Wednesday morning on my
Way to Bibles & Bagels at church
NPR interviewed Senator John
McCain about our exiting
Afghanistan in 2016 as the
President had expressed
Wrong guy to ask the senior
Senator from Arizona couldn’t
Pull troops out of a Mah-Jong
Competition much less out of
A losing proposition like
Afghanistan and he as much as
Said so oh had we just stayed in
Iraq there would have been no
Isis he likened the situation to
Korea Germany Japan come again
Why aren’t we pulling our troops
Out of these countries too I’m
Thinking Germany’s reunified
Japan’s leaning back to defensive
Spending and South Korea is
An industrial juggernaut no
It wasn’t all that long ago
McCain said we’re all Georgians
Now and wanted to push in
There plus his contribution to
Rock and roll lyrics bomb bomb
Bomb bomb bomb Iran he’s
Got me rockin’ and a reelin’
Wasn’t this the idiot who wanted
To bring Sarah Palin half-governor
Within a heart attack of the presidency
Now John’s not been all bad he did
Speak out against our use of torture
But he didn’t put his heart into
Saving Chelsea Manning or John
Kiriakou or getting the senate
Report on torture a wide hearing
Like you’d expect a stalwart to do
Maybe his heroism got all used up
When the country turned him down
We have such a bad record with these
Wars we try to hit Al Qaeda but we
Kill whole wedding parties we try to
Stop Isis and we burn and blast
Doctors without Borders and their
Patients mid-operation this afternoon
President Obama called the chief of
Médecins Sans Frontières in Geneva
To apologize for our mistake they
Ain’t buyin’ it and I agree Mr Pres
Your apologies are starting to sound
Routine if you catch my drift
Forces were notified the hospital
Was being bombed and for a full
Half hour the attack kept up
How’d you like to be a sitting
Duck for a full thirty minutes
While the heroes with whom you
Worked to save lives many injured
By our weapons intentionally or
Not lay burning on the operating
Tables while surgeons went in
Search of their eyeballs or bled
Out on debris saying that only
Takes fifteen seconds now you
Only got twenty-nine minutes
Forty-five seconds more of hell
To endure sorry my ass tell your
Generals to end this war
c. J.S.Manista, 2015
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