[Newspoetry] Easy Pickings

[DL Emerick]

Easy Pickings

 

The whopping lies Bush told us,

That Iraq was a threat to the US,

Is easily deconstructed by facts

Of the first war plan he drafted:

 

The US planned to use troops,

Thirty thousand, for a few weeks,

Then all would be over, victorious.

 

Nor was a need for WMD control,

To keep US forces looking, vainly,

No fear of foreign elements in Iraq,

Such as terrorists allegedly there,

Who might seize the State control,

Or use any of the alleged WMDs.

 

In short, the entire war plan proves

That Bush did not believe any claim:

There was no WMD to worry about,

There were no terrorists to fear there,

Saddam was no big deal of a threat,

And there was no plan for democracy,

As a principal policy goal of the US.

 

Strangely, all media, left and right,

Have not talked of a contradiction,

Between how they planned for war,

And how they prepared for peace,

As the most indicative fact of lies:

You prepare for the war you want,

For the peace you think follows.

We did, oh we did: contractiction,

The planning opposed speeches,

Grimly given as the gravest of lies.

 

Oh, wherefore art thou, my Hegel?

Why are contradictions not news?

Are they so much a part of news,

That you do not see them as lies,

But just as a matter of controversy,

And ignore a sharp eye for contrast,

Between speeches and preparations?

 

 

(** and this says nothing of the war,

Of what came after, in contradicting

All the boldest lying claims, as well!)

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