The Graveyard of Empires

- may it live up to its name again!

Written late June 2011 - (144 lines)

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Afghanistan was SO beautiful
Before deadly conflict came to Kabul
Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif
The foreign invaders cause nothing but grief
Adding to ten years of civil war
Afghanistan cannot take any more

And can you remember why they went there?
Oh yes, because of that nightmare
Staged in America two thousand and one
To show what degree of evil can be done
But September eleven was a backdoor job
Sold to a numbed revenge-seeking mob
As a cowardly attack on innocent USA
By mad Muslim militants who came all the way
From training camps in remote Afghanistan
And hated, for no reason, all things American -
And if you believe that, well, anything
For invasion plans had long been in full swing
So the way was suddenly cleared and paved
For whatever the Bush administration craved
In blood and treasure from his own countrymen
No price was too high - would they fall for it again?

Stating the obvious: they probably would
If suitably prepared by Fox News and Hollywood...

Agreed, America was attacked by terrorists
But the names on the official wanted lists
Are all false, and those in high places know
That Afghanistan was not the proper place to go
And that anyone who really wants to look for them
Should visit Washington and of course Jerusalem!

But Mullah Omar and the Taliban
Did not fit The New World Order plan
For Central Asia's power play
So could not be allowed to stay
Therefore they had to be removed
And although nobody ever proved
That they or Osama had anything to do
With September eleven, America flew
Into action most eagerly
After having immediately
With lies and deceit and comical twists
Blamed the attacks on the Islamists

The real world is very different to this
Fairytale of good versus evil - do not miss
Any opportunity to find out what is what
It will seldom correspond with the version you got
From official news channels if you live in the West
But for your own sake do put them to the test

Always listen to the voice that has
The logical answer, in this case: OIL AND GAS

As the Caspian basin is full of both
The region may expect enormous growth
In the short-to-medium and even long run
But before any profits can be won
The goods must be brought to markets far
From the nations where the resources are
(The major ones: Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan)
So several pipelines must be built
At great cost but of course no guilt
At least one across Afghanistan
Continuing right through Pakistan
Reaching seaports and India -
WHY? Mainly hysteria
That Islamic Iran, though the shortest route
Which therefore ought to perfectly suit
Cold cash and logic, MUST be bypassed
So any other nation could be trespassed
Upon to serve that selfish goal
Even if it meant turning the whole
Region upside down through wars
Who cares so long as business scores
And the Judeo-Christian West
Outperforms all the rest

And Afghanistan itself, say new estimates
Has mineral wealth that some foreign states
Would love to get their bloody and dirty hands on:
Three trillion dollars worth, according to one

Plus controlling another rich trade:
Ninety-plus percent of all heroin is made
In Afghanistan today, although the Taliban
Had all but wiped out the poppies through a ban
Imposed towards the end of their brief term
As official UN statistics confirm

Another component in America's plan:
Surrounding or containing China and Iran
In short, empire building at its worst
But that toxic bubble, inshallah, will burst
Any moment now - and good people pray
They will live to greet that happy day

So, all in all, and with maybe some to spare
Plenty of good reasons to go, AND STAY, there

If you think I am just kicking up a fuss
Do your own research, then let us discuss!

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The project progressing today was begun
Many years ago when David Ben-Gurion
Stated that a greater risk to Israel
Than all Arab nations combined was - well?
In the thoughts and words of that evil man
He claimed that it was (have you guessed it?) PAKISTAN
And even the not-so-clever can now see
The enemy of civilised humanity
International Zionism at work yet again
Using precious funds and able-bodied men
Of other nations to pursue and implement
Its own grand agenda, always intent
On causing chaos and mayhem everywhere
For Zion has never been known to spare
Anyone or anything getting in the way
In the long slow march to rule the world one day...

"And what has this to do with Afghanistan?"
Excuse me! And wake up NOW - if you can!
More than we know and maybe everything
Connect the dots and see a dreadful string
Of events that spread cancer according to a plan
Leading to infested Afghanistan
For cell by cell and bite by bite
That persistent predatory parasite
Known as The Snake of Zion is fed
By death - until we cut off its head!

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Everyone who came before them withdrew!
What makes them think that they can do
What nobody ever achieved before?
They might win every battle but will still lose the war!

If more NATO deaths are what it takes to ease
Afghanistan's suffering: more body bags please!
The more the merrier - even Islamists will dance!
And the sooner the better, for what else will advance
The day when the ghastly nightmare ends?
We should all be very careful who we take as friends!

Print this now and mount it in a frame:

Do not believe any spin-doctored claim
For they serve only the colonisers aim
Which was and remains to kill and maim
Like the other empires who recklessly came
They could not resist the lure of the Great Game
For power, resources and lasting fame
But America's and NATOs fate will be the same
As the British and Soviets: the Afghans will tame
The brutal invaders, some will leave lame
And many be consumed in the beautiful flame
Of resistance, while the rest will leave in shame
Having only themselves (and Zion!) to blame
May the Graveyard of Empires live up to its name!

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Copyright © 2011 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Predators

- also known as UAVs, or Crusaders

Written mid December 2009 - (137 lines)
 
Dedicated to the heroes resisting The Last Crusade
using any means available - more power to them!
 
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NOTE:
UAV stands for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,
also known as drone, but to many of us
it means Unlimited American Violence.
One US drone design is called the Predator.

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On the eighteenth of June two thousand and four
The Great Satan opened the door
To Hell a little wider than before
When a drone attack killed seven more

The target? A fine and courageous young man
Called Nek Mohammed in Waziristan
Only twentynine when he was killed
Recklessly brave and naturally skilled
In the arts of combat, he had learnt the trade
And his fearsome reputation was made
Fighting alongside the Taliban
In neighbouring Afghanistan
His comrades in arms were proud to attest
That Nek Mohammed was simply the best

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Those cowardly drone attacks
A barbaric policy which clearly lacks
Any basis in international law
Here, for the record, the fatal flaw:
Extrajudicial killings are a crime
Against humanity, and the prime
Responsibility will come to rest
On the chief commander - you wish to test?

For every so-called terrorist
Killed this way a sickening list
Of men and women and children grows
When another Hellfire missile blows
Off their arms or legs or heads
Maybe murdered asleep in their beds
By the Judeo-Christian West
Whose behaviour fails any test
Of proportion, justice, necessity
It is an affront to humanity
And those who defend it must explain how!
A civilised world would stop it right NOW!

All resistance fighters, try
To blow those Predators out of the sky!

The War on Terror is not only obscene
It is self-defeating, as clearly seen
Whichever way you care to read
The tragic statistics of blood and greed
For the all-revealing bottom line
Is very easy to define:
For every victim of this war
Ten thousand will hate you even more

Is it making you safer? Not in the least!
More power to the heroes who fight the beast
Of Zionist-driven conflict everywhere
Rest assured that a measured share
Of the just retribution deservedly due
Will come, inshallah, to a place near you

Have faith, will travel, no job too small
Plans are in progress to visit you all
For time and numbers are on their side
So when and where are you going to hide?

Distance no problem, they will follow you home
Regardless what zig-zag trail you may roam
And the very moment they arrive in town
Will sniff you out and hunt you down

And it may happen sooner than you think
So do not go to sleep or even blink
For having ignored every warning sign
From brutally occupied Palestine
More than sixty wasted years
Do not complain when it appears
Right on your doorstep, but listen well
They will not bother to ring the bell
For they know it is the right place
They will not need to see your face
They know you are guilty and one of those
So will come to administer a suitable dose
Of the very medicine you prescribed
For them so long, and will not be bribed
However much you are able to pay
To abandon their mission and just go away

Take nothing for granted, do not assume
That you will be safe there, locked in your room
Condemned as a prisoner of your own past
Live every day as if the last
As indeed it may well be -
Do not expect any tears from me
If suddenly your past catches up with you
For what do you really expect them to do?

Are you sitting comfortably?
But why should YOU have that luxury
When every fundamental right
Has been denied those who fight
The very ideas your government
Imposes on them, as ever hell-bent
On re-engineering as it sees fit
The rest of the world, so carelessly lit
The fuse that promptly blew up in its face
The fire is spreading and gathering pace
Now suffer every consequence
Of your evil belligerence

This prediction may sound like a curse:
Before it gets better it will get worse
Until the day sweet revenge has been won
For justice must and will be done

May the bereaved and maimed all sue
Every single one of you
Murderers, killers, robbers, cheats
Mission accomplished when it defeats
The Last Crusade - so do not relax
For they will find you and stop you in your tracks

By any code of morals or law
Your only option is to withdraw
They will never give up the fight
For they know what they do is right

In the International Criminal Court
Thousands of battles wait to be fought
So drag them all off now to the Hague
Even if prospects of conviction are vague
And justice as ever may seem remote
Who knows, when the judges finally vote
The overwhelming evidence
Of war crimes may shatter any defence
Your lawyers constructed, and so may rule
The invasions and wars illegal and cruel
And order those countries to compensate
All victims of terror by the state
Individual perpetrators to be
Kept securely under lock and key

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Predators go home while you still can
Leave Afghanistan and Pakistan
North and South Waziristan
To their rightful owners - no American
Will be welcome there for a thousand years
Ignore the advice and cry more bitter tears

And should you not like what the postman brings
Look in the mirror until a bell rings
No, not the door bell, somewhere in your mind
But you may hear nothing because you are blind

You Crusaders, arrogant like few
Firing poisoned arrows from the blue
Never forget that what they do
Is neither evil nor unfair nor new
But simply: "Your goods returned to you"

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Copyright © 2009 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

Which Holocaust?

- for sadly history is full of them

Written July 2008 - (810 lines)

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INTRODUCTION:
Definition of the word HOLOCAUST:
Middle English,
from Late Latin holocaustum,
from Greek holokauston,
from neuter of holokaustos = burnt whole,
from hol + kaustos = whole + burnt

1 - a sacrifice consumed by fire.
2 - a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life,
especially through fire.
3 - often with a capital H: the mass slaughter of European civilians
and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
(end of definition)

But it has, unfortunately and incorrectly, become synonymous with
the Nazi persecution of the Jews only, no doubt due to the
efficiency and persistence of the Zionist propaganda machine.
The main aim of the poem is simply to redress that imbalance.
Although it briefly surveys many of the known holocausts from
more recent world history, it concentrates on America and the
Soviet Union, as they are the two outstanding examples
and, as they represent diametrically opposed systems,
they are particularly interesting to examine:

America - the self-imposed leader of the Christian
and (sort-of) democratic West,
representing a free (though manipulated) market economy
and private enterprise gone totally mad,
and responsible for one holocaust after another,

The Soviet Union - a dictatorial atheist ideology
turned into a rigid planned state economy,
responsible for one uninterrupted holocaust at home
with territorial expansions.
Structure:
The poem does not follow a strictly chronological order
but can of course be read top-down sequentially.
Or the reader can scroll down to a desired section
and concentrate on reading that.
Some of the sections are quite long
(America 272 lines, the Soviet Union 147 lines, Palestine 71 lines)
and I did consider breaking up the poem into several shorter ones.

To aid the reader in locating a particular section,
the sequence is as follows, with number of lines:
Intro - 25
Spanish in South and Central America - 31
The United States - 272
The Soviet Union - 147
Red China - 42
Nazi Germany - 24
Dresden Bombing Raid 1945 - 10
World War 1 and World War 2 - 18
Iraq-Iran War 1980-88 - 12
Australian Aboriginees - 6
Armenians 1915 - 6
Indian Partition 1947 - 15
Cambodia 1975-79 - 6
African Slave Trade - 10
Ethiopia late 1970s - 8
Darfur, Sudan - 8
Rwanda/Congo – 16
Srbrenica, Bosnia 1995 - 12
Palestine - 71
Conclusion - 67
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Let me stress that I mean absolutely no disrespect
to victims of any holocaust not covered in the poem,
likewise it may seem insulting to cover say 2 million deaths
in 6 or 8 lines, but a writer has to make choices,
which events to concentrate on etc, and I hope that the
last few lines of the poem make my personal position clear:
that a human life is a human life.

The poem frequently uses the term "the Christian West"
as opposed to the currently used "the West".
But the West is overwhelmingly Christian, and not just in theory,
so it is not only a legitimate and appropriate expression but,
given the ongoing witch-hunt against Islam and Muslims,
it is absolutely vital to keep pointing out that all the atrocities
perpetrated by the West around the world are actually done with
the blessing of the Christian component of the collective West -
or it would immediately stop, repent and rectify its behaviour.

A long poem, yes - but I hope that the reader will persevere,
as I did in writing it, and see it through to the end.
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Rarely pausing to catch your breath
You go on about persecution and death
On a scale so incomprehensibly vast
It makes all other tragedies, past
Or present, pale into insignificance
Until blue in the face - and here is the chance
To get an important question out
And so you all hear it we are going to shout:
WHICH HOLOCAUST ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

And the question is valid for the book
Of history is full of them, take a look
How far back do you wish to go?
A casual survey will quickly show
How common they are, so nothing new
Or terribly special, indeed quite a few
Are far worse than the one you market so well
On behalf of Zionism and Israel

Used and abused to always get your way
On the field of international power play
Like an ever-present red card up your sleeve
With hypnotic insistence you will have us believe
That this is the worst that ever took place
In the long journey of the human race -
NOT SO! Read on and a string of strong
Examples and evidence will prove you wrong

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The level of barbarity unveiled
By the Catholic Spaniards after they sailed
Across the Atlantic to the Americas
Is staggering even today and has
Few equals among the hideous crimes
Perpetrated in historical times

In acts of unspeakable savagery
They set loose their destructive energy
Entire peoples and cultures wiped out
By the Virgin Mary's truly devout
And for those reluctant to accept God's word
It was forced conversion by the sword
Or another innocent head would roll -
Will we ever know the toll?

Ages of wisdom piled high and burnt
Some of that knowledge may have to be learnt
The hard and slow way all over again
Thanks to Christianity's zealous men

Irreplaceable artefacts looted and lost
Some were carefully ground to dust
In a far from unique combination of sheer
Superstition and mindless fear
Others were smashed or melted down
All done by those representing the crown
Of Christian Europe from where they came
And all are equally to blame
So must share the eternal shame
For crimes committed in the name
Of those they would so piously claim
To admire, revere and worship most:
The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost

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A few decades later more blood was spent
Much further north on that same continent
For the founding fathers were not content
To take just a little, they wanted it all
And sure it was sanctioned by divine call
The Quakers and other Christians
Set out to exterminate the Indians
Driving the natives from their own land
By any means at all that came to hand

The decline in numbers was alarmingly quick
And one particularly dirty trick
Made a contribution to the rapid decrease:
Trading blankets infested with deadly disease

An unmitigated catastrophy
For the natives it was fight or flee
And they did resist heroically
But of course were defeated eventually

Caged today in reservations across
Their vast ancestral lands, their loss
As great as any has ever been
The few survivors are increasingly seen
Turning to alcohol and to drugs
While the victorious Christian thugs
Have long since shared their unlawful gains
From the Rocky Mountains to the Great Plains
From Alaska down to Florida -
God bless America!

From New England to the Pacific West
The Christian settlers were doing their best
To live up to their cruel credo which read:
The only good Indian is one who is dead

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And every step along the way
From then to our present day
Confirms that the true American dream
Is to concoct yet another scheme
To extend its evil influence
Its obvious goal is world dominance

In August nineteen fortyfive
Two hundred thousand were burnt alive
Or turned to radioactive dust
In an instant two thriving cities lost -
But Japan was already broken by then
And objections had come from the military men
Who had no strategic targets to destroy
But somebody wanted to test the new toy
So persuaded Truman to deploy
The innocently nicknamed Little Boy

Another incentive, the expanding Red Star
So sending the message to the USSR:
"We have the weapon and you now know it works
But where and when the next bomber lurks..."

And so it was on that shameful day
That the deadliest of all known birds of prey
Was spotted and named the Enola Gay
A toxic egg, believed to be grey
Was dropped and then it flew swiftly away...

Inexcusable to detonate this man-made sun
And a holocaust and war crime if ever there was one!
But incredibly, later the American
Joint victors imposed upon Japan
A pacifist constitution to this day -
If justice and reason had anything to say
It would have been done the other way!

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And from there the ever helpful Uncle Sam
Moved on to Korea and then to Vietnam
Where massacres, Agent Orange and napalm
Destroyed so much and did nothing to calm
The people or solve the situation there
But of course America would later declare
That abysmal failure both a necessity
And a success for all humanity

But truth will out and it must be said
The Korean War caused one million dead
The total death toll for the Vietnam War
North and South, between three and four
Plus Laos and Cambodia up to two million more
So five to six million the final score...

Neutral Cambodia was for more than a year
Exposed to destruction and reduced to fear
Through massive bombings carried out secretly
In Operation Menu, conceived primarily
By Nixon, Kissinger and Haig to ease
The retreat, "peace with honour" - excuse us all please!

Nixon to Kissinger: "We must lay waste
Enemy bases and supply routes with all haste
To make withdrawal safer, I have said it before
So go ahead and do it, and I want to hear no more
Send everything that flies on anything that moves!"
The chilling conversation indisputably proves
These men are mass murdering war criminals
The evidence is clear and the story it tells
Is not nasty rumours but recorded on tape
Yet again the guilty managed to escape
Being brought to justice for their dreadful crime -
Good people despair for it happens all the time!

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During the twentieth century
Just doing what comes naturally
The US intervened militarily
Usually unilaterally
Fiftyfive times, unbelievably
In Latin America alone -
The US is undeniably prone
To asking for trouble by casting the first stone
And can then, hallelujah, legitimately moan
And hit back hard in order to "defend"
Itself and its allies to the bitter end

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Time to refresh your geography
Peruse the world map briefly with me:
How many overseas US bases do you see?
The last count revealed SEVEN HUNDRED and THREE!
A staggering figure, all ostensibly
To police the world and so keep us all free
But in truth in search of the next enemy
And when Communism failed it became Islam -
Now shut up and listen for a moment Uncle Sam
For that was your most colossal mistake
If you do not retreat it will certainly break
The US empire, for like those before
Greatness is NOT built on arrogance and war
There is nothing new under the sun
But go right ahead - bring it on!

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Re-armed by the West when his eight year war
With Iran fizzled out, Saddam wanted more
So invaded and occupied neighbouring Kuwait
As he took the time to correctly state
It used to be the nineteenth province of Iraq
So argued it was legitimate to take back
But the UN disagreed and authorised the use
Of force in the event that Saddam should refuse
To back down and withdraw, and we all know the rest:
Muslim Arabs and the Christian West
Led by America joined forces to expel
The Iraqis in a good imitation of hell:
Alarmingly, Geiger readings are today
A thousand times higher than before the USA
(Just years before the new millenium!)
With the liberal use of depleted uranium
Made sure that for generations to come
Genetic abnormalities will affect some
Of the millions of people regionally
And, as usual behaving abysmally
Tens of thousands of Saddam's fleeing ranks
Were ripped to pieces or roasted in their tanks -
Another clear case of barbarity
By the soldiers of Christianity

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Serial killers line up to salute
That born-again Christian prostitute
The commander-in-chief is on parade
Directing his very own Crusade

For out of the blue a heaven-sent excuse
Ignited the eagerly waiting fuse
Presenting the neo-Cons with the strong
Imperative for which they had so long
Openly wished and secretly prayed
So most Americans could be swayed
To support Bush and Co, and so the first raid
Soon followed for the leaders were sorely afraid
That further attacks might yet be made
Retribution just could not be delayed -

And the excuse? Those strange attacks
On America, the official report lacks
Any credibility and more than just smacks
Of a cover-up, the expert evidence now stacks
Up higher than the buildings that were pulled down
When false flag terrorism flew into town!

But patriots and other fools, eager to believe
Whatever they are told, are easy to deceive...
Look at the facts and like me you will say
Those tragic events were Made in the USA

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No credible evidence was produced
So the Taliban, quite correctly, refused
To hand anyone over to the US
Leaving the world for a while to guess
But later they did offer and suggest
Maybe as a clever sincerity test
That those named as wanted could be tried
In a third country if Sharia [Islamic law] was applied -
And the rest was silence, for year after year
America proves it is not sincere

The mass murderer later revealed
That God spoke to him and had appealed
To the all-American president
That US armed forces should be sent
To remove the Islamist Taliban
In a sovereign land called Afghanistan:
"George, get rid of those terrorists
For the good of mankind, I do insist"

And of course he complied for how could he say no
To almighty God, and the rodeo show
With the plans miraculously ready to go
Continued where the Soviet Union left off
Having wisely decided that enough is enough
In a country never yet controlled
By any outsiders, so home they rolled

Now enter America with high-tech toys
Controlled by frightened trigger-happy boys
Anything that moves it destroys
From the relative safety of fighter jets
Blowing men and women and children to bits

And the new Crusaders were not slow
To prove they are the lowest of the low
For soon a new slave trade started to grow
Innocent people grabbed as they go
About their own business, later to show
Up first in Bagram, then Guantanamo
Because the US had decided to throw
Money at the problem, hoping to blow
The Taliban's lengthening recruitment row

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And God spoke again with George Double U
And told him he must now set out to do
What the father had timidly failed to achieve
No problem for the son, for if you truly believe
You possess enough love and affinity
For that mystical Holy Trinity
And willingly do as you are told
Grateful that YOU were chosen, and behold
Soon after a holocaust began to unfold
On innocent Iraqis while the UN screamed: "NO!"
But Satan and Co were determined to go
For the US had decided years before
That the oil must be won through a quick little war
And so the coalition moved in to kill -
Another ally now dispensable!

White phosphorous provided the light for the shows
Smart weapons delivered the fatal blows
Plus depleted uranium, for anything goes
If it demonstrates might and adds to the woes
Of the conquered people, to hell with their loss
If it proves the white Christian is the boss

Rapes and massacres, invariably denied
Committed by marines, never properly tried
And a second invasion, private security
Personnel operating with immunity
So much for the promised sovereign Iraq -
It is time for Iraqis to take their country back!

The golden dome in Samarra blown up
By who-do-you-think in an effort to stop
Iraq's different factions from merging and so
Focus all energies on the common foe

Snipers picking off academics one by one
Other than helping Iraq, what have they done?
Doctors and teachers found headless in the sand
Those who remain try to flee their own land -
Is it really so hard to understand
That what is happening in Iraq today
Is a brutal attempt, in a devious way
To destroy the country in primitive rage
And revenge because it refused to engage
Fully with the plot, did not lie down
And surrender when the cowboys rode into town -
So setting it back a generation at least
While the foreign oil men continue their feast
Is the best they can hope for, the desperate plan
And as ever the predictable American
Reaction to their failures is to blame Iran!

But the underlying reason for the overall scheme
Was probably assisting the Zionist dream
Of Greater Israel, Euphrates to the Nile
And in central Baghdad in true Crusader style
A billion dollar fortress is almost complete
To protect against those they did defeat
But it will, inshallah, some better brighter day
When the Christian vultures have been driven away
Become the headquarters of al-Sadr and his men
The Mahdi Army, Islam will rule again
And five times a day will be heard, you want to bet
The call to prayer from an added minaret!

Some sources claim one million dead
Several million we know have fled
Abroad or survive as internally displaced
In their own country, and the hardships faced
By those suffering millions must be felt somehow -
Shout: "We are all Palestinians now!"

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The Soviet Union is a tragic tale
Of social engineering on such a massive scale
That most of us will simply fail
To grasp the magnitude of this open-air jail

It is difficult to choose a place to begin
The atrocities of comrades Lenin and Stalin
Are so many and enormous and went on for so long
Encompassing every conceivable wrong
With such mad fervour that your heart nearly stops
Your confidence in man certainly drops...

The revolution itself, according to archives
Claimed around thirteen million lives
From West to East and in every part
Ominously, that was just the start

Their obsession with total central control
Left no room for any individual role
As no brain was needed to understand
The rigid vertical top-down command
Every mind and thought was a threat to the state
So legitimate targets to infiltrate
Investigate, intimidate, eliminate

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To stamp out religion once and for all
They came up with a plan which must appall
Every right-thinking person, atheist or not
And (are you sitting down?) this was the plot:
Widespread famines were created at will
By destroying and confiscating harvests until
The people throughout the countryside
Were starving and millions of them died

Having already eaten your only horse or cow
Your cat and dog and your own boots - what now?
Grass and leaves and stripping trees of their bark
And if anyone thinks those choices are stark
Any other human found still alive
Could be killed and eaten so you would survive
If only for another day or maybe two
Who knows, God willing, you might yet pull through...

While those back in Moscow at Red Terror HQ
Were busy planning what next to do:
"People spending their last energy to find
Something, anything, to eat will not mind
If we demonstrate our absolute might
By blowing up every church in sight
Anyone still strong enough to protest
Just shoot them and nature will do the rest
But we hope and expect and in truth we doubt
To see any raised fingers or hear a shout -
Those are the orders, now carry them out!"

All in the sick hope that control would never slip
From their convulsive blood-soaked iron grip

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For any deviation from the path you were meant
To follow they declared you a dissident
And over the decades millions were sent
To dreadful labour camps, and the intent was clear:
They would not return - most lasted just a year

Under the half-hearted arctic midnight sun
There was no-one to turn to and nowhere to run
Winters were terrible and without end
In sixty below zero the guards would send
Them out in the dark as any other day
In a snowstorm to work, many lost their way
Others lost their minds and went insane
And disappeared, not to be seen again
Now entombed like mammoths in the frozen ground -
Will their places of peace ever be found?

With inadequate shelter, food and clothes
And brutal workdays, most of those
Living and vibrant men and women froze
To death where they stood or in their sleep
As the merciless cold would slowly creep
Through tissue and bone until so deep
They were barely breathing sculptures of ice
Cut from life - the ultimate price
Though guilty of no major crime or vice
To escape the socialist paradise...

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Mass deportations were used to quell
Any early signs that someone might rebel
Or even if nothing was known or could be proved
Whole ethnic peoples were forcibly moved
Uprooted from their land and split into groups
Freighted like animals and guarded by troops
Resettled in remote places far apart
To minimise the ever-present risk they might start
Serious activities against the state -
So divide and rule before it is too late

The Chechens in the Caucasus were some of those
And the only civilised way to close
That chapter of continuing tragedy
Once and for all is to set them free
Give them the land that is rightfully theirs
But as anyone can see: nobody cares

The implosion of the empire came to Moscow
And Yeltsin outmanoeuvred Gorbachow
He dissolved the Soviet Union late December ninetyone
And soon most republics broke away and were gone -
This was the moment they had waited for
So the Chechens launched an insurgency war
To drive out the Soviets, now Russians, stationed there
The Kremlin's response was swift and did not spare
Anyone for all Chechens were enemies now
The rebellion must be broken no matter how
So insurgents and civilians were brutally crushed
In a brief total war, and though much can be hushed
Out there in the open for the whole world to see
The ghastly bombardment of Grozny city
Was another monstrous crime against humanity

Decent people everywhere but in Europe most of all
Should now stand up together and loudly call
For a vote whether all those from Chechnya
Want full independence from Russia -
Chechen men and women, we are with you still
We have not forgotten you and never will!
Brothers and Sisters, wherever you now roam
Europe's Palestinians, you will come home!

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Now, you may ask - who am I to criticise
After all, our leaders are honourable and wise
And tirelessly do their best for those they lead
So we should respect and admire them, indeed
Is that not what everybody learns in school?
Do not be such a bloody fool!
You are just their disposable tool
POWER IS OPIUM FOR THOSE WHO RULE!

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The emblems of the Soviet state
Hammer and Sickle - how appropriate:
To beat your head into party shape!
To cut off your legs to prevent escape!

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For seventy years the colour was red
Just like all the blood being shed
Decades of madness and terror and dread
How many tens of millions dead?
If you are human shake your head
Shudder and numb with disbelief
Belatedly think of the pain and grief
Of every one who perished there -
The empty eyes of Communism stare
Without a tear and void of care
Unable and unwilling to share
Mere human reactions like despair

Heartlessness personified
Ten commandments nullified
All religion crucified
Atheism deified
Darwinism glorified
Love and goodness horrified
Normality so modified
Emotions so petrified
The soul of Russia nearly died...

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For Red China read Soviet Union Mark Two
More worst nightmares sadly coming true
For China under chairman Mao Zedong
Was the same ideology gone horribly wrong
The same psychopathic tyranny
By the same all-powerful single party
More central control carried to extremes
More enforced hopelessly unworkable schemes
More sick and twisted fantasies instead of healthy dreams

China and the Soviet Union are twins
Everybody loses, nobody wins
Probably for both the inevitable result
Of a truly deranged personality cult

The Great Leap Forward was at best running in place
Or a giant step backwards into empty space -
The Cultural Revolution was years of insane
Attempts to obliterate the past and start again
Programming everyone to behave like drones
A taste of a future nation of pure clones

All possible versions of madness were tried
And estimates of those millions that died
Range from fortyfive to seventytwo
But life is cheap so we can safely add a few
All for the glory of Charles Darwin and Karl Marx
In a futile attempt to eradicate the sparks
That exist in all of humanity:
The pursuit of individuality
The longing for spirituality

What the Soviet Union and Red China do prove
Is that not all fanatics are religious - so remove
That misleading and erroneous expression from your lists
For those communist fanatics were atheists!

Their sick ideology, enforced without shame
Was substitute religion regardless of the name

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The Muslim Uyghurs in China's North-West
Are Turkic people, different from the rest
They call that region East Turkestan
Though brutally repressed, their determined plan
Is independence, leave them free to pursue
It if they really want to - and we know they do!

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And from the roof of the world, the message we get
Can be summarised in two simple words: FREE TIBET!

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Adolf Hitler was elected in nineteen thirtythree
And historians now generally do agree
That the fire which destroyed the parliament
Soon after was a carefully planned event
By the Nazis themselves in an effort to blame
The communists - some things stay the same
The most evil cannot resist the game
Of false flag terrorism by any other name -
Remaining skeptics, to put you in the frame
Fast-forward now for it is still being done:
The World Trade Center and the Pentagon
Eleventh of September two thousand and one!

And the Nazis targeted not only the Jews
Any group deemed to be a threat or of no use
To their project of crafting a superior man
According to a meticulous master plan
Was included with the Jews on their death-lists
Gypsies, homosexuals, communists
The mentally retarded and the mentally ill
The weak and abnormal should be weeded out until
The race was pure for that was nature's will
The slogan "the survival of the fittest" which is still
Heard was used by the Nazis with great skill -
Social Darwinism was their license to kill

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And the British-American bombing raid
When the centre of Dresden was completely laid
Waste, consider the interesting fact
The industrial quarters were left intact
Germany was finished at any rate
And did a few weeks later capitulate
So there was no strategic need to go ahead
With the firestorm which left forty thousand dead -
A war crime can never be justified
But that is no comfort to all those who were fried

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And, for the record, World War One
When the surveys were completed and the counting done
No matter on whom the war could be blamed
Twenty million dead, twenty million maimed
Only half of those wore a uniform
For total war had taken Europe by storm
The major Christian nations were involved
And when it was over, nothing was resolved -

So just twenty years later, World War Two
Proved what it had become possible to do
If the forces of evil were out of control
And death and destruction the only goal
A total of seventy million died
The majority civilians who were denied
Their fundamental right to live
Surely a crime we should never forgive -
When the madness subsided and a shaky peace came
Neither Europe nor the world would ever be the same

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Saddam grabbed power in nineteen seventynine
And anyone hoping it would work out fine
Was rudely awakened, for he could not wait
And from nineteen eighty to eightyeight
Supported and armed by the Christian West
He tried everything and did his best
To defeat the Islamic Republic of Iran
Which seemed prepared to send its last man
In all between half and one million deaths
One hundred thousand Iranian last breaths
Inhaled chemicals sold to Saddam
By Western companies which knew they would do harm

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The Aboriginees in Australia
Like the Indians of North America
Pursued by white land-robbers coast to coast
Hunted all the way to extinction almost -
Another sophisticated culture subdued
By Christian barbarians who found it crude

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Whether ethnic cleansing or attempted genocide
What is not in dispute is the numbers that died
And how many were deported in nineteen fifteen
When someone decided no Armenian must be seen
In Turkey anymore - six hundred thousand dead
One and three quarter million displaced or fled

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In a reasonable attempt to accommodate
Muslim aspirations for their own state
In nineteen fortyseven British India was split
Along the lines deemed best to fit
Everybody's wishes, and when it was done
The Muslims got two states for the price of one
But on both sides of the argument that price was high
And before the dust had settled and the blood was dry
At least half a million, probably more, would die
And around fifteen million would be refugees
For the great upheaval did also release
Long simmering resentment, competition, even hate
Between Hindus and Muslims, most did not hesitate
To get moving and that autumn saw busy days
The flow of humanity streaming both ways

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From nineteen seventyfive to seventynine
Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge tried to redefine
Evil in action, and the final result
Of another deranged Marxist cult
Was not the promised Utopia but instead
One point seven million Cambodians dead...

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The African slave trade, ten million souls
Desecrated to serve the commercial goals
Of European powers for four hundred years
Imagine the terror, the blood and the tears
Snatched from your family, village, continent
Shipped across the ocean, almost all were sent
To the colonies in the New World where they slaved
Doing what their white Christian masters craved -
The injustice and arrogance words fail to express
But social Darwinism would no doubt bless!

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Already among the poorest of the poor
Ethiopia tragically had to endure
Mengistu Haile Mariam's Red Terror rule
More mad Marxists and typically cruel
Their dark legacy from the seventies survives
The nation lost one and a half million lives
During the course of the civil war
And in man-made famines about two million more

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The ongoing tragedy in Sudan's Darfur
Is not in essence about rich versus poor
And not about religion, ethnicity or race
Or who should or should not live in any given place
Or about external borders, not even about oil!
No, the problem of that parched and arid soil
Is a desperate lack of water without which nothing thrives -
Could we not send it out there in order to save lives?

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And where was the world in nineteen ninetyfour
When officially eight hundred thousand, maybe more
Were shot or hacked or burnt to death in Rwanda's civil war
Within the span of around one hundred days
Under the indecisive United Nations gaze -
Its incapacity to act never fails to amaze...

About two million fled to neighbouring states
And such an influx inevitably creates
New problems, and so the Congo became
The next holocaust, where to kill and maim
Seems everybody's right and the natural way
To express yourself, the statistics say
That five and a half million have died so far
And millions more displaced, yet there are
No serious international efforts to bring
An end to all this suffering...

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Srebrenica, Bosnia, July ninetyfive
Eight thousand Muslims last known to be alive
In a safe haven guarded by United Nations men
Were seized and led away, not to be seen again
Until years later unearthed in mass graves -
Another chilling case of how man still behaves...

And the Dutch UN soldiers, it is hard to believe
Were honoured for their efforts and later did receive
A medal each - for what we want to know!
Service to humanity? You know where you can go!
Muslims should no longer trust the UN or EU
Oh-so-civilised Christian Europe - SHAME ON YOU!

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And so inevitably we must turn
To the holocaust that continues to burn
The screaming-to-heaven ultimate sign
Of horrendous injustice: PALESTINE
Where over time every known form
Of grotesque barbarity has become the norm
Tolerated, accepted, encouraged, blest
By the leaders of the Christian West

The atrocities perpetrated here
Day in day out, year after year
For six decades now, is adequate proof
That the Christian West is not only aloof
But completely indifferent to the suffering
The creation of Israel was certain to bring
On the local population which has every right
To return where it once lived - and the fight
Will continue no matter what it entails
Until the day when justice prevails

Not one bit of progress achieved so far
Conclusive proof that in truth there are
No forces for good in action there
On the contrary, if we dare
To say that most of what Israel
Does is quite simply illegal
We are monitored, black-listed, screened, profiled
And, if we continue, ridiculed and reviled
By politicians in the Christian West
Recruited by Zionism, and the rest
Stand idly by afraid to speak
What they know to be right, for they may seek
Re-election soon, or some later day
Run for higher office, so watch what they say

But progress there will have to be
And surely we can all agree
That justice is the only key
To unlock this terrible tragedy
And finally end the misery -
Without it nothing can be done
The sixty-year holocaust will smoulder on
And as any astute observer can tell
It has the full potential
To annihilate not only Israel
But most of the rest of our world as well...

Feeling safe behind their hideous wall
And using any excuse to stall
Zionists brag as they drag their heels
While bleeding brutalised Palestine reels
From another blockade or incursion or attack -
If only we could turn the clock sixty years back!

The world MUST solve this now with all haste
Not one more minute should go to waste
For disaster is knocking on our door -
What on earth are we waiting for?
The reasons given are a sham and a scam
It is wrong and unfair to blame Islam
But it is all part of the game of cheat
Played so well by the masters of deceit

As we know the world did not hesitate
To drive Saddam's army out of Kuwait
But forty years after the Six Day War
Israel is building like never before

A question please, unanswered still:
If the use of force was permissible
To end one occupation declared illegal
Why not use it against Israel?
In a civilised world there would be no need
To ask that question at all, indeed
All Zionist settlers would long ago have been
Served notice to leave, and anyone seen
After the deadline on Palestinian land
Forcibly removed by a big and firm hand

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The above is only a selection from
The many known cases, we left out some
Which we might have included (and if so inclined
There are plenty more for you to find
In the library or on the Internet
If you see something interesting, please do let
Us know about it) but you get the point
That history is distorted through the joint
Efforts of small but influential groups
That control the money, the power, the troops
Discreetly of course, behind the scene
And dictate where and when to intervene...

Reduced to a simple numbers game
The six million figure that Zionists claim
Was achieved by Hitler looks rather tame
Compared with some of those we did name
And examined above, so why bombard
Us daily with your ultimate trump card?
When it wears out it will be hard
To replace! And your callous disregard
For the other holocausts only show
What many of us already know
But carry on and resentment will grow
And spread over time to those who are slow
To connect the dots of international affairs
Preoccupied with everyday cares
Less concerned with yours than theirs
But manipulated by terrorist scares
And if one day all hell breaks loose
Too late to run or regret or refuse
They will also have to choose
Between Zionists and decent Jews

From all these horrors now pick your choice!
Yet the shrill persistent voice
Of Zionism clamouring for still more
Special treatment, reparations for the war
Concessions and memberships is all we hear
Day in day out, year after year

Terrible yes, but in the overall text
One holocaust looks much like the next
And I promise you that not in a thousand years
Will I cry any special tears
For only the victims of that atrocity
For that would be partial complicity
In the wall of silence that is being built
Around all the others to focus our guilt
On the Nazi persecution of the Jews -
More than sixty years later, still daily news!

With Jewish credibility here at stake
You holocaust merchants, give us a break
The one you are obsessed with is far from unique
Many of us suffer from holocaust fatigue
And no matter what you do or say
We support Jerusalem not Holocaust Day!
Understand it if you can
Man's inhumanity to man
Much of it authorised by the Vatican
No doubt spurred on by old Satan!
Animals surely behave much better than
Most of us - let us now spare a thought
For every single person caught
Innocently in the infernos caused
By the evil people who never paused
To reflect on the absolute sanctity
Of each life in all humanity
For every life lost is a human being gone -
But do all the other holocausts interest anyone?

And a final question for all of you:
IS THIS REALLY THE BEST WE CAN DO?
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Copyright © 2008 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved

The War on Terror

- has completely failed!

Written early September 2007 - (242 lines)

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"God bless America - the mother of the free!
We believe in freedom and democracy!"
How many times have we heard that before?
Now read my AXIS of EVIL for more!

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The War on Terror is a complete fake
And with the safety of us all at stake
I ask no permission now to take
The word, for I need to verbally shake
My fist in anger, my head in disbelief
At the daily news of undiluted grief
Caused by the US commander-in-chief
The planet's undisputed number one thief
Of lives, peace, oil, security
Other crimes fade into obscurity
Compared with those of one evil man
And his evil helpers, those proud American
Arch neo-Cons and ultra Zionists -
Read: criminals, murderers and terrorists!

He was not even elected properly
Back in two thousand, we remember vividly
The antics, fraud and cheating that went on
Without that he clearly would not have won
And our world would have been spared his eight
Years of terror, but they refused to wait
Another four years for they had a plan
The Project for the New American
Century - to be inaugurated NOW!
Hell-bent on showing the whole world how:

It would be so much easier to implement
If they first could generate public consent
So they thought long and hard with evil intent
About a catastrophic catalysing event
"Like a new Pearl Harbor" for which they longed
Openly and shamelessly - and their many-pronged
Attack on America came shortly afterwards
Catching most observers off-guard

For my thoughts on what happened that day
Read my poem Made in the USA

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Based on their evil mass deception scheme
Bush and his neo-Con-Zionist team
Hiding behind the patriotic scream
For revenge were quick to activate their dream
And claiming to be seriously looking for
Osama bin Laden broke down the front door
Of a sovereign nation called Afghanistan
Soon leading to the ouster of the ruling Taliban
Who left in an organised tactical retreat
The "coalition of the willing" did not defeat
Them then and inshallah never will
The tough mountain people will continue to kill
The new Crusaders until they withdraw
Like the Soviets before them - the raw
Reality is bound to dawn on them some day
Thank God it is impossible for them to stay
Forever, and the proud and fierce locals know
The faster they kill them the sooner they will go!

After six years occupation it is a mystery
Why opium is the only growth industry:
All but eradicated by two-thousand-and-one
By the Taliban's harsh methods, it has now gone
To levels way beyond anything seen before
The only thing we know is that next year will be more -
What a wonderful achievement for the Crusader team
Was that also a part of The New World Order dream?
May all of the quality considered the best
End up on the streets of the cities in the West!

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Iraq is a broken country today
And I do not care what the experts say -
Remember that common American phrase:
You break it - you fix it! Except in this case
The idiots who could not resist the next phase
Of their neo-colonial plan to control
The Middle East have no positive role
To play whatever may happen next -
Their stupid slogans and obsolete text
Are just as irrelevant and worthless now
As when their war-machine started to plough
Through national borders and international law
In defiance of civilised opinion which saw
The real danger that unilateral
Action might become acceptable
As means to an end in years to come -
Reserved of course only for some!

You break it - you own it! Heaven forbid!
If American might cannot keep a lid
On Iraq then what superpower is this?
Whilst I do not believe that many truly miss
The "good old days" of Saddam Hussein
It is worth repeating again and again
That during his rule the vast majority
Had national pride and stability
Schools, jobs and security
Running water and electricity
Regardless of sect or ethnicity

"Bring 'em on!" that well-known mass murderer said
One more situation disastrously misread:
The insurgents decided to go right ahead!
The war criminal could have scaled back but instead
Ordered a surge which has only led
To more destruction and brutal bloodshed
And that will only get worse and spread
Until the day that you secretly dread
When no longer even the tiniest shred
Of hope hanging by the thinnest thread
Of purpose remains in the hell you fed
With living human beings that you misled
When your state-terrorist-soldiers have bled
Have been killed, driven out or have simply fled -
More body bags please! Keep counting your dead!

Brutalised Iraq will stagger on
Until some internal deal is done
Or, more likely, full-scale civil war
Consumes the country like never before
Maybe Iraq will split into three -
What would that do for stability
Of the whole region? We dread to think -
This could yet take us to the brink

But assistance may be near at hand
In a larger neighbouring friendly land!
Could the fools in Washington not understand
That any intervention in Iraq, once the sand
Had settled, would mainly benefit Iran?

It was always obvious that would be the case
All that remains is to ruthlessly chase
Those stupid illegal Americans out
And the Iraq-Iran friendship will sprout
Like a seed planted in the desert enjoys
The rain after the summer destroys
And scorches everything on the ground -
Better days surely will come round

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The War on Terror is against the law!
The Coalition of the Killing must withdraw
Right now from Iraq and Afghanistan
Everybody out, to the very last man!

America still refuses to show
The world what goes on in Guantanamo
Holding so many for years without charge
While the terrorists who grabbed them are all at large!

Legally untenable and a hideous affront
To civilised behaviour, the world must confront
This evil manifestation of the new USA
Bluntly tell the president: "Close it today!
Or there will be consequences, ask for the list!
Your behaviour is worse than that of a terrorist!"

Totally innocent but seized to be sold
For personal gain, the new slave-traders told
The world about it so assume it is a fact -
Has nobody got the courage to act?

Re-labelled "dangerous enemy combatant"
Proud of the most barbaric and flagrant
Abuse of the most basic human rights
The Great Satan unilaterally rewrites
What is acceptable and what is not -
Indefinite detention, left to rot

The detainees may not know where they are
Moved around frequently, today maybe far
From yesterday's location which was - where?
At a moment's notice without time to prepare
On an extraordinary rendition flight
Blindfolded so it could be day or night
They will fly them at their time and pace
To a secret prison in an unknown place
In a country coerced to co-operate
With America's Crusade of mindless hate
Of Islam and Muslims, but we have news for you:
Honest to Allah - WE HATE YOU TOO!

And where was the international uproar
When like pirates you were lying offshore
Somalia launching missile attacks
Because the Muslim population backs
Islamists to sort out the nation's mess -
If I were a local who do you guess
I would prefer to take control?
Not you morons who steamroll
Over noble conventions and human rights
I would support the faction which fights
For self-determination and so to be free
Of America's so-called liberty!

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The War on Terror is a complete mess!
Many governments are under duress
To comply with America so they repress
Their own good people and in the process
Are busy building up an explosive stress -
A tragic situation for all but I guess
That is what Americans call progress!

Of course America leaves you free to express
Whatever you want - so long as you say YES!

Your sinister meddling is on the rise
Forever peddling your obscene lies!
Freedom and democracy you cannot even spell!
And as for spreading them everywhere, well
Just look at the dictators you sponsor and support
We should make a list of them for memories are short!
America is only ever out for number one
And the worldwide damage that is being done
By those three hundred million, just five percent
Of humanity, is horrendous, high time we sent
Them back where they came from, we should not bluff:
The civilised world has had enough!

This world also belongs to me
And today I am less secure and less free
As a direct result of your Crusade
Against Islam and Muslims whom you made
Pay the price for your incompetence
Ignorance and arrogance

Nobody feels truly safe anymore
It was not at all like this before
You unleashed your monster on us all
May your brutal adventures lead to the fall
Of America the superpower, and soon
Deflate your stupid Mickey Mouse balloon!

And if I ruled the world I would sign a decree
Requiring you Americans to immediately
Return to the US where you would stay
Until you behave in an acceptable way:
Twenty years at least before a review!
You had your golden chance - which you blew!

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The War on Terror has completely failed:

The grand strategy initially hailed
As the cure for all problems with its detailed
Approach and wide scope lies derailed
Time has passed and blood is trailed

Civil liberties have been assailed
Revoked or seriously curtailed
All part of what the plan entailed

International relations blackmailed
The corpse of diplomacy impaled
Without a trial and brutally nailed
To the Cross where fainting hope has paled

The heights of folly successfully scaled
Insanity and injustice prevailed
A total failure proudly unveiled
The architechts should now be tried and jailed!

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So much for freedom and human rights!
We should salute anyone who fights
Such a cruel and backward nation to free
Us from its obnoxius tyranny!

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The pathological killer lurks
We know his habits and little quirks
His over-reactions are knee-jerk
And before that lunatic goes berserk
On Iran, try impeachment - it really does work!

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Copyright © 2007 - IBRAHEEM (O.E.H.Johansen) - All Rights Reserved