9/11 An Anniversary Remembered

"They" did this to us

"Because they hate freedom"

Our leaders said

So we did this to "them"

"Because they were terrorists"

Our leaders said

 

No one rose out of the rubble 

No ones loved ones came home 

So pile coffins to the heavens 

and throw on some more

We're all cannon fodder

For their oil war

Author's Note

Ever wonder why a band of mercenaries like ISL can move on Iraq as quickly as they did and our leadership makes statements like " it'll be a long and slow fight" to remove ISL from the region? Ever wonder why the brutal public execution of 2 US reporters was used as an excuse to bring the wrath of US air power back into Iraq or why ISL would be stupid enough to give the US an excuse to bomb the shit out of them?
Ever wonder how a caliphate in the middle of the northern half of Iraq is a threat to the US or why ISL'S initial offensive stalled before they reached Baghdad? Ever wonder why US Afghanistan policy is obviously failing and yet no one's changed the base strategy since the first assault in 02, because there was no base strategy? Just a few questions our Jingo crazed press never seems to want to ask. On a personal note, I didn't lose friends on 9/11. I lost friends because of it. That's why this memorial poem spins another direction.

Reviews

[R Smith]

I often wonder how these small groups pose this huge threat to the west and how they suddenly appear so powerful out of nowhere, I see the war is not against terrorism but more about oil without it we collapse, are threats created to give our governments a reason to attack oil rich states, yes I can believe that but then I'm a sucker for conspiracy theories don't know why, mainly its so sad if true that thousands of americans are dying on battlefields when there was no need to be there.

[Marie]

There really was no need for them to be there, and yes, they died for nothing.

[Baby Ricochet]

I'm wagering long term US interest in Iraq at this point is a big, fat, US airbase in the norther half of the country. If that wouldn't give Iran an ulcer nothing would. ISL can play US airstrikes as the US siding with Assad who's pretty well despised in the Arab world now. Even among most Shiites.

[R Smith]

US and Assad, who'd have thought it ?

[Rachelle]

It's all about money. Oil and weapons are products. Create a demand.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Rachel

[Fran Marie]

`no one rose out of the rubble`... a unique write about Sept 11 th.....`

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Fran

[Lyn Anderson]

I understand. Terror begets terror. War begets war. Blood begets blood.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you KL

[hardeep sabharwal]

harsh reality

it is all power politics

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you sir

[Frieda P]

A bit of a different take on 9/11 here today...this speaks volumes Baby.

[Baby Ricochet]

I didn't lose friends on 9/11. I lost friends because of it. Thanks for stopping by

[Frieda P]

Same difference...