http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/poetrandy/29514 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; high cost for elimination&nbsp; of weapons of mass destruction out of control DOD reconstruction almost lost Iraqi oil production&nbsp; &nbsp; we&rsquo;ll never stop the insurgency even with the latest surgency even considering the urgency to end this stupid emergency &nbsp; how many soldiers will be killed their young lives suddenly ended or hopelessly severely wounded our leaders completely self-willed &nbsp; the world viewed our image all through this asinine scrimmage as though we pay homage to some strange pile of garbage&nbsp; &nbsp; what about a new paradigm&nbsp; leading to simple peacetime diplomacy instead of wartime not continued war crime &nbsp; let&rsquo;s throw all the bastards out sure a new president without old baggage could no doubt lead us without a cop-out&nbsp; &nbsp; let&rsquo;s bring home those GI&rsquo;s get our politicians to advise&nbsp; an end to our UN allies end this is what I visualize &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; high cost for elimination&nbsp; of weapons of mass destruction out of control DOD reconstruction almost lost Iraqi oil production&nbsp; &nbsp; we&rsquo;ll never stop the insurgency even with the latest surgency even considering the urgency to end this stupid emergency &nbsp; how many soldiers will be killed their young lives suddenly ended or hopelessly severely wounded our leaders completely self-willed &nbsp; the world viewed our image all through this asinine scrimmage as though we pay homage to some strange pile of garbage&nbsp; &nbsp; what about a new paradigm&nbsp; leading to simple peacetime diplomacy instead of wartime not continued war crime &nbsp; let&rsquo;s throw all the bastards out sure a new president without old baggage could no doubt lead us without a cop-out&nbsp; &nbsp; let&rsquo;s bring home those GI&rsquo;s get our politicians to advise&nbsp; an end to our UN allies end this is what I visualize en-us <p>I love this poem, it shares many concerns I have about the war.&nbsp; I just hope my brother who is over there for his second tour does not become a memeber of the third stanza</p> <br /> http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/poetrandy/29514/#c_268264 http://www.tehachapinews.com/home/Blog/poetrandy/29514/#c_268264 <p>I love this poem, it shares many concerns I have about the war.&nbsp; I just hope my brother who is over there for his second tour does not become a memeber of the third stanza</p> <br />