Politicians tiptoe around Iraq

 

from this week in January, 2007  (I was 62)

 

Politicians tiptoe around Iraq

say they were fooled by intelligence talk

The agents of businessmen told them what to do

Ignore UN investigators and what they knew

Any Middle East Muslim is a believable suspect

We can control the valves on the pipeline

Aggressive capitalism we tell the Iraqi

is what we call democracy

Any Hussein we kill will be revenge upon a villain

and Muslims are looking to love us

for ridding them of their oppressor

And our military said it was time

for a national fireworks show

Less than a few urged any they know

to volunteer for active duty

Those sub-listed in the Guard to protect native soil

for a monthly stipend and minimal intrusion

now walk a foreign pipeline pumping oil

and walk the bottom line of national confusion

Anyone who saw the international press

didn’t have to guess that Bechtel and Halliburton

will profiteer from catastrophic destruction

they can build upon