agenda

Paul Wolfowitz was hot to strike Iraq
since his assessment of the Carter years
and 'though the Bushes--pere et fils--knew jack
exploited it to stoke a nation's fears
to hang Saddam's head on the trophy wall
we sent our sons and daughters there to die
our teens who should be flirting at the mall
imperial enforcers of the Lie
pan-Arabism never bridged the rift
dividing Sunnis from the Shiite East
but war-time gives a president a lift
when confidence in him is at the least
Iraq's a "business opportunity"
as Hilary assessed it years ago
where mineral rights should be ours for free
our occupying army makes it so
our national repute rusts in the ditch
while Raytheon and Boeing come out rich