lighting fires
so all can see
not to destroy
but to illuminate

When one
extracts head
from deep in the sand
to look around
too many to count

But one by one
you and i
each one
we must help
or we lose
the whole friggin thing...

Dulce Et Decorum Est III & A Taste of Armageddon
(Or the Empire has no Clothes but a Disposition Matrix)

In due homage
to Horace, Owen & Mikhail
i humbly nod
for how sweet & glorious
it must be to kill or die
for God & country
via pompous duty
asphyxiatingly-wrapped
in ersatz honor
and a fool’s pride

so c'mon kiddies,
any up for good jingo sport?
who’s hungry & poor,
who wants to play
the hubris 'anything for profit' killing game?

As newspapers, rah rah
pied piper patriotism
with journalistic integrity
star spangled objectivity ha ha!
as a new battle/fear lies just around the corner
& armed forces day just weeks away hooray!

rally loyal citizens
to whitewash warm innocuous blood
off disgraced musket & sullied polluted flag
strike up the marching parade
manifest destiny down main street usa hurrah!

Awaken & open thine eyes
chauvinistic folk
come & see
your overseas deeds of nefarious brutality

You’re liable
for this appalling
tax-paid supported violence
exported to hamlets & villages

Assaulting families
who’ve never
did you any harm
in lands you've never heard of
nor care less for
so step on up
one & all

Take a trip
to the overflowing morgues
filled with small smashed bodies
once toddlers
full of laughter & life

Deeply inhale
the rancid stench
of scorched flesh
crispy burnt
to a black bubbly mass
by phosphorus

Gaze into doll dead eyes
frozen forever
by shock & awe
renditioned
via your God blessed terror from overhead

Atop a cold gurney
a stiff finger of a tiny hand
amidst a mish-mosh of mangled flesh
bulls-eyed at you war supporters

Watch
as grief-stricken father’s
zombie-wander
in shattered silence
sifting through ragged debris
devastating destruction
searching
for lost sons
missing daughters

Discovering
ripped wet mangled body parts
strewn out as pieces of a human jig-saw puzzle
taking home
the ear, the hand, the foot
to be quietly buried
while 6000 miles away
heroes giggle and snicker
calling this crime against humanity
'bugsplat'

Harken
to the heart-piercing shrieks
as soul-torn asunder mothers
wail like howling wild animals
as they find their loves buried
broken & bloody
in the rubble
of your magnificent works

Then if you can
please explain
to the unresponsive moaning
neonatal orphan
why your armed forces
just murdered his parents
by accident
then wave a condolence payment
like juicy enticement in his face

Celebrate
as your special op-forces
silently & quickly
dig out bullets
from civilian bodies
to cover their tracks
from being at the wrong address
again

Declare as a national holiday
murdered women at a bridal shower
or when
4 kids are droned to smithereens
while tending sheep
rejoice
in exported evil exploits
as great american victories
for which your war crimes always are

Trust flim-flam,
the spam propaganda spin
from subjective mass media
obey leaders and church bosses
pay your taxes
which finances anglo-terrorism
through illegal & immoral aggressive violence

Raise your filthy faux flag
higher higher ever higher
to cover the rising pile where the butchered lie
however
dear good christian citizens
no civic rag
could ever soar over
the sick slaying of the innocent

Consider Fallujha
surrounded & caged
as the cowering cringing unarmed civilian inhabitants
are shot, burned & barbequed
like slaughtered sitting ducks
in a ‘free-fire zone’ shooting gallery

Ponder
upon your sanctimonious attack
at a school in Bajour
where 69 children are massacred by joystick
as you deceive yourself
into believing
it did not happen
washing your hands
turning as you walk away

This is Sand Creek
Wounded Knee
My Lai
Haditha
too many other mass-media
contorted & distorted great triumphs

To whit
no doubt in my mind
the next war crime called
a ‘battle’
or a ‘humanitarian bombing’
will be patriotically anointed too
glorified
without question
heroes
of the homeland
or else…
ta ta

Forever lost in comparisons
Between you and the better man
Yeah you're always so quick
To take a bow
And your postcard sincerity
I've got to laugh at your circus sympathy
Don't you ever get tired
Of being yourself
It's getting so hard to find you
As you fade into your world of reprisal
As you slip into the comfort
Of your denial
Your patriotic smile
Your go down in style
And you say that you're not to blame
Yeah you're proud of what you did
And you'd do it again
But that's too bad about the little snag
All in the name of God and country
'Cause getting caught is such a drag
Even in the name of God and country
Still you're all the same to me
You're just trying to make points on national t.v.
Yeah you try to make points for God
God and country
You call this justice
I call this self-service
And I hope that I never find
What you call good conscience
Or peace of mind
As another man dies for God and country
'Cause I'm sure while you're sitting there talking
Well the bombs are falling
All in the name
All in the name
All in the name of God and country
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Greg Keelor / Jim Cuddy
God and Country lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Forever lost in comparisons
Between you and the better man
Yeah you're always so quick
To take a bow
And your postcard sincerity
I've got to laugh at your circus sympathy
Don't you ever get tired
Of being yourself
It's getting so hard to find you
As you fade into your world of reprisal
As you slip into the comfort
Of your denial
Your patriotic smile
Your go down in style
And you say that you're not to blame
Yeah you're proud of what you did
And you'd do it again
But that's too bad about the little snag
All in the name of God and country
'Cause getting caught is such a drag
Even in the name of God and country
Still you're all the same to me
You're just trying to make points on national t.v.
Yeah you try to make points for God
God and country
You call this justice
I call this self-service
And I hope that I never find
What you call good conscience
Or peace of mind
As another man dies for God and country
'Cause I'm sure while you're sitting there talking
Well the bombs are falling
All in the name
All in the name
All in the name of God and country
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Greg Keelor / Jim Cuddy
God and Country lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-ECI6f1tY&f...

Forever lost in comparisons
Between you and the better man
Yeah you're always so quick
To take a bow
And your postcard sincerity
I've got to laugh at your circus sympathy
Don't you ever get tired
Of being yourself
It's getting so hard to find you
As you fade into your world of reprisal
As you slip into the comfort
Of your denial
Your patriotic smile
Your go down in style
And you say that you're not to blame
Yeah you're proud of what you did
And you'd do it again
But that's too bad about the little snag
All in the name of God and country
'Cause getting caught is such a drag
Even in the name of God and country
Still you're all the same to me
You're just trying to make points on national t.v.
Yeah you try to make points for God
God and country
You call this justice
I call this self-service
And I hope that I never find
What you call good conscience
Or peace of mind
As another man dies for God and country
'Cause I'm sure while you're sitting there talking
Well the bombs are falling
All in the name
All in the name
All in the name of God and country
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Greg Keelor / Jim Cuddy
God and Country lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

This is about Donnie and Bibi folks. Both are wallowing in their respective 'coups' and this is an old and tried tool used by so many in similair circumstances. Wave that false flag higher and higher bibi and boobie, the pile of crimes is gonna grow very high indeed... <div style="display:block;margin:6px 0 0"><a class="a2a_dd" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2 <a href="http://Fwww.informationclearinghouse.info%2F52799-c.htm&title=Comment%20-%20The%20Long-Awaited%20Beginning%20of%20The%20End%20of%20America%E2%80%99s%20Imperial%20Ambitions">Fwww.informationclearinghouse.info%2F52799-c.htm&title=Comment%20-%20The%20Long-Awaited%20Beginning%20of%20The%20End%20of%20America%E2%80%99s%20Imperial%20Ambitions'><img src="https://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.png" width='171' height='16' border='0' alt='Share' srcset='https://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_342_32.png 2x'/>

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terrorism

https://youtu.be/xtkWIjBhFBw