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Lockdown Skeptics
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Zionist Comanders, & The Ballad of S Hussain national |
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 Wednesday October 16, 2002 15:40 by Sydney Bernard Smith - littleredhen sydneybernard at esatclear dot ie 2 Mulholland Ave., Dundalk 042 935 1498
 Satirical verse October 2000. When asked why his men shot stone-throwing Palestinian children, Israeli officer said "What else can we do?" Israeli Commandant Meets the Press. What can we do? asks Zion’s head of Ops. They lurk in slums, like cockroaches or rats; they waste no water washing, grow no crops, & dig no wells; they throw their pebbles at us, they dance in rage; they’re savages; they’re spoiled; need to be taught a lesson. We are few. We must defend our tanks. That deadly child! A stone? We shoot him. What else can we do? There again we find: The Ballad of S.Hussain in the dim & distant eighties well before the last hurrah, the wicked people of Iran had ditched their saintly Shah. with forty million fervent Shia Muslims on the boil the West preferred the Sunnis to be managing the oil. & Rumsfeld came to Baghdad in 1983: "we’ll help you to stand up to Ayatollah Khomeini; "this letter from our President tells all there is to say. Ronnie & the Pentagon will back you all the way. "all the arms & money that you could ever need, & patriotic principle, & where that fails, there’s greed." they cosseted, supplied him they armed him to the teeth, lauded & hero-worshipped him; they stoked his self-belief. the CIA approved him a golden boy was Saddam; they gave him a list of lefties & straightaway he shot’em. he wanted something nuclear - "it’s here! inside the gate?" (it stayed; UN inspectors found it, nineteen ninety-eight.) "we know you don’t mean any harm, - though if perchance you did be sure we’d come & get you & screw down your little lid. "you’d like to use a chemical? we wouldn’t make a fuss - this gink is fighting on our side he’s just like one of us! "what’s he doing that’s out of place? we’d really like to know - didn’t we use agent orange not so very long ago?" they didn’t throw their hands up, they didn’t roll their eyes, they didn’t point a finger at "evil undisguised." they didn’t turn their face away they never mentioned guilt - & they didn’t just encourage him they backed him to the hilt.
*************** Iran-Iraq fought eight long years; about a million died - the West was very happy that Saddam was on on its side. he asked Ambassador Glaspie how the US ranked Kuwait. said she "we’ve no position there." thinks he: "well well! why wait?..." & then they turned against him for taking them at their word. (ought one credit diplomats? now now, don’t be absurd.) they made themselves a demon - no finer to be had; & they killed a hundred thousand in the bombing of Baghdad... & with Kuwait set "free" once more the human rights abuses were twice as monstrous as before... (Amnesty has its uses.) |
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