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A Poem For George Bush (Free verse) by Edna Sweetlove

Dedicated to Mr G.W.Bush c/o The White House Washington DC USA A few words to thank you for invading our land: Thank you for getting rid of that Saddam Hussein (So sad you found none of the weapons you sold him) Thank you for killing off thousands of our women And maiming thousand upon countless thousand more With your illegal chemical weapons and bombs. We loved our recent democratic elections Even more than the corrupt interim regime Set up to supervise all the devastation Caused by your nice marauding psychopathic troops. And we know it's nothing at all to do with oil Or diverting attention from domestic problems. Now that summer is a coming in we're so pleased That the electric supplies are working so well So we can enjoy nice luke-warm coca cola As we swelter underneath the warm desert sun. But we are so pleased the US army bases Have their air conditioning in tip-top order. So eagerly are we all now looking forward To the thrilling civil war due to start quite soon; You see, it will be an exciting four-way fight: Sunnis vs. Shias vs. Kurds vs. the invaders. Except you'll find some excuse to pull out Just in time before the body count gets too high. We also want to thank your British lapdog, Blair, And do console him that he will be out on his neck, Reputation ruined, thanks to his warlike stance. But every cloud has its silver lining, so reflect: America stands loathed worldwide, even by its friends, As your hegemony draws to its inevitable end. From Al-i-Baba (On behalf of the bloodstained Iraqi people)

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 8-Aug-06/4:49 PM
Hmm, so Uncle Sam sold weapons to Saddam. It always surprises me when people use this (usually in combination with the photograph of Rumsfeld shaking hands with the Moustache itself) as an argument against regime change in Iraq. It seems to me that one of the most radical aspects of recent American foreign policy is how it is beginning to spell a break from the old model of propping up dictatorships whenever it seems convenient. It was that kind of short-termist realpolitik which led to the infamous Rumsfeld-Hussein Kodak Moment. If the idea of America selling weapons to Saddam is undesirable (and it is), then I'd have thought it at least slightly pleasing that we've now tossed the scoundrel in jail, and are at least trying to pursue a long term political solution to the Iraqi problem.

Your gloating over the prospect of civil war is equally surprising, particularly when the coalition's enemy in Iraq - the insurgency - has openly declared that they want to foment a civil war between Sunnis and Shia. That's why they blow up mosques and fire rockets into crowds of pilgrims. I'll grant there's an argument to be made about whether or not the presence of foreign troops in Iraq makes the situation worse for ordinary Iraqis. It's not a strong enough argument to dissuade me from supporting regime change, but it is at least an argument I can respect. But when you post five verses about the plight of the Iraqi people, spend the entire time spouting Michael Moorisms, AND DON'T DIRECT A SINGLE WORD OF CRITICSM TOWARDS THE INSURGENCY, it makes me think that you're not so much anti-war, as pathologically anti-American. In future, if you want something to blame for the sectarian strife in Iraq, blame more than 20 years under brutal dictatorship, rather than our overdue attempts, against considerable odds, to rectify the situation.




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