THE SOLILOQUY OF
GEORGE BUSH ON 1/15/91
(Written on 1/15/91, the deadline date given
to Saddam to withdraw from
Kuwait, the day after the US Senate
approved the military action against
Iraq, after a rather heated debate in
the US Senate. According to some
reporters who caught a glimpse of George
Bush on that day, he appeared
very sad and deep in thought.)
Kuwait or not Kuwait--that
is the question:
To let it fall under
this beast Saddam
And then to wait
in queue to fill the tank with gas
And pay so dearly
for it when he decides
To drop production
and to jack up the price...
Or to take arms
against this savage beast,
Perchance to nuke
him and restore Kuwait
To what it used
to be before the invasion--
Our friend and our
economic partner
And a supplier of
oil to our allies...
In times of peace
prepare for war--
That's what our
founding father
And our first president
George Washington
Said is the best
way to preserve the peace...
So we prepared for
war: ay, there's the rub--
Being well prepared
for war it is not easy,
To start it not
when being provoked and teased
As we are now provoked
and teased by Sad'dam... (stress by George Bush)
What did go wrong?
Oh, why did not we try
To teach them physics
(that according to Dick Feynman
Of modern human
culture is the essence),
So they would realize
that hell and heaven
Do not exist and
that you live but once,
And when you die--that's
it, the curtain, so
They'd try to live
in a more rational way
Instead of counting
on paradise
After having their
heads shot off
Or being ripped
apart by an explosion,
Baked in a fire
storm or cooked by radiation...
Oh God, why did
we take so much advantage
Of cheapness of
their oil instead of helping them
Get civilized, get
taste of our consumer goods?
They would become
corrupt and feeble-brained,
Their minds controlled
by our TV commercials,
So they would loose
their zeal and they would itch
For 'fight no more,
but only they would itch
To go to shopping
malls and supermarkets and spend,
And they would only
worship Healthy Economy and Gold...
But now it is too
late to educate or to subvert them...
Oh, damnation! We
will have to fight
This stupid brutal
war, swim in our blood, (a threat of Saddam)
It will be Hell
on Earth we brought upon ourselves...
--Michael Livshits