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Non-Fiction: ON SUICIDE BOMBING 22-07-2005 - by Simon   (109 words)
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Now that it’s becoming clear that bombing and shelling Iraqi citizens (10,000-odd in the past two years) swells the number of suicide attacks on coalition citizens, shouldn’t we label our troops suicide bombers too? Suicide by proxy, that is, minus the immediate element of bravery.

ON SUICIDE BOMBING

Suicide bombers are easily found
Some assembly’s required, but they’re there on the ground
Though it’s technically tricky to put them on trial
Because even their smallest components smell vile.

If we can’t try their parents, then why not their teachers?
Surround the whole building and drag out the preachers
Or, failing that, get the bits, rudely parade ‘em
As they do to our brave lads when we invade ‘em.








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Comment posted by shadow (2005-07-22 17:51:15 ) Send shadow a Private Message

Very thought-provoking poem, with a lot of anger coming through. I am puzzled too - if smuggling a bomb onto a train to kill innocent people is evil and despicable and beyond the pale (which it is, no argument about that) - why is flying overhead and dropping a bomb from a great height onto innocent people somehow okay?


Comment posted by Corin (2005-07-23 15:59:38 davidmturner@blueyonder.co.uk) Send Corin a Private Message

Simon,

Very good use of rhyme and irony in this. I don't understand why Tony Blair refuses to accept that his policy on Palestine and Iraq is the direct cause of these attacks. I do think that he is a moral politician, He seems to be twisting himself into knots to avoid the accusations of his own conscience.

David


Comment posted by Simon (2005-07-24 02:41:21 ) Send Simon a Private Message

Thanks, David. Blair seems to have a heart and a brain, unlike Bush, but maybe the problem is that when you find you've made a colossal mistake you can't admit it without everything collapsing, taking the Bush gang down with you, wrecking US/UK ties,
enraging the army and the Muslims--and ending your own career. It must be agony for him to follow the Bush line of never changing anything or firing anyone--because that would imply that you should have done it earlier. It's a head-scratcher.

Simon


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