H e a r t S o n s & H e a r t D a u g h t e r s of A l l e n G i n s b e r g

N a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 4 : A r c h i v e s E d i t i o n

ELIOT KATZ

Gambling with Human Chips

No matter whether the war ends easy or in horror

One thing is certain: It was launched with lies

by a president looking drugged into the TV cameras

"Should Saddam choose confrontation," Bush noted,

"the American people can know that every measure

has been taken to avoid war," plainly lying

about who it is choosing the military option and

who has been narrowly intent on war despite a rainbow

of alternatives offered from every corner of Earth

Bush says "the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal

some of the most lethal weapons ever devised," forgetting

those thousands of US nukes & our own biochem weapons

Although Bush has pulled the U.S. out of the International

Criminal Court, he is now announcing which Iraqis

when captured will face war crimes trials

No U.S. reporter asks the question of how many Iraqis

can be killed before Bush is eligible for a seat

in the defendant's chair for initiating this illegal war

Because Bush cannot explain his policies, William Bennett

appears on every cable news station reciting the triumphs

of America in Europe West and East

Bennett claims democracy, not imperialism, has always been

the result of American militarism, but he leaves out El Salvador,

Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Chile, Angola's UNITA

Vietnam's 3.6 million dead, decades of South African apartheid

unknown millions dying middle passage slave ships

early American blankets mixed w/ smallpox & holy wars

Every nation has its progressive and regressive traditions

The question now is how will bombs affect 5 million in Baghdad

& will the dead applaud the U.S. as liberty's troops

If the Iraqi death toll exceeds the WTC, will the war still be

considered moral victory? How many Iraqi civilians

does the Bush gang think add up to one American life

Even if the war is short and the death toll low, even if

concerns of millions marching across Earth were overblown

will it have been right to have taken such a gamble

NYC, 3/03