18 November 2006

War without a name

We're all agreed that it's a bloody shame
that Georgie's little war in Arab land,
though in the news, has not yet got a name
that history will use to understand
just how the Yankees got into this mess,
and how they drew in that ass Tony Blair;
that gives a simple label to the process
which brought the dragon war out of its lair.
We've got some names, names formal and names cute,
we call it Dubya's War, or simply Occupation,
refer to George appearing in a flight-suit,
or else to problems when you build a nation.
And, if we hesitate, or seem to ponder, well
for the Iraqis this whole thing is hell.

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