NEW WORDS FROM BUSH'S DICK

Dick Cheney:

 Mr. President, I’ve come up with some new words for our occupation of Iraq.

George W. Bush:

 Good. What are they?

Dick Cheney:

The timeline horizon.

George W. Bush:

The time-lying what?

Dick Cheney: TIMELINE HORIZON.

George W. Bush: Sounds like a movie.

Dick Cheney:

Yes, sir. That’s the whole idea. It will make the American people believe that Iraq is just a bad movie with a good title.

George W. Bush:

Right. I’m going to see that movie again.

Dick Cheney: I have some other words that I think will help out, too.

George W. Bush:

Fire away! No, don’t do that. Just tell me what they are.

Dick Cheney:

Aspirational goals.

George W. Bush:

 What kind of goals?

Dick Cheney:

 ASPIRATIONAL.

George W. Bush:

 Goals that breathe and sweat?

Dick Cheney: I like to think of them as goals that breathe.

George W. Bush:

Right. I don’t like to sweat.

Dick Cheney:

 Alright, I’ll let you go. I’ve got to clean my shotgun before I go do some hunting.

George W. Bush:

 Be careful. Keep your eyes peeled for those lawyers in the bushes.

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[The lines below are from a poem by Robert Creeley titled Help!]

Help's easy enough
If it comes in time.
Nothing's that hard
If you want to rhyme.

 

It's when they shoot you
It can hurt,
When the bombs blast off
And you're gone with a squirt.

 

Sitting in a bunker,
Feeling blue?
Don't be a loser
It wasn't you---

 

Wasn't you wanted
To go kill people,
Wasn't you caused
All this trouble.

 

I can't say, Run!
And I can't say, Hide!
But I still feel
What I feel inside.

It's wrong to kill people
Just to make them pay
Wrong to blast cities
To make them go

away.

You think that anyone
Ought to get pushed,
Shoved around
for some old Bush?

 

IT’S THE OIL STUPID!