*********** Pax Americana ***********
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now pours the sewage onto the Iraqi street,
and cholera takes up her wasting reign.
the tigris and euphrates are defiled,
while on the earth pours radioactive rain...

now lies the treasure house of history,
raped, pillaged and laid bare.
now grieve the parents of the Infant scorched,
now weep the widows, hostage to despair...

now bullets ring out on the city streets,
disease and hunger breed with enmity,
and cluster bombs, beneath unwary feet,
perpetuate misery and atrocity...

let anarchy relate the weary tale,
since Baghdad's generals were bribed to flight.
now let repression reap the fourth reich's rule,
as Innocent Iraqi's are shot on sight...

yet must Iraq it's new found fuhrer praise,
embrace it's occupier and desolation.
declare in unison with happy heart,
"Thank You Herr Bush, For Bringing Liberation!"

-Ian Reed-