{war} Poetry

From: nanowave (nanowave@shaw.ca)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 13:06:32 MST

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    Rhetoric, Rhetoric
    Bla Bla Bla

    Twentieth of March, 2003
    corresponding to Seventeenth
    of the Muharram
    of 1422 Hejira

    Rhetoric, Rhetoric
    Bla Bla Bla

    Oh, the shame of it!
    This high-tech foe
    Who strikes a private residence!

    Rhetoric, Rhetoric
    Bla Bla Bla

    Yet where is your outrage, Saddam?
    Not a hint of your surprise
    Or unease,
    At the closeness of it

    Rhetoric, Rhetoric
    Bla Bla Bla

    Instead, this bland soliloquy
    These mutterings from an era past

    Not even a diatribe
    Though, surely, you've lost someone close now.
    Did anyone ever really get close?

    And what of your growing suspicions?
    That it had to be
    As ever,
    Betrayal!

    Rhetoric, Rhetoric
    Bla Bla Bla

    Tell us one more time, Commander
    Then be still for all time

    Why your war machine should still fight on
    With its head lopped off
    And its generals gone

    http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/20/irq.war.saddam.transcript/index.ht
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