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BATTLES FOR YPRES AND IRAQ AND FREEDOM





Greedy bankers have a yen for war, for the

Shoe to drop for, things to go wrong. The

War machine must have been happy in 1914.



Bankers were upset when Saddam went for

The Euro and declined our dollars; for this

Events had to go wrong with the WMD search.



We dig a hole like tunnel rats in Vietnam, and

Have to be pulled out backwards.  Even now our

Hindsight has the perspicuity of a blind possum.



We will have to pay for all the oil and iron we

Pull from the ground; even now our Hummers

And Bentleys are too expensive but not for them.



If the war stops too suddenly, what will they do

With all those aluminum helicopter engines and

Abram tanks. It will go to the Carlye Group portfolio.



The Romans mastered conspicuous consumption but

At least they wore their orgiastic profligacy as a badge.

Our CEOs of war have low profiles as merchants of death.



We must be made to fear them for if such is not the case

The consequences would be too severe to contemplate:

Freedoms curtailed, blackballed and no attorney client privilege