Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld And, Alas, Powell Talk To the American People

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld And, Alas, Powell Talk To the American People

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld And, Alas, Powell Talk To the American People

They pushed the CIA to say
That nukes could quickly come our way–
Saddam might, with a finger snap,
Remove Chicago from the map.

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They pushed the CIA to say
That nukes could quickly come our way–
Saddam might, with a finger snap,
Remove Chicago from the map.
They took a lack of proof in stride.
They simply lied.

Intelligence? The Pentagon’s
Came straight from dorkish neocons
Employed to find Iraq in back
Of every terrorist attack.
With facts that failed to serve their side,
They simply lied.

The war’s opponents they’d deride
As wimps who’d like to run and hide
From threats we simply can’t abide.
The Gulf of Tonkin was their guide:
They simply lied, and lied, and lied.

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