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Read this poem if you are NOT a Racist, an Islamophobe, a Bigot or a Colonizer.

The Business of Burying is Booming

This ode is Daddy
-cated to NATO, our Unified Protector.

1949 to the Present, Daddy
is busy keeping ‘the Russians
OUT, the Americans
IN, and the Germans
DOWN’.
The OUT changes
The DOWN changes
But the IN stays the same, and
The IN stays the same, and the IN
Stays the same. The same,
Daddy-O?
Once and for all:
America brings Dear
-Daddy Democracy and Pretty
-Pink Progress to the
Backward
-Third World (People).

NATO’s first progress: Vietnam war
4,257,282 civil, mostly Vietnamese
2,447,087 military, mostly Vietnamese
I won’t count
the dead of Kosovo or Yugoslav
Wars, Iraq Wars, Afghan
Wars or Pakistan Wars.
I’ll go
To NATO’s latest progress: Capture
and kill Gaddafi. Only six (includes my Heartbreak
Harperized Canada) of the
28 countries
in support, still 9,500 strikes.
And wow, how
(in Vietnam Bosnia Yoguslavia Kosovo) how the
Business of
Burying is
Booming.

Daddy my Sharp Guard Super
Man Hero, spends 70% of
world’s defence budget,
owns the most
of all the weapons of
mass destruction, with ‘possible first
use of tactical nuclear weapons’.
Daddy got navy warships, global
hawk surveillance drones, maritime
patrol aircraft, medium-range nuclear
missiles, radar and interceptor missiles
helicopters, ships, submarines, with
‘No reductions
foreseen in
NATO’s nuclear
arsenal’
And see how
(in Vietnam Bosnia Yoguslavia Kosovo
Iraq Afghanistan Pakistan) how the
Business of
Burying is
Booming.

Daddy has this huge (oops)
video game
collection, and
You are a part of Daddy’s
games. So am I, check
again, Daddy’s heroic adventures and quests:
Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Ocean Shield, Training Mission – Iraq, Operation Eagle Assist, Active Underwear, Operation Essential Harvest, Deny Flight Operation, Deliberate Force, Operation Joint Endeavor
There’s more, including ISAF-KFOR-IFOR
-SFOR-ACE-ALTHEA, but no more
space on this page
‘cause I am going to
count those
still-
-alive
to see how
(in Vietnam Bosnia Yoguslavia Kosovo
Iraq Afghanistan Pakistan
Egypt Lybia Syria) how the
Business of
Burying is
Booming.

To ward off Daddy’s colonial jok:
My mantra, a bit long
a little tedius
like all mantras.
It will work,
like all mantras.
‘In Your Name, the People of:
Albania (2,834,667), Belgium (10,827,519), Bulgaria (7,351,234),
Canada (34,447,000), Croatia (4,425,747), Czech
Republic (10,515,818);
‘In The Name Of:
5,560,628 Danes, 1,340,122 Estonians, 65,821,885 French
81,802,000 Germans, 11,306,183 Greeks,
10,014,324 Hungarians, 318,452 Icelanders, 60,605,053 Italians;
‘In Your Name, the People of:
Latvia: 2,229,500, Lithuania: 3,249,400, Luxembourg: 502,100, Netherlands: 16,667,700, Norway: 4,937,900, Poland: 38,092,000, Portugal: 10,636,888, Romania: 21,466,174, Slovakia: 5,435,273, Slovenia: 2,046,510, Spain: 46,148,605, Turkey 73,722,988;
‘In The Name Of:
62,008,048 Britishers and 311,328,000 Americans!
All together = 906,002,051 (White majority) people
(i am included even when Brown)
‘In Whose Name, In
My Name, In
Your Name, In
Our Name, In
My name, In
Your Name
this
Business of
Burying is
Booming!’

NATO: 28 member countries, two in North America (Canada and the United States) and 25 in Europe while Turkey is in Eurasia. NATO missions have taken place in countries located in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Remembering deaths of Palestinian people, and others, not mentioned here.

( i wrote this as a poem to snare the genre. F)
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Maya405 7 Dec 3
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NATO, under American leadership, has made too many damnable mistakes. But,. it has also done good. In the late 1940s and 1950s, the USSR threatened to sweep through all of Europe and form a huge communist tyranny. NATO, including the US prevented that.

I was in Berlin in 1950-62 when Kruschev threated often to attack Berlin and take it over. I was there when the Berlin Wall was built. I saw -- first hand -- the plight of the East German people under Russian domination. The streets of East Berlin were full of East German and Russian soldiers armed with submachine guns. He one smiled. No one talked on the streets. The air hung heavy almost complete oppression. NATO kept the same from happening in West Berlin and the rest of western Europe.

We need to control our institutions and acknowledge their mistakes. But, we must also thank those institutions for their successes.

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Your point could have been made with fewer words and then would be better understood.

I agree, it could have.
But i chose to give it more focus, it was/is important to me to do that in the constant stream of misconceptions about the nature and processes of colonial aggression.

If your intent is to bring focus to the many it must be stated in the simplest form or it is wasted on those (masses) that do not understand but are needed to make a difference.

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Hello!

Anyone who's not a racist, islamophobe, bigot or a colonizer?

Well, I do my best, but I do have worries & concerns, mostly over Islam. I consider the religion as a whole, both major "sects", as a clear & present danger to the rest of the world. I don't believe it is a religion of peace, any more than Christianity was for centuries, & may be again in this country & areas of Europe that are trending nationalist/"populist". (& somewhat in response to the Islamic threat, real & perceived, tho I think it was coming anyway.)

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