whose guilt trip is it Mr Bush?
A poem by Rex Tyler (rex@cooksdelight.co.uk)
Source: www.cooksdelight.co.uk


we followed them
blindly
into battle
Bush and all his young men
gun's ablaze
we bombed Baghdad
until the ground rocked
daily
weapons of destruction
our malaise
Saddam,the awful
tyrrant was disposed of
his palaces fire-bombed
he left for dead
his 2 sons shot to pieces
in some fire fight
matters coming to an awesome head
the American's their guns
their tanks,
oppressing
seen as rulers
lots of
untold stress
they lit a fire
fuelled chiefly on emotion
and now 1 year on
there's an awful mess
people want to rule
to know their destiny
America the bully
shoots its way
out of situations
which are paramountly
obvious
and clearly there
must be a better way
Blair's gone quiet
the war is again bloody
Bush hopes to get back
in charge again
He really hasn't been good
for the planet
Livingstone was right
that fact is plain
we followed them
blindly
into battle
slaughtered thousands
and we now expect
people to come round
and throw us roses
and when its bombs and
grenades we object
we call them thugs and terrorists
invaders,
we tore the life and soul
out of their state
sanctions left their
children dead and dying
the war increased
that suffering of late
mediation seems not
in our psche
its gunfights, tanks
and hardware thats engaged
resolve is with the people
of the country
a year on in emotions
we've all aged

I said before
we went to war
its madness
we marched
we wrote our poems
but Dear Blair
followed Bush
into the paths of evil
and now we pay a high price to
be there
you can't fight fire with fire
we have to give up
the oil
the dreams
the dosh
we'd hoped to make
the people of IRAQ
have sufferred greatly
and now they want
a share of their own cake

suicide is nothing
when there's nothing
when oppressed, and sanctioned
right up to the hilt
when you've lost your family
homes, and way of life
Then someone else must also share
some guilt