FACELESS ENEMY – SECOND TIME 

Invading Mesopotamia to fight a faceless enemy

Is not the purpose of our dedicated Army,

An invasion of just because

Have painful effects, symptoms and cause

 

Haditha alleged atrocities causes us to remember

The deadly mission of the Mylai massacre,

How can we make the same error twice?

I wonder who was giving the advice

 In Vietnam with all the explosions man has known

The truth makes you want to moan and groan,

Going through the hutches we maimed and killed

The thought of remembering, makes you chilled

 This present situation we certainly didn’t need

So many dead as others continue to bleed,

Pride, Bush should swallow and bring the troops home

Perhaps the Iraqis would survive, if we leave them alone

 Author’s Comments

 “THE MEMORIAL” – An artistic abstraction, an angle of polished black stone subtly submerged in a gentle slope that dramatizes a grim reality in its simplicity. The names of the 58,000 dead engraved on the granite record more than lives lost in battle: however noble or illusory its motives, it represents a failed crusade. These names bear witness to the end of America’s moral exclusivity, its military invisibility, its manifest destiny. A price paid in blood and sorrow, for America’s awakening to maturity, to the recognition of its limitations. Well, at least that was my thought until President George W. Bush shattered it when he invaded Iraq in 2003, spilling the blood of our Nation’s greatest treasure, once again!

 “You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will loose and I will win.” Ho Chi Minh

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