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[title] => THE CAKEWALK KINGS ARE DEAD
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[bodytext] => Please view image before reading verses: http://www.geocities.com/kaneix/mayhem.jpg -o- 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 --O//-- 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 [comments] => 1 [counter] => 174 [topic] => 57 [informant] => steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => war )
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