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Outrage
by Dan Brown
What if:
The Iranians were practicing terrorism, and
The Contra rebels were practicing terrorism, and
The Congress made it illegal to conspiratorially or otherwise assist either, and
The Reagan/Bush administration did it anyway, and
They got caught, and
The President of the United States pardoned these terrorist helpers.
Should we be outraged?
How about if those terrorist assisters somehow managed to get back into the government, and
They developed a plan to get revenge on their old friend Saddam Hussein and get his oil, and
They wrote about it back in the 1990s, and
They called their plan the Plan for the New American Century, and
They used a terrorist attack on America to falsely justify their plan, and
They did it without international support, and
They tried to cover it up by saying it was for the U.N., but
The U.N. said "we have a better idea," and
They said "tough we're the last SuperPower, ha ha ha ha ha," and
They launched an unprovoked invasion anyway.
Should we be outraged?
How about if those creepy Iranian/Contra terrorist aiders invaded Afghanistan, and
They told everybody the Geneva Convention no longer applied to them, and
They displayed prisoners bound, blindfolded and naked on stretchers, and
They displayed prisoners with hoods on their heads, and
They displayed prisoners in chain-link cages, and
They held US citizens without recourse to lawyers, and
They coined a term that they said got them off the hook, and
They refused to abide by the Convention on Torture even though they were signatories, and
Prisoners died in their custody from blunt trauma, and
Amnesty International said they were "alarmed", and
Then some of their own soldiers were captured and displayed, and
They said "that's against the Geneva Convention", and
People shook their heads at their arrogance, so
They blew up civilians and TV stations and radio in violation of the
Geneva Convention.
Should we be outraged?
How about if they kept Iraq controlled for 12 years, and
They depleted their conventional military capability by 60%, and
They found and destroyed 90% of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and
Wars, sanctions, and disease brought the median age of Iraqis to 15 years old, and
The UN reinstated a weapons inspection program, and
It began to look like the program was working, and
The Contra/Iranian terrorist-funding plotters began to fear they wouldn't get their war, and
Hans Blix said he was a few months from complete disarmament, and
Twelve years is lots shorter than how long Israel's been in violation of resolutions, and
Hans Blix published twelve steps to complete disarmament, and
The IAEA guy said "No way does Iraq have nuclear weapon capability," and
The guy who helped sell the My Lai story said "Hey read this paper evidence," and
Everyone laughed because it was such a poor forgery, and
All the greatest nations on Earth said "War is not the Answer," and
The Iran/Contra terrorist assistants said we're going alone, and
Poor Eritrea said "we'll say it's okay too for a bit of money," and
They said "Sure" and pulled the money out of the mouths of starving babies at home, and
They used it to buy support, but
Still all the greatest nations on Earth said "War is not the Answer," and
They stole some more money from schools and the sick and pregnant moms, and
They tried to give it to Turkey, and
They winked at Turkey about their little "Kurdish problem," and
Turkey remembered that they were a Democracy and said like other great nations "No," and
They said "Tough we'll do it with just our Anglo-Saxon buddies," and
They got less than 10% of their invading military from Britain, and
A paltry one percent from Australia, and
Morocco said "We'll let you blow up monkeys", and
The world rose up to resist their hegemony, and
They invaded Iraq anyway.
Should we be outraged?
I am.
Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota
March 28, 2003
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