What can I say, but "good job?"

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Thank you.. I always fear backlashes for this kind of poem.

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very much enjoyed this piece, hits home on all the issues that really matter in this whole war. but alas for most ignorance is bliss, i for one am very glad you are not one of the ignorant.

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Nice peice - has a strong message. Thank you so much for sharing it.

Thank you for reading it and understanding. Sometimes people try so hard to do nothing- but sometimes some of us manage to accomplish great deeds in the brief windows given to us.

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Thank you all the more for reading it.

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very well written.

'cept for the last line, imho.
it only serves to inflame. it defeats the purpose of the whole poem. that is just me and my humble opinion though...

also,
'You toss accusations and hateful words,
You trade them like currency.'

that's ironic since
there seems to be a lot of hatred in this poem.
and lastly, since when has 'peace' been a 'hateful word'?

no offense or anything. good write..
cheers.

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The irony is in the hatred of the pacifist: the rage in the peaceful. Meaning their hatred for conservatives, or in this case, people who supported action in Iraq. One point of the poem is supposed to be the irony of wanting to help those subjugated peoples, but opposing actual action when such action is taken. Giving lip service to the plight of the imprisoned, murdered and raped, but turning a blind eye when it might mean a sacrifice on their part.

The end of the poem isnt meant to be harsh, but as an emotional "gripping" of the "brother" (or fellow American, Brit Westerner, whatever), holding them tight out of love, but also to keep them safe from themselves. The childish "stupid" is supposed to illustrate this, as it might contrast the serious, wordly proportion of the rest of the poem.

I hope I clarified.

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I appreciate what you're trying to do here, but if you're going to be effective in your political poetry, don't call the other side 'stupid' nor claiming that they're not American. Those are opinion judgements without any possible justification, and should be left out. I see your defense of it, but I think it simply takes too much from your poem. If you have to explain it, the poem has failed.

Know I neither agree nor disagree with your poem. I don't know what the best solution would have been. What we did wasn't right, but the alternative of inactivity wouldn't have been either. You make many assumptions in this poem about the party you're criticising, which isn't good: if you're trying to convince them of the seriousness of your standpoint, you don't want them to stop reading because of these little things.

fyi - we didn't find any nukes, but we did find biological weapons (and traces of them). These do classify as weapons of mass destruction, so while we didn't find what we said we would (that all turned out to be bookkeeping errors*), we found something. I'll look for cites if you want them.

*Years ago, Saddam asked his scientists to make all these wmds. Fortunately, they couldn't. They were too afraid of him to tell him the truth, and so on their records marked a higher-than-accurate number. When we asked them to destroy all of their weapons, they did. However, the amount they destroyed was less than the number they said they had, and so what we thought they had hadn't been there at all. That much was just a misunderstanding, though it's fortunate for us since those scientists helped us, and in turn themselves, much more than they thought they were at the time they fudged their records. Funny how things work out like that, huh?

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