GULF WAR: Some thoughts about American Kleptocracy & Petroleum Politics

	Yahoo, Cowboys!
	Blast dat dere varmit, Saddam Hussein!
	Isn't it fun ta kill fer oil
	An' watch da world go up in flame?

	Now I dun't much reckon 'bout politicks
	Err understan' komplex dings
	Bud I know wun dis fer certain:
	Any wun pushin' petrol prices too hi
	'ill get a ton ah bullets
	& smart bombs over dare skies.

	Lots ah people fight fer freedom
	Un a few fer ideology
	But Amerika kills fer petroleum –
	Cus dat equals wealth & power
	in Corporate-Think.


Ted:    So the Gulf War was all about petroleum?

Terri:  Basically. Perhaps the animosity between Bush and Hussein also clouded their 
        judgment. Once people become too emotional, they lose all common sense.

Kris:   Why do ordinary people have to pay for the stupidity of their leaders?

Terri:  fThat's how history works.


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from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A rant about the American invasion of Iraq and its insatiable thirst for oil.	
KEYWORDS: petroleum addiction, klepto-capitalism, Persian Gulf War, petrol-politics

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1997 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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