The Memorial Day Distracted
May 25th, 2008 | by Windspike |As the smoke peels
From your grill
Can you see
Our volunteers
Strung out
All over Iraq
Dug into the
Sea of sand
Or does it sting
As the dogs sear
And you cram down
Yet another beer
with nary a care
About what happens there
As the rich get
Richer still,
And you get stuck
With the bill
The war machine
Rages unencumbered
Driven, unchecked
Churning another
And another dollar bill
For those with shares
In companies
No bidding their way
In to contracts
Tossed into their laps
By pals they elected
Into political positions
Where they were able
To start the ignition
On yet another mission
Justified with blind ambition
And falsified ammunition
Bowling over the population
With fear and trepidation
Causing yet another military
Family to grieve
While you are grilling
And the smoke peels
Away leaving us raw and burning
For the promised justice
And justification
To no avail
We wait for
A new set of politicians
To deliver us from
A tenuous position
Stuck in a quagmire
Regardless ambition
Roots us in for the duration
Divorce no longer an option
Brought to you by
A man, using the excuse
To save us from the
Terrorism, only leaving us
Married to an crumbling
Iraqi Institution
Where our own Constitution
May crumble
As we fork over its protections
and the very freedom
The Military was intended
As its salvation
8 Responses to “The Memorial Day Distracted”
By Lisa on May 28, 2008 | Reply
“Memorial” Day is meant for veteran’s of all wars.
By windspike on May 28, 2008 | Reply
Really, Lisa? So is the poem, or didn’t you read it. If I have to interpret the poetry for you, then you are thicker than I thought.
Care to comment on any of the ideas presented therein, or do you continue to deploy the deflect and repel defense perfected by Karl Rove.
Truly, you should be highly offended by an Administration that is forking over our Constitutionally protected freedoms that people from many wars fought and died to yield simply because some President felt that vengeance and oil were a strong enough reason to go to war that he fabricated the necessary rationale to cloak and mask the real reasons for Iraq so that they could trick the American people….
Read Scott McClellan’s book if you need proof.
By Lisa on May 28, 2008 | Reply
I will not read his book because he is only legitimate if he is bashing Bush. And you will read it because of that. Before that he was just another Bushie to you guys.
Of course if he wrote anything other than this stuff he would only get 10 seconds of media coverage. What’s his motive I wonder. Money? r is he just bitter?
By windspike on May 28, 2008 | Reply
Or, alternatively, his conscience got the best of him.
Care to discuss the issues on the post, or are you content in bashing the character of a man who had the ear of the president for a lot longer than you?
By Lisa on May 28, 2008 | Reply
The content of the post is the same old same old. Our rights being taken away,no bid contracts etcetc.
Nothing new and I doubt a new set of politicians are going to make this the world you are dreaming of.
And the rich will continue to get richer,also nothing new there. That’s how it’s been before Bush and will be after Bush.
What exactly do yu think is going to change WS?
By Lisa on May 28, 2008 | Reply
I wnder if Scott Mclellan included this info in his new book.
“(Saddam) will rebuild his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and some day, some way, I am certain he will use that arsenal again, as he has 10 times since 1983″ — National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Feb 18, 1998
“I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons…I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.” — Clinton’s Secretary of Defense William Cohen in April of 2003
“There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein’s regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.” — Ted Kennedy, Sept 27, 2002
By Lisa on May 28, 2008 | Reply
Easy to back peddle when things aren’t going as well as we would like.
McClellan is just joining ranks with the others who back tracked on their statements.
He sees the writing on the wall. This book will open doors for him when we are dominated by democrats. Otherwise no one would want any part of him.
It’s all politics and nothing more.
By windspike on May 28, 2008 | Reply
Where’s the back peddling? And who was feeding the Dems with the intel? If you are going to drill, drill as deep as you can otherwise you lay blame in the wrong location.
Haven’t you listened to Dick Cheney explain why going into Baghdad was the wrong move oh, so long ago? I can find the youtube video in case your uninitiated.