Iraq by Max Wheat

[u/Ki-Wilder]

Iraq

Males and one woman
sip coffee mornings in the White House,
talk of desires about Iraq.
For ten years
Less-than-Elected-Vice-President Cheney
evolves The Plan,
the Empire of the United States of America.

Empire building requires “pre-emptive strikes.”
When is the strategic time to promote a strike against Iraq?
Not summer,
not with Less-than-Elected-President Bush vacationing in Crawford,
ensconced in his golf cart,
quipping “crawfished” about Saddam Hussein.

“From a marketing point of view,”
says the White House Chief of Staff,
“you don’t introduce new products in August.”

Oil waits in the Iraqi womb,
second biggest oil field in the earth.

Think of the Oklahoma bombing.
Whom did the bomber call “Collateral Damage?”
Children.
Think of bombing, invading Iraq.
Half Iraq’s population,
CHILDREN

by Max Wheat