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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)

nypoet22 8-Oct-06/9:49 AM
in truth i don't think this is a particularly good poem, but i do love the way you managed to raise the ire of everyone in shouting distance and expose hypocrisy wherever it might lie. that's an enviable talent, and it's on that accomplishment i'm grading you. i'm really not against war, perhaps not even against pre-emptive war under certain circumstances, but anyone with even a nursery school education should have been able to see the probable outcome of a hastily planned, domestically motivated, essentially unilateral iraq conflict.




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