Poemranker [Replying] Wed May 01 01:04:51 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..

ecargo

8-Mar-06/8:11 AM

Oh jeez. I know I'll regret this.

Iraq did not attack us.

As for body counts, it's almost impossible to get stats on civilian casualties, whether from "coalition" action or insurgent bombs--which says something in itself about how this war is being conducted ("truth never damages a cause that is just"). It's difficult enough to get stats on our own dead/wounded. Also, while oil was not the only factor, do you really think it was not a factor at all?

You hit almost every neocon/apologist talking point in your post (linking Iraq and 9-11; opposition to the war = shitting on the troops; we're there to "make life better for the Iraqis"; "would Iraq be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power?" (currently, for the Iraqis, the answer is probably yes by all practical measures).

I honestly don't want to reargue old circular arguments, particularly on this board, but I do find the hostility toward any poems that have to do with the war a little disconcerting. So he has an opinion. So do you. So do I.

I agree with your comments on the execution of the poem, anyway.

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