly wrong)

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