Bush & Company

Decider George made up his mind

That torture must be redefined

And he's prepared to take a stand

Against one more law of the land,

Since all those hapless torturees

Must be brought to their sorry knees

(But torture's not something they do

And saying they do is just not true).

It's no mistake that W hates

Those pesky legalized mandates.

As usual, he's sure that the flaw

Is not with him, but with the law.

Seems Poppy Bush could take no more

Of Junior's handling of the war

And so he called some pundits in

To set us on a better track

To get the hell out of Iraq;

But George may hold out for a win,

So when the next prez drops the ball,

Then he (or she) can take the fall.

NOTE: No one seems to be paying attention to the short, but

substantial, OUT OF IRAQ---A Practical Plan for Withdrawal

Now, Simon & Schuster, by George McGovern and William

Polk. Why is the obvious so often ignored?

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On weekends, at their neighboring estates,

Those old pals Dick and Rummy must complain

About the likes of Baker, Scowcroft, Gates

For lousing up the Cheney/Rumsfeld reign

And Poppy Bush for bringing those guys in it

To fix the Iraq war, but not to win it.

(Just whose war is it, anyway? We made

The little twerp's decision to invade!

Now Junior says we need communication

And worse, bi-partisan cooperation;

But worst of all is how he got so cozy

With that damned Democrat, Nancy Pelosi!)

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The Bush team are obsessed with wielding power

And won't see how their actions must turn sour---

The big ones---like the wars---but for the rest:

They'll tend to all your needs, they know what's best;

Truth is the doing can be rather tough.

(Do nothing when to say it is enough.)

As long as we can string you all along,

What does it matter if we're in the wrong?

We'll carry on against the best advice.

(Do nothing when to say it will suffice.)

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So many questions left unanswered need addressing:

About the Plame affair, Iraq and 9/11. . .

You can forget about the guilty ones confessing,

Unless it 's when and if they ever get to heaven.

One wonders if they worry that it might not happen---

That trip to heaven could go in the wrong direction;

Or are they so enamored of their own perfection

They wouldn't give the thought the least consideration?

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Osama's head is in a box;

I swear it's not a bunch of rocks;

It's filed under "classified,"

Not that there's anything to hide.

We said we'd get him live or dead;

The proof is that we've got his head.

It is not possible to win The War on Terror without first understanding the root causes of terrorism and the motives behind those declaring Jihad against the West.

On September 11, 2001, a small but potent faction of Middle Eastern terrorists calling themselves al-Qaeda, succeeded in carrying out the most heinous attack ever perpetrated on U.S. soil. The nation shocked and in mourning for the nearly 3,000 people killed, was at a loss for answers.

But instead of searching for the truth and disabling the terrorist clan, the Bush Administration sought to deceive the public and spin the facts into an opportunity to invade Iraq. Discussions with allies were halted, United Nations Weapons Inspectors were disbanded and U.S. troops, initially deployed to Afghanistan where the Taliban hosted al-Qaeda, were redirected to Iraq. As Operation Iraqi Freedom was carried out, President George W. Bush divided the world into two camps—one that was with him and one that was against him. In the meantime, the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and his chief Lieutenant Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri made their escape. Three-and-a-half years later, while Iraq disintegrates in civil war, becoming the base for terrorists it had never been prior to the U.S. invasion, the Taliban has reemerged in Afghanistan and bin Laden is still at large.

The small but potent al-Qaeda has now mushroomed into an international terrorist network and with the aid of assorted splinter-groups, perpetrate acts of terrorism across the globe.

Iran and North Korea have crashed the gates of the once exclusive nuclear club, attempting to thwart preemptive strikes against them by the U.S., and President Bush’s Axis of Evil has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The worldwide sympathy and support the United States first secured following the 9-11 attacks has all but evaporated as the Administration continues to disregard its allies and steamroll over the facts that led to this clash of civilizations.

With 16 government agencies now conceding that the war has increased the terrorist threat, mounting evidence that the President and Vice President Dick Cheney were not honest about the reasons for invading Iraq, a commanding number of retired U.S. generals condemning the Administration’s rigid “stay the course” policy there, members of the President’s own party distancing themselves from his belief system, opinion polls plummeting in every aspect of GOP leadership, and anti-American sentiment surging even among its allies, at what point does the President’s power implode?

Those who question the President’s authority are deemed terrorist appeasers and likened to Nazi-Fascist-Communist sympathizers by the President and his few remaining cohorts, while the Bill of Rights is all but eliminated by his decrees and signing statements—assuring his absolute power continues to corrupt absolutely.

President Bush admittedly does not negotiate with dissenters from any crowd—be they leaders of foreign nations, members opposing political parties, or even colleagues in his own inner circle. How then can he be expected to abolish this enemy called terrorism if he won’t explore its dark underbelly?

U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, including the unconditional support of Israel by the United States government, is unquestionably one of the core rationales behind the Arab world’s simmering rage against us. The Palestinians, invalidated and debased in their homeland, fuel that rage and when Israel revisited its strategy to invade its neighbor Lebanon, in August 2006, the United States was still standing by Israel’s side. However, the world community was not and Israeli troops were forced to retreat—but not before scores of lives had been extinguished on both sides of the border.

By facilitating the establishment of an equitable state for Palestine, the United States government will have taken a step in easing an underlying conflict that fuels the terrorism inferno. In demonstrating its willingness to seek out legitimate answers to the questions that still haunt Americans about September 11, 2001, the government can begin to regain the trust of allies it will undoubtedly need to call upon again in an uncertain world.

To Scott McClellan, the President's Former Spokesman

I didn't know I'd miss you, Scott—
Turns out I miss you quite a lot.

It wasn't you who screwed up, kid—
Your bosses were the ones who did.
The information that they gave you
Wasn't adequate to save you
From a sometimes hostile press
(Oh, the tension and the stress!)
Making you look like a sap,
Floundering in a media trap.
Now you're free and I can see
How much sweeter life must be.

Really, how was I to know
I was going to miss you so?

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To Tony Snow, the President's Current Spokesman

Tony, Tony, what a phony—
All you spout is pure baloney.

Once you said the president
Was a big embarrassment;
Now you trumpet all his goals,
Glibly filling in the holes
With your own impromptu spin,
So that the administration
Looks swell to the population.
Seems you've made it, boy—you're in!

Tony, Tony, what a phony—
All you spout is pure baloney.

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Bush One, Alas
"Ou sont les neiges d'antan?"
Where are the snows of yesteryear?
So long ago and yet so near
That I remember clearly now:
His "thousand points of light" and how
He bailed out in a parachute
When he was eighty to the day—
Now, don't tell me that wasn't cute!
The "I hate broccoli" line and hey,
Just how adorable was that?
And talk about a diplomat—
That guy knew just where it was at:
His Yale-educated brain
Warned him not to unseat Hussein.
Yes, times were "kinder," "gentler," too
And I know just what I could do:
I could forgive a whole lot for
The way it was before the war
And terror, 9/11 and more.

If not Al Gore or Kerry, then
Can't it be George the First again?