"The Iraqis didn't turn down the invitation, they simply failed to respond to it."

...gee, what a surprise!... i mean, what on earth can they have against the us?... especially at 'peace on earth' christmastime!

Clement-to-Michael Segue
by maia

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the world
not a creature was left unshopping-spree whirled;.
folks’ stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
so they'd be handy for dressing, getting out of there
and down to the cellar bomb shelter pell mell,
when the next good guys' attack makes their heaven a hell.

The children were huddled unsafe in their beds,
while visions of smart bombs roared in their heads;
and moms in their ‘kerchiefs, and dads in their caps,
had just settled down for their long ostrich naps,
when from out of the west there arose such a clatter
they all sprang from their beds to see what was the matter.

Away from their windows they flew, when a flash
blew open their shutters, broke everyone’s sash.
The moon on the breast of the sand and the snow
gave the luster of mid-day to objects below,
when what to their poor blast-burnt eyes should appear,
but a battalion of tanks and much death-flinging gear,
led by an old general, so lively and quick,
they knew in a moment, it must be Old Nick!

More rapid than eagles, those armies they came,
and he whistled and shouted, and called them by name;
“Now, Georgie! Now, Tony! Now, Christians and Jews!
On, Catholics, on Anglicans, Baptists, God’s crews!
To the top of each porch, to the top of each wall!
Now blast away! Blast away! Blast away all!

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
so, onto the housetops, their missiles they threw,
all the good guys’ full arsenals, Old Nick’s worst stuff, too.
And, then, in a twinkling, was heard on each roof
the knock of The Reaper, death’s horrible proof.

As they ran for their lives, and were turning around,
down each chimney an Old Nick came with a bound.
He was dressed all in black, from his head to his foot,
and his clothes were all thick with crematoriums’ soot;
a bundle of skulls he had flung on his back,
and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they glittered! His lips he did lick,
his cheeks were all hollow, looked sordid and sick.

His thin, smirking mouth was drawn tight as a bow,
and the beard of his chin was scraggly, did show
the stump of the pipe he held tight in his teeth,
the smoke of which formed a funeral wreath.
He had a thin face and a bony, thin body,
that rattled when moving, made him look shoddy.
He was skinny and dark, a right scary old wretch;
all would cry when they saw him, and instantly retch.

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
soon gave them to know he was all they could dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
emptied all the stockings, then turned with a jerk,
and laying his finger aside of his nose,
and giving a sneer, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to the roof, to his team gave a whistle,
and away they all flew like a blown-apart thistle.
But all heard him exclaim, ere he flew out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all who survive me tonight!”

love and hugs, maia
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For 16 years the US Army has been defeating the Iraqi people. We continue to blow up this nation without no regard for their civilians. The question Bush wants to know is, " How many Iraqis must he kill until they surrender all of their natural resources to American corporations so Bush can get his cut for going to war on their behalf. America's non-wealthy is a slush fund for the military industrial complex and their cousin Wall Street to wage war on the week. The wealthy in America who supported Adolf Hitler in WW2 took all of the tax breaks given to them by Andrew Mellon who invested that money in Germany because they hated the laws in America that tried to tell them what to do! The concept of Corporate law is based of the fact it allows the wealthy to avoid paying taxes. That is why America's corporation are investing in overseas companies who have poor population because they are using them to break or to by pass all of America's laws from Banking to labor. Nazism started in the United States. Hitler was on the pay role of America's bakers. Bush is the grandson of a Nazi sympathizer- Prescott Bush. The US ARMY has been pacifying people and nations since they killed their first Indian. Its the same game plan they have used since the 1800's. Iraq has become the next Indians.

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