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Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
by Richard Wall
Being a meditation on the comings and goings of late in Arabia and Mesopotamia, and the significance of the number six, with apologies to the late, great E. E. Cummings.
That name has a good ring to it, doesn’t it?
But most of us know you
As just plain
Saddam
Your regime lasted 24 years
That’s quite a long time as dictators go
Two years longer than Mussolini
whom the people done strung up good and true,
Double Hitler
And about as long as
Your hero
Joe Stalin
But not as long as Franco
Or Salazar
Who fell off a deck chair and lost his mind
They still brought him papers to sign
Until they decided one day
To pull the plug
On his life support...
...read the rest of the poem at Lew Rockwell's site
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