Poem Rebuttle

[modman]

I did'nt like being sent a poem unsolicited. Maybe it's my fault for inadvertantly agreeing to recieve e-mails from this board but here is my poem for you to read.

Twas the night before Baghdad

Twas the night before Baghdad
And all through the base
Not a heartbeat was silent
Not a smile on one face

The soldiers at attention
Fists raised in the air
Saddam is a monster!
We must all go there!

So we loaded our planes
With our guns and our tanks
And we sent all the soldiers
To Kuwaits outer banks

From Kuwait, from Turkey
From Saudi and more
With battering rams
We knocked on his door

The Fedayin heard
All the military clatter
And ran to Saddam
To ask what was the matter

Don't worry he said
With a heartening ring
They financed my reign
They won't do this thing

We bombed all the buildings
Til the fires were glowing
While Baby Bush yelled
Keep the oil pipes flowing!

He should be a magician
Our Baby Bush, cuz you see
He created the biggest illusion
The WMD's

He lied to us all
About terror and pain
When all that he's after
Is monetary gain

For Daddy, and Barbara
And Baby Bush too
There is no such thing
As too much oil revenue

Some people believe
That it's for our own good
To bomb and to kill
To shed innocent blood

They sleep in their beds
Oblivious to lies
While we who have wakened
Hear bloodcurdling cries

Cries of our fathers,
Our brothers and sons
Sent to fight in a war
That cannot be won

We liberated them!
Our Baby Bush chimes
That is why they attack us
Time after time

With Christmas upon us
He steps up his work
Of campaigning again
The self serving jerk!

He'll don his flight suit
He'll have all his fun
Wishing Merry Christmas! Keep fighting!
And to all....Duck and Run!


written by mother of a soldier

 

[jimnyc]

Originally posted by modman
I did'nt like being sent a poem unsolicited. Maybe it's my fault for inadvertantly agreeing to recieve e-mails from this board but here is my poem for you to read.

You did agree, and there is a link at the bottom of the email to unsubscribe at any time you like. Would you like me to remove you manually from any further mailings?

P.S. - I would appreciate you utilizing the email or PM features in the future, as the rules clearly state.

 

[modman]

Originally posted by jimnyc
You did agree, and there is a link at the bottom of the email to unsubscribe at any time you like. Would you like me to remove you manually from any further mailings?

P.S. - I would appreciate you utilizing the email or PM features in the future, as the rules clearly state.

Yea if you can do it please remove me from this mailing list.

 

[eric]

Hey Modman,

I think you should take the pole out of your a**. Talk about anal !!

 

[jimnyc]

Originally posted by modman
Yea if you can do it please remove me from this mailing list.

Ok, you have been removed and will no longer receive any mailings.

Wasn't that much easier than whining on the board?

 

[tim_duncan2000]

That poem didn't seem to mention anything about the horrible things Saddam did, the Democrats making the same claims about WMD, the Democrats voting for war, or nations taking advantage of the oil-for-"food" program.

 

[_dmp_]

Originally posted by modman
written by mother of an Iraqi soldier

:ali:

 

[OCA]

Originally posted by dmp
:ali:

Was it the mother of an Iraqi soldier or American soldier? His post just says soldier and with the words to the poem it seems it would be a Habib mom but I don't see an edit message.

 

[OCA]

Originally posted by modman
Yea if you can do it please remove me from this mailing list.

Modman you are a complete weak piece of crap, as if this poem hurt you, waaaaaaa waaaaaaa!

 

[jimnyc]

The writer is Cynthia Anderson, and she is from the UK. You all would have known that if modman had followed the rules and posted a link to the poem he stole from another website.

http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/iraq_war_03.htm

 

[_dmp_]

Originally posted by OCA
Was it the mother of an Iraqi soldier or American soldier? His post just says soldier and with the words to the poem it seems it would be a Habib mom but I don't see an edit message.

Right - I changed it to 'Iraqi' because it's so sympathetic to the former Regime in Iraqi.

 

[clumzgirl]

Oh cripe, a poem complaining about soldiers dying. Not to be insensitive, but isn't the risk of death part of the package when you join the military? Or have the armed forced solely become a place to put in your years, and then recieve free education and benefits?
If you don't want to take that risk, don't enlist! There is no draft!
(I realize this poem was written my the mother of a British soldier, but it's being used in a US context.)

 

[5stringJeff]

You are right on, clumzgirl! As a veteran (and there are several on the board) I went in knowing the risks of serving. I did not serve in a combat zone, but I always knew that there was the chance that I could.

 

[SPIKESMYGOD]

Personally, I thought it was a very nifty lil' poem, even though the wording leads the reader to the wrong conclusions.

1) When writing about getting rich from the oil, she should have made it more obvious that she was referring to France, Germany, Russia, & the U.N.

2) When writing about all the innocent lives taken, she didn't make it obvious that she was referring to the nearly one million Kurds, Shiites, Christians, & Sunnis which Saddam executed & dumped into mass graves all over Iraq. Luckily, we have put up a "No Vacancy" sign on would-be future mass grave sites.

As for being a grieving mother, I had no idea Uday & Qusay's mom had such a poetic pen. Perhaps, she should have called it "The 17 Resolutions of Christmas."

Still, meter mistakes & erroneous references aside, it's a really nifty poem.

 

[Johnney]

Tito, Tito get me some tissue

 

[cloobi_dubis]

Man, you guys are pissy. I thought it was pretty funny.