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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.

Calvin Trillin

June 12, 2003

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.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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