Rant.

this poem from a comment to an Observer article, by a poster styling themself as ''sbsmith'', October 22, 2006 04:41 AM.

Thought it was good, so am reproducing it here.

Liars you lied in word, in deed, & by omission:
you blamed Saddam for things that you had done & failed to do - the Shia insurrection,incited, left to founder – ‘sorry son!’with VX, sarin, stuff for nuclear fission -you armed him, supplied anthrax by the ton,you egged him on to fight Iran, then ditched him...& now you cannot find the smoking gun? too long past their use-by-date. ‘oh? fine!’(don’t bother to say sorry: just resign.) you lied about ‘eviction’ of inspectorsw whom the UN ‘withdrew’ - you wanna bet?phials, anti-poison-gas injectors,antidotes to dangers to be met,& posters: how to cope with radiationwere hailed as ‘proof of clear & present threat.’duty-bound to free a captive nation?(ever think of rescuing Tibet?)oh. it’s unfair to hold you to that line...don’t bother to say sorry: just resign. there’s some bad bastards, but it’s no use fretting -ex-Soviets Belarus & Kazakhstan.our ‘hatred of dictators’ could not threaten Suharto, Burma, Saudi, Pakistan.adjust the odds, it makes for safer betting; where standards are too high, let down the bar.For Chile we strained the rules, left Pinochet in;Somoza, Marcos, Franco, Salazar,we backed; who claimed their right to rule divine,& never did say sorry, nor resign.Afghanistan: ‘we’ll never walk away!’you left them unexploded cluster bombs like food parcels - they go off every day! -to add to 20 million Russian mines.& all the billions that you said you’d pay keeps war lords ruling as in former times.the bulk of it is mis-spent, gone astray,they don’t add up, the economic sums.‘damage limitation?’ not this time.don’t bother to say sorry: just resign.you lied about the poison factories; lied about their nuclear capacity;on links to Al Qaida came a freeze -‘Bush yes, Blair no (gulp gulp)’; it took audacity...‘45 minute standby’ - there’s a wheeze -‘imminent threat!’ in coping with this facet we might have bypassed other forgeries -‘uranium from Niger?’ sheer mendacity!you’ve been found out, you’ve overstayed your time,so do what Denis Healy said: resign you lied. you said it wasn’t about oil. you bellowed this until your face turned blue.& yet, available to any literate child: what Goldstein said to Bush’s cronies (whom,cringe-making, blatant, we will not imbroil)‘after the war the inverse will be true.’I quote the Wall Street Journal - your blood boil? mine does. we all could read it! so could you. maybe you did; it chanced to slip your mind? don’t even promise. do it now. resign.