On this page I offer my satirical limericks in support of my opposition to the impending war against Iraq.
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Emperor Bush and King Blair on Holy Crusade
Composed 17 March 03
A satirical limerick or two
is but small hope to offer to you,
in that a war crime of devastation,
which will injure more than one nation,
is about to be launched by Bush and his crew.
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Composed 14 March 03
Biblical legends bespeak a Garden of Eden in Babylon,
in northern Iraq where the Euphrates and fertile rivers run.
And, now, as once God chastened Adam,
Bush wants to punish that cruel Saddam,
and, lusting for war,
Bush seems to just babble on.
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In his obsession to pounce upon Iraq,
Emperor Bush was stalled in his tracks by Chirac.
Thus, anything French,
to him reeked so much of a stench,
that Bush vowed France he might also attack.
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In the Congress, French fries are no more au courant,
As Freedom fries now signal a bellicose rant.
But, are memories so spare,
that Americans are unaware,
that the city of Washington was designed by Pierre L'Enfant?
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Il faut pense a ce que George Bush desire,
quand il commence au francais a rire,
A cause du Canada est bilingue,
va Bush notre pays a maligne?
C'est la question que je vous pose, c'est a dire.
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If Americans are so ready to cast aspersians
at Saddam Hussein and the rest of his Persians,
one has but to sit and ponder,
and grow nervous with wonder,
at who comes next in their list of aversions.
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As to the votes in the United Nations,
Bush was so upset with its peregrinations,
that he jettisoned rules democratic,
threatening, instead, to reign autocratic,
so that he could impose democracy by assassinations.
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Bush claims to free the world of autocracy,
by imposing, under martial law, democracy.
But, at international law,
He only smirks a guffaw,
in his God-crazed sense of theocracy.
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Not a bell in that President's mind even chimes
with the fact that starting wars are war crimes.
Instead, all he does is revert
to his book of homilies, and assert
that imposing martial law will bring good times.
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As for Bush's cohort in crime, Tony Blair,
that leader of New Labour with such elegant flair,
one has but to question what's the object
of his ever-so righteous a project.
Is it the Blair Witch Project, that affair?
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When the Bushites, with their God-worshipping Crusade,
launch against Baghdad a devastating fusillade
of 3,000 cruise missiles,
and propaganda-leaflet Epistles,
do you think the children there will be afraid?
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If the Crusaders think the only foul dictatorship is Iraqian,
why do they support an autocratic theocracy, Saudi Arabian,
in which, if you're not really careful
as to which god you're prayerful,
the State will chop off your head, in holy disdain? *
* Two Japanese tourists visiting Saudi Arabia were discovered praying to the God of Christianity. Wrong god, alas! They were sentenced by Saudi Arabia to be beheaded.
Would someone please check my French verse,
because I've not put enough time into that language's rehearse!
Composed 14 March 03
Now don't let me rant on, too sarcastic,
as to when Bush attacks Iraq with his hat-trick.
For, as one security firm avers,
and this might get on your nerves,
it's bombs away at 5 pm, on the day of St. Patrick.
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Now, as to why 5 pm was a prophetic hour to arrange,
I hope that it's not considered to be too out of range,
to avoid too much thrashing
where the bulls and bears are bashing,
on the teetering old New York Stock Exchange.
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As to why the ides of March seems in tune,
it would be an attack under the silvery full moon.
So, what could be more romantic
than to pull off this antic,
to charm old Saddam so that he'll swoon?
Your friendly scribe, Wayne
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