They looked under Saddam’s bed <br />No W-M-Ds found there <br />Searching overhead <br />The shelves there too were bare <br /> <br />They raked through all the rubble <br />Born by liberating bombs <br />But, finding zero burst the bubble <br />Of their claims against Saddam <br /> <br />No imminent threat to our homeland <br />No W-M-D’s piled high <br />This pretext of evil contraband <br />Has caused too many to die <br /> <br />As bullies often do <br />When flaunting all their might <br />They bit off more than they could chew <br />In this unholy Pre-emptive fight <br /> <br />With no weapons of mass destruction <br />This strife was not called for <br />Could it be that oil production <br />Was the reason for this war? <br /> <br />Our valiant fighting men <br />Should never ever be <br />In harms way placed again <br />So irresponsibly<br /><br />Stanley Cooper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-war-of-pretext/
