Iraqi Haiku

a 12 year old boy

loses his family, is badly burned,

and loses both his arms bombed by

US junta

****

American tv networks censor

the face of the boy

****

'Central Command' and the media

cooperate in not showing the faces

names or home towns of

the constant stream of US soldier

casualties

*****

'Central Command' does not allow

the congressional representatives

of the people, their bosses,

into Iraq

****

Iraqis sit sweltering in their

own country, their power diverted

to air condition the offices

of occupier American and British

generals

****

Iraqis sit for hours in long lines

to buy their own gas, being

diverted out of the country

***

Oil companies and Halliburton

arrange sabotage of pipelines

as an excuse to raise prices.

Secretly they send oil out

of the country on tankers.



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