TEXAN DUMMY

A POEM by: Fernando de Mello Pimentel

In the Oval Office sits a Texan dummy.
Who wages war with the Nation´s money.
Guns, Tanks, and Tomahawks...
He´s never heard of Peace talks.

He fooled the world with a phony election.
Planned by white conservative burocrats.
Al Gore´s loss pissed off the democrats!
The White House was taken by republican rats.

A year later, there was a terrorist attack.
It struck America on its capitalist pride.
Hit by 2 Jets, The Twin Towers collapsed.
America which was once a safe bet,
was now vulnerable to foreign threat.

He quickly took advantage of the nation´s fears,
as Americans broke down in a sea of tears.
We gotta get a scape-goat right away!!!
Bin-Laden or Saddam Hussein?
I don´t care! One of them has got to pay!

In a clearly desperate post-9/11 reaction...
He ordered his troops into Afghanistan...
His goals were to eliminate Bin Laden and The Taliban...
and also secure his 2004 re-election.

Turns out this mission became quite complicated.
The enemy hid in mountains and caves - their own territory!
Casualties were more and more frequent, as ambushes escalated.
Deja Vu? Looks much like the Vietnam War story!

Nevertheless, America´s campaign continued its bloodshed...
Months passed by, and still no sign of Bin-Laden!
Frustrated troops kept killing other rag-heads instead.
Bush was pretty astonished: “How come he´s not dead?!?”

Public Opinion wanted results, that Bush couldn´t deliver...
That´s when Rumsfeld came up with a brilliant idea!
I am pretty sure Saddam has Weapons of Mass Destruction...
I´ll have Kofi send his crew to Iraq for a detailed inspection!

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