On Winning the War and Losing the Alerts

On Winning the War and Losing the Alerts

On Winning the War and Losing the Alerts

We’re fighting terror in Iraq, Bush says,
So we won’t have to fight these guys right here.
Then why the orange alerts and canceled flights

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We’re fighting terror in Iraq, Bush says,
So we won’t have to fight these guys right here.
Then why the orange alerts and canceled flights
That leave the nation shaky-legged with fear?

No matter. Voters trust the GOP
To battle terror, so the polls have said.
Is orange what Supreme Commander Rove
Believes will turn election maps all red?

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