nothing was required
everything he did was wrong
done-can't be undone
A contest entry
- Hate President Bush? What Would You Have Done Differently? by Mark Rickerby.
2250 points, ended June 22, 2008, 15 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Thanks for your entry but I asked for an in-depth, point by point description of what you would have done differently.
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Hello again dear poet, I am now co-host in this contest and Mark and I would be pleased if you would view the contest page again and consider re entering either a column or an essay expressing what YOU yourself would have possibly done differently to Bush, given the same circumstances? If you had been President, what decisions would you have taken in his shoes?
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Oh my, whilst you have not revealed what would have been right you have made a sad, sad statement which is oh so true, IT CAN'T BE UNDONE, none of those who lost their lives in Katrina, none of the American or English soldiers, none of the civilians, none of those that died can live again except in memory. Somebody shared with me recently that they feel sorry for Bush as his popularity is waning and asked me if I felt happy now? Happy? What a ridiculous question, I don't feel happy his popularity is waning, it's not a personality contest, it's about lives,limbs,collateral damage as a metaphor, and so much more. Who can be happy?
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What would have been right.
Building bridges and dams and levees and huge irrigation works would have been right. Building hydroelectric generators and nuclear generating plants would have been right.
Think of all the floodwater in the US being run off into huge lakes, man-made where needed to irrigate and replenish the aquifer. Think of superfast railways that could have been running by now. God! Think of all the wonderful things that could have been built with the money wasted on war. Think of the people who would have grown to respect the US instead of despise it.
Now there is no money.
Now there is some fool about to be elected to take the blame for the country falling apart while Curious George walks away. -
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I enjoyed your poem, short and to the point, I don't think it fulfilled the contest requirements , but your comments indicate you do know what you would have done, I didn't start the contest but I'd sure love to see the poem you would write with the info in your comment. Go for it.
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I've written too many like that already.
I just thought it would have been nice to follow a Haiku with a Haiku there.
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I have tried to applaud your reply but the system won't allow me. I echo your thoughts. I also feel the same way about Blair. He decimated the UK from the inside out and then walked away with a huge pension, a book deal worth millions and is touring the States on talk shows selling his ideology.
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Yeas, Blair too.
I sometimes still ponder on the notion that the pair of them were pawns to a hidden King who made a lot of money. Sometimes I speculate that the hidden king is named Osama. -
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That is indeed thought provoking speculation.
One of the first alliances between Bush and Blair was with the peace agreement with the IRA. They were allowed to keep their millions raised by sympathizers to fund terorism. They were allowed a considerable time to decommision arms and all the convicted terrorists were pardoned.
Top IRA Brass were found training Al Quida in their terror training camps.
The Modus Operandi of the 7/7 bombings here in the UK bore all the hallmarks of the IRA.
General H.Schwarzkoppf wrote his autobiography in 1998. He inadvertently revealed the battle plans and the cabinet who drew them up within that book.
Terrorists will make money out of their activities to fund their next. It occured to me to look into who profited from the share trading on the airlines, bearing in mind whoever premeditated the despicable attack of 911 and the links led back to Germany, that doesn't mean that there was a german responsible but that is where the person who profited had the account and then the trail ran dry ( according to Reuters )
If all of the terrorists on the planes had there passports with them to board the planes how were their passports recovered, intact without any damage, so that they were shown on news reports?
If the UN stated that they had carried out a thorough inspection of Iraq, with SH's permission, and presented those reports to both Bush and Blair that there were no weapons of mass destruction in situ why was the UN ordered out of Iraq by both B's, the information misrepresented and the Invasion carried out under the remit that they were looking for WMD?
Why hasn't Osama been found? Why were the prisoners kept at Abu Ghraib not treated accordingly under the terms of the Geneva Convention?
There are many more questions than answers. Why haven't Bush and Blair been held accountable for misrepresenting facts to Congress and Parliament?
I don't know whether Bush and Blair were anyone else's pawns but they utilized our taxes to fund their plans, our soldiers served with their lives in the belief of what they were told. Everyone has lost something or someone either in the military or as a civilian. And why?
The contest invites Bush haters, I don't hate him but I am concerned by his actions and his inactions.
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I suppose we'll never know.
I don't hate anybody. I will praise cleverness and hiss at stupidity. I am really surprised at the hatemongering that is allowed; even here. I clicked on a link here a few days ago to post a somewhat silly/somewhat instructive remark to someone and found that she was professing hatred' "for all Muslims. May they rot in Hell." I pointed out that most Muslims were innocents, some even little children. She retorted that they all had guns and were out to get her and concluded that I must hate all Jews. I asked her not to bother me anymore. How she got from here to there on that one I'll never know, but it seems many are running on the same rail. Pax. -
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Again I echo your concerns. It is all very well having the liberty of free speech but there is a fine line between expressing and referencing an opinion to that of incitement. I have been shocked several times myself. One occaision that is memorable was when someone who was anti-war/anti-American posted a comment that was inhumane to the extent that it made me nauseous on a poem I wrote for a paramedic injured in Iraq in an accident, he lost all four limbs , now whether or not I agree with the invasion is one thing, nothing gives anyone the right to leave despicable comments about good, glad he's a vegetable when the guy is a human being who was serving to try and save lives as a paramedic. I also had a lot of abuse from someone who assumed I was coloured because I wrote a poem about racism and was hounded for a year by a poet who objected to my asking if she could please consider the relatives of those still grieving when she posted an epic tribute to a terrorist. As for that poet vehemently hating all Muslims and ranting about Jews she is doing them and herself a disservice, there are quite simply good and bad in every race, caste, creed, gender and orientation, that's my perspective from this side of the pond, enough of my rambling, I am surely slowing the server down!
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