image: US soldiers attend a memorial service for a fallen comrade in Iraq. Bronze busts of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are starting to appear in towns and villages across the United States where the mounting toll is becoming increasingly unpopular.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)
Cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, and European Tribune.
Today’s poem is in anticipation of FratBoy’s speech – image and poem below the fold
Buffalo Bill’s
by e. e. cummings
Buffalo Bill’s
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death
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support the Iraqi people
support the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
support CARE
support the victims of torture
support the fallen
support the troops
support the troops and the Iraqi people
read `This is what John Kerry did today,’ the diary by lawnorder that prompted this series
read Riverbend’s blog – `Bagdhad Burning’
read Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches
read Today in Iraq
witness every day
