HEART-WRENCHING

 

Struggling every day are our soldiers

Dedicated they are following orders,

The people that sent them into this hell

For they and their families all is well

 

Baghdad is now slum and slaughter

Just killings, maiming and disorder,

Our troops are caught up in this debauchery

Because of lies by our oligarchy

 

Bush and his cronies are at a loss

With no resolve for this discourse,

We are dammed if we walk away

And dammed if we stay

 

This fiasco was pre-planned and not a mistake

Bush and Rumsfeld’s optimism is nothing but fake,

Even when it is raining they’ll claim the Sun is out

Impeachment is a must, without a doubt!

© Sheriff Ali 2006

Author’s Comments

During the Vietnam War, in 1971 the question was asked; “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” For me it is incomprehensible to hear people say that we cannot withdraw our troops from Iraq. History is not on our side and the longer we keep the troops there the death toll will continue to mount on both sides. Denying that Iraq is not in a Civil War is pure Political hypocrisy or stupidity or both! If we can but for a moment stop thinking like Republicans and Democrats and think as a true patriotic American, then in good conscience, you cannot allow your caring American heart – “watch America’s sons and daughters continue to be maimed and killed” because of President Bush’s pride, stubbornness, arrogance and myopia! Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice, are “political criminals.”