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Oh Beautiful
Michael D. Morrissey
March 3, 2007
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Oh Beautiful, your spacious skieswere never filled with so many liesas on 9/11, when a caveman in Afghanistanflew his planes into the Pentagonand the World Trade Center, pulverizing two,doing what no plane in history could ever doand a third one, just for the heck of iteight hours later, without even hitting it.Taking up the story where it startsof how Bin Laden beat the US Air Farcewe see the answer right away:he was trained by the CIA.But no, it wasn’t Bin Laden’s men who flew those planes.Not at all: they were Saddam Hussein’s.So we hung him, by logical deductionbecause he had Weapons of Mass Destructionnot. And after all he was a tyrant,for many years a friend and client,just like that nasty Noriega down in Panama,paid by the CIA Director, Dubya’s pa.Or, in the beginning, Ho Chi Minhbefore we decided to do him infor being a dirty domino, a commie,though he survived, as did his country,unlike several million Vietnameseand 58,000 Americans, but jeez,that’s the price we had to payto teach him the American Way.So when terror strikes, in the Gulf of Tonkin,in Washington, or downtown Manhattanwe raise the flag higher, higher and higher.Everybody must have his Reichstag fire.But believe it or not, that is the question.So let me make a small suggestion.The next time they try it, for crissake,make ’em get their story straight.Or better yet, when they say gostand up straight, and just say no.