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Alternative report on Iraq

                 IRAQ WAR ENQUIRY

(The frank and fearless Barrie Singleton Report)

 

Bush or Obama

Cowboy or charmer

The American way is no mystery.

If you're not 'with us'

With terror you mess

And you're plumb on the Wrong Side of History.

 

Anthony Blair

With deceitfulness flair

In omnipotence felt his divinity.

His efforts in war

Left a gangrenous sore

That will heal - the wrong end of infinity.

 

Alastair Campbell

Dispensed with preamble

When doubt was cast on Blair's integrity.

And his fury had shades

Of those other dark aides

Who frequent the wrong halls of Eternity.

 

If Tony had met

Heisenberg - well then - yet

He might have found cause to 'convert' and see:

It is well understood

Some uncertainty's good!

Don't get hooked on the wrong kind of certainty!

 

So now the World bleeds

From Anthony's deeds

And in truth there is no greater sin for me.

Contempt - he fanned to hate

And it sealed Britain's fate:

Crucified, by the wrong brand of infamy.

 

◄ Noblesse Oblige

Taken at the Flood ►

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barrie singleton

Mon 22nd Jun 2009 23:27

Oh Isobel. If you were male and had years of psychological nous, you would not be fooled so.
There is another orator - lawyer, full of vacuous rhetoric, on the world scene. Be cool - watch and wait. Thanks for comment - I notice the anti-gravity is holding up.

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Isobel

Mon 22nd Jun 2009 19:33

Your poem is clever as always Barrie - it was such a shame we ever fell for all that - and I had so much respect for Tony Blair-- still do in some ways - he just made one hell of a mistake.

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