this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war
we love and support our troops, just as we love and support the Iraqi people – without exception, or precondition, or judgment
we have no sympathy for the devil
image and poem below the fold
Shi’ite residents display a mock body symbolising the people who were killed during the regime of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad November 5, 2006. Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government said Saddam Hussein had got what he deserved when an Iraqi court sentenced him to hang, but a senior Sunni Arab member of parliament dismissed Sunday’s verdict as political.
REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish (IRAQ)
Temptation
by Tom Waits
Rusted brandy in a diamond glass
everything is made from dreams
time is made from honey slow and sweet
only the fools know what it means
temptation, temptation, temptation
oh, temptation, temptation, I can’t resist
I know that she is made of smoke
but I’ve lost my way
she knows that I am broke
so that I must pay
temptation, temptation, temptation
oh, whoa, temptation, temptation, I can’t resist
Dutch pink and Italian blue
she is waiting there for you
my will has disappeared
now my confusions oh so clear
temptation, temptation, temptation
whoa, whoa, temptation, temptation
I can’t resist
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