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you wanted a villain
so you got him
you
wanted to create a monster
so you did
life is not a Hollywood movie
and the desert was not a backdrop
of a studio
Armed forces were not
the extras
(They are now suffering from the desert storm syndrome)
there were no props and cuts
Baghdad was not a movie set
Where the
real bombs were dropped
Did you ever go back to see if the splinter
Of
bomb had licked the life of a civilian
or a child.
what do you care
you just wanted to show
your military superiority
so you did.
A little
country smaller than your toe has
Kicked you so hard that you have to
invite the whole world To attack her.
Was it an experiment of a new
weapon?
Baghdad is a not laboratory. Baghdad is a history.
The
economic embargo is the biggest racist notion.
I have ever seen in the
modern history.
Iraqi children are drinking milk and eating food
Laced
with your arsenic.
You have sown a crop of hatred and I am afraid
When
it is going to be the harvest time.
by Ifti Nasim
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