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THE TRIAL OF SADDAM - HOW DID WE GET FROM THERE TO HERE?
Contributed by
Steeleyes
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Thursday, 1st July 2004 @ 08:00:47 AM in AEST
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(As Saddam appears in court in Iraq here is a very long poem covering much of what is a very long and very ugly history)
Saddam insane
Caused so much pain
Control through oppression
Sprang from his brain
In a hard land
He was a hard man
Harder than anyone
Can understand
Like dictators before
The tough rose to the top
In fields of violence
They were the worst crop
In power they were
But surrounded by fear
Knowing the ambitions
Of those most near
Forming a clique
Of family and tribe
No one else
Was allowed inside
Then those others
Who’s loyalty was bought
Only available for cash
Or for privileges bought
So a pyramid of fear
is quickly built
Where suspicion pervades
and ugly guilt
Who will be next
To feel his awful wrath?
Better do as he says
Not stray from that path
And in the end
Doing such heinous things
Fearing one another
And what suspicion brings
If I don’t do it
Now in this moment to you
Someone higher will see
What it is -I- do
And then in your place
I will surely then stand
That is the nameless fear
We all can understand
And finally we reach a system
Reflecting an evil complete
Where the slightest humanity
Cannot at all compete
Where dictators rule
No matter in which lands
They control with lies and fear
Making their demands
Absolute obedience is required
To his brutal rule
And anyone against him
Is called dangerous fool
So it was with Pinochet
And others of our “friends”
Seeing their “goodness”
In terms of what we defend
So once was Saddam too
As you will know
A friend against Iran
Our implacable foe
All the million dead
We talk about right now
We helped to kill them
And lay them all so low
We gave Saddam
Satellite images so clear
Of where Iranians stood
So he could then draw near
His weapons to destroy
The Iranian lines
Often mere kids
In those awful times
Through the CIA
Saddam had his day
Giving lists for execution
Politicians for elimination
He was aided to power
by American hands
Provided with weapons
Fulfilling his demands
What Saddam did
Was unforgiveable it’s true
The savage terror he unleashed
Such a horror to live through
But there is one horror
Of that time said bold
That he didn’t do
But we are often told
He killed 5,000 Kurds
At Halabja they say
Said without doubt
“It happened that way”
Now Saddam IS a monster
And guilty of SO much
But this seems to be
Not guilty of his touch
If you read the CIA
The Iraq expert of the time
You will see it looks more
Like a propaganda find
The type of chemical weapons
IRAN used killed them all
In the battle for Halabja
That came after its fall
The Iranians had taken
this Iraqi town
While fighting raged
around
But the CIA chief says
He saw the dead
And all his conclusions
Inescapably led
To him saying quite sure
The weapons used there
Were IRANIAN WMD
He saw them everywhere
The symptoms and signs
Point to this and NOT Iraq
IRAN was to blame
For the Halabja attack
But of course Saddam
Is STILL insane
Such ugly suppression
Just poured from his brain
Saddam and Kuwait
Had a long and bitter fight
About oil and land
And exactly what was right
A fascist leader Saddam
Sought conquest
Like fascists in the past
Just like all the rest
Removed from Kuwait
As he should
The world wondered
If then he would
Have caused all this
expensive action from the West
If it had been only sand, not oil
Would THAT have passed the test?
After GW1 the Shia were urged
Rise up now and fight
Knowing Saddam would use
Every little bit of his might
To crush a rebellion
That threatened all his power
Using everything that he had
To win that ugly hour
America knows just how many dead
Fall in a civil war
Where no quarter is given
In a killing fest of gore
The U.S. let Saddam
Use ‘copters to simply crush
The Shia as they made
Their useless tragic push
The Shia were not merely walking
Toward Saddam’s lines
They were killing too
Not only GUILTY Sunni whines
Is it surprising
That so many then were killed?
Or that so many
Mass graves were callously filled?
When a brother fights brother
Or in some Rwandan tribal fight
Who really counts the cost?
And who holds to what is right?
The Shia’s puny force
America made to feel
Would get hard backing
From strong U.S. steel
But in the end they were left
Just to suffer and to die
And all that was left in the end
Was a lonely Shia cry
But kicked out Saddam had been
And quite rightly too
He was forced back to Iraq
Bent and bloodied too
Soon followed demands
That he start to disarm
To lay down his weapons
And do no further harm
Unknown to the uninformed
He did in fact comply
But Washington and London
Then began to lie
Sanctions came soon
With quite another aim
Regime change was now
The REAL goal of the game
Over 12 years in Iraq
With no WMD there
Sanctions were ever tightened
To an endless despair
500,000 Iraqi kids
Lost every innocent life
As the U.S. and U.K sought
Ever to contrive
To ban almost everything
To make life a living hell
And these poor Iraqi kids
Lost their lives as well
And just as that country
Was starting to climb back
To a life more normal
They came under our attack
9/11
Hit the U.S. hard
All options were now open
To the pre-emptive card
Al Qaeda was now
Our Enemy Number One
And Afghanistan was first to fall
Under the U.S. gun
That left one other
Clear villain in their sight
Saddam Hussein they saw
Could now be crushed by their might
A target of convenience
Virtually defenceless he stood
Who cared if it was RIGHT to do this?
Who cared if we SHOULD?
The opportunity was there
To do that awful thing
Just that one small window
To invade and then to bring
Saddam falling down
In one total shock attack
To cook up “legal” reasons
To smash a weak Iraq
Blair convinced Bush
To ask the U.N.
Needing a moral fig-leaf
Two determined men
Also needing sanction
To simply go ahead
A war that would leave so many
So disfigured and so dead
You can say it was right
A humanitarian war
But for what are these
Our precious laws then for?
To protect the right
Of a sovereign state
Against those who see them
With only a pure hate
And then there’s the question
If it was NOT for the oil…?
All those kid’s lives were lost
It makes our blood to boil
No WMD
No al Qaeda link
No terrorist plot
It all beigins to stink
But the goal was decided
On September 12th
Containment plans
Left up on the shelf
Through their pretence and lies
They thought they could easily weave
A chance for them to destroy
In a way we wouldn’t grieve
For a system of law
They cast aside
Making it possible every day
For so many to have died
They said it was a new front
On the “War on Terror”
But it really wasn’t true
It was a monumental error
Now al Qaeda is stronger
With a fierce cause in Iraq
And does ANYONE really know
Who’ll mount the LAST attack?
So, Saddam faces trial
This is so VERY good
All ugly dictators
Deserve this and truly SHOULD
But as in a trial
We must see the truth as a WHOLE
Not only partial
And then off to the gaol
Many things will come out
We must be ready to face
Saddam’s ugly crimes it’s true
But also homespun disgrace.
Our help to him
When we were friends
Rumsfeld and his grins
Achieving all HIS ends
The CIA and its assistance
On the killing fields
Bringing Saddam to power
To make Iranians yield
Saddam is guilty
Of much that is clear
But an unfair trial
We must surely fear
That would only be
More recruitment signs
For the violent men and
All their hellish designs
Now we will all
I hope get to see
The true cost
Of lies, death and misery
From ALL sides
These questions shout in fear
How did we REALLY
Get from THERE to HERE?
Copyright ©
Steeleyes
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2004-07-01 08:00:47]
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Re: THE TRIAL OF SADDAM - HOW DID WE GET FROM THERE TO HERE?
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by Colleen on
Thursday, 1st July 2004 @ 08:58:52 AM AEST
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| Wow, this was such an amazing eye opener for me. It was very truthful too, as much as that hurts for me to admitt. Good writing. I couldn't agree with you more! |
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Re: THE TRIAL OF SADDAM - HOW DID WE GET FROM THERE TO HERE?
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by Former_Member on
Thursday, 1st July 2004 @ 09:23:14 AM AEST
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Just think - you could have saved yourself a couple hundred poems worth of effort if you had penned this a year ago . . . lol.
"But for what are these
Our precious laws then for?"
Wonderful effort, Steel. These are indeed, Interesting days. Will Saddam talk? Will the truth out? Will he simply be accused of lying about everything and everyone and simply shot on the spot?
Saddam Deserves Justice - the death penalty is too easy for him. I think prolonged community service, excavating all the mass graves he's ordered filling would be a fitting penitence for a start. Then, he can go on tv and explain to the Iraqi people why he did it (although you explain why pretty well here). I guess the answer would be - 'because I can'.
Exactly the same answer Bush would give, I expect, if asked why he ordained those pre-emptive strikes.
Great write again, Steel. Let's hope Saddam's chapter is nearing its conclusion, and that Iraq does not sleep in democracy, like every other indoctrinated western country, when she finally achieves her own solidarity.
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