Language Collaterally Damaged

                                      By Stojanka Radenovic Petkovic

Let’s play а language game
Don’t worry we’ll clue you in
Because we are World Leaders
We are Western Democracy
You just listen to us and comply
No more no less

We’ll not tolerate any arms
of mass destruction and 
we’ll go deep underground
where no sound can reach us
our breathing controlled by fans
sunrises and sunsets computerised
We’ll create there a mother
We’ll make for you a bomb
Not any bomb but A BOMB
Mother of All Bombs MOAB
No more no less

We Superpower we Ultra Power
We’ll practice Democracy first
We’ll be driving in circles
through desert sands in heavy tanks
leaving ugly trails and
we’ll protect you from
Axes of Evil and all those
outside the Coalition of the Willing
No more no less

But before we start a war game
we’ll visit the World first
UN, our friends and non-friends
We’ll tell them about our fears
for our Interests, our Freedom
our Democracy foremost
‘Cause we know the rest of the world,
will listen to us carefully
when we give to them our
unintelligent Intelligence Info
about dangers thousand miles away
No more no less

We’ll talk, talk and talk Diplomacy 
Day and night CNN war show will go
And we’ll see all those war-greedy
journalists, senators, retired generals,
proud wives with babies seeing off their
Heroes on overseas warring journey
And we’ll listen to the field generals
who we’ll be Doing their Jobs
No more no less

We’ll show our strength in numbers
Thousands of planes, thousand tones
of unguided and guided bombs
weapons Nobody knows yet
smart missiles able to Destroy & Degrade
some funny old buildings, cities, nations, regions
and even the World if it is Defiant
No more no less

We’ll promise Freedom & Democracy
Help in Rebuilding the Country
even if we’re not asked to do that
We’ll Bring Piece and Prosperity
to the peoples if they help us
destroy their countries first
No more no less

We’ll protect our Homeland
from the flocks of wild geese even,
returning home in the spring,
if they ever enter No Fly Zone
We’ll Retaliate for all the wrong
done and undone to our Homeland
No more no less

And before we start our
Operation Iraqi Freedom
before we start protecting our National Interest
in some very distant desert    
we’ll issue peaceful ultimatums,
the last 48-hour Deadline to the Enemy
No more no less

And You may ask CNN
What happens then?
Generals have given the World Leader
only three minutes
to tell them his decision
on War (read Attack) on Iraq
No more no less

Guess what happened then?
Indeed the World Leader
used less than Three Minutes
when he started the Humane war
to protect the world
He said Let’s go
No more no less

With the solders ready to go
we’ll play Christian games
We’ll give them special Bibles
with Scull & Bones signs
with Strike and Kill inscription
to make sure they understand
the new Commandment
before we start a war game
No more no less

Then we’ll send our Wave of Steel
to the thirsty desert
We’ll unroll our Carpet of Bombs
smart and stupid, clustered or MOABs
over sleepy cities of Enemy’s homeland
No more no less.

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