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[aid] => mick
[title] => Disguised in Stars and Stripes
[time] => 2004-05-30 10:47:58
[hometext] => This is just what I'm made to see. I don't know whether it's true or not, but it sure dominates the media.
[bodytext] => ‘A nation punished for what one guy did,’ A would-be newspaper caption if the press was set free, But, what they’re ‘pressed’ to make do with, Is, ‘They wiped the smudges and opened-up our eyes to see,’ ‘The Iraqis are covered with blood [Says the autocrat], I don’t care if it’s their own, Saddam killed for riches, That’s exactly why the Iraqis are known They’re a threat to my home country, They’re a liability to my land, They’re hiding weapons of mass destruction! Don’t you understand?’ Then, the brave adversary rises up to ask, ‘Do its oil reserves have no influence on you?’ Once again the tyrant hogs the media and replies, ‘I have no further comments. This meeting is through,’ So, that leaves a looming question, To spectators like you and me, ‘Is justice being done?’ Well, we’ll just have to wait and see [comments] => 1 [counter] => 158 [topic] => 41 [informant] => Mihiri [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 7 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )
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