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THE CAKEWALK KINGS ARE DEAD
Contributed by
steeleyes
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Wednesday, 22nd December 2004 @ 05:33:20 AM in AEST
Topic:
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From: CAKEWALK
by Hendrik Hertzberg
New Yorker
Issue of 2003-04-14
More than a year ago, Kenneth Adelman, a prominent national-security official in the Reagan Administration who now serves part time, with Richard Perle, on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, wrote a piece for the Washington Post. Its title was “Cakewalk in Iraq,” and its payoff went like this: “I believe demolishing Hussein’s military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk. Let me give simple, responsible reasons: (1) It was a cakewalk last time; (2) they’ve become much weaker; (3) we’ve become much stronger; and (4) now we’re playing for keeps.” It’s worth remembering that “last time”—that is, in 1991, when a genuine coalition of American, European, and Arab armies expelled Saddam Hussein from Kuwait—the ground war was over in a hundred hours. Next time, the reader was left to conclude, the job would be wrapped up even faster.
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/..._talk_hertzberg
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The Cakewalk Kings
are dead
Now gone is the time
To be so easily led
To an endless war
Based on lies
Based on fantasy
And baseless cries
These Cakewalk Kings
Are seen as a fraud
With their puppet prince
Who degraded God
The bastard Bush
Who pushed the deception
Of the Cakewalk Kings
A Neo Con collection
We heard so very often
their arrogant voice
And now look at the mess
And lack of choice
Doomed to stay
In Iraq now for good
With more dead each day
A policy so crude
It was to be a cakewalk
Remember that?
How does it seem now?
Do you smell a rat?
Do you see it now?
Their little plan?
Push you into war
Anyway that they can?
But plan for reality?
No, that was no fun
All they saw was their chance
What they grabbed was a gun
Sorry, let me correct the above
It was not THEY who reached for a gun
They sent others
Perhaps your son...
The Cakewalk Kings
Do we hear from them now?
In their comfortable chairs
Like some prize sow
Fat and rich
They pontificate
Sending others to die
As they write their hate
So easy to do
But so hard to survive
They have their careers
They are still alive
Not so lucky the troops
With each nightmare day
As the Neo Cons dream on
What would THEY say?
“We were deceived!”
“We were put in harm’s way!”
“Get rid of this Bush
and his men of clay!”
Well there WAS a chance
and many said yes
But the bigots came through
So on goes the mess
The chaos of Iraq
Is not going away
The troops are now stranded
To the last bloody day
It was to be so easy
A 'cakewalk' in fact
But this was fantasy
A PC-game Iraq
Finally we now can see
That fantasists held sway
And all the Cakewalk Kings
Have now HAD their day
The Cakewalk Kings
are now dead
Gone is the time
We will be so led
To an endless war
Based on pure lies
Fed by fantasy
And fear-based cries
These Cakewalk Kings
Are seen as a fraud
With their puppet prince
Who degraded God
They are now shown
As callous fools
Who bent the law
and all our rules
NEVER has America
been SO deceived or badly led
But there's one consolation:
The Cakewalk Kings... are dead
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steeleyes
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2004-12-22 05:33:20]
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Re: THE CAKEWALK KINGS ARE DEAD
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by Luka on
Wednesday, 22nd December 2004 @ 03:36:46 PM AEST
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| Speachless..........wonderful just wonderful, i usually only read dark poetry but the title cought my eye, though this was political, it was very drak......and very good......like i said before i am speachless |
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