BS: Saddam and Bush meet Seuss

Subject: BS: Saddam and Bush meet Seuss
From: Haruo
Date: 22 Mar 03 - 07:45 PM

An Esperantist friend of mine just forwarded me this little parody, culled from some pagan mailing list I take it, which if set to the tune from the Seuss musical might even count as a music topic ;-) ...

Subject: [bapagan] Fwd: humorous Saddam/Bush Poem
To: Joel Brozovsky

> > (Last month, Iraq delivered to the United Nations a
> > 12,000-page report denying it had weapons of mass
> > destruction. Knowing President Bush does not have the
> > attention span to read 12,000 pages, the Iraqis also
> > provided an executive summary written in the style of
> > the president's favorite author, Dr. Seuss. I have
> > obtained a copy of this document from an anonymous
> > source deep inside Vice President Dick Cheney's secret
> > hideout. The complete text follows):
> >
> > I am Saddam.
> > Saddam I am.
> > I am the ruler of Iraq,
> > The country that you would attack.
> > You are Bush.
> > Bush you are.
> > The fame of you has spread afar.
> > You do not like me, Bush, I know.
> > You would not like me in a show.
> > You would not like me in the snow.
> > You simply wish that I would go.
> > You say I used to slaughter Kurds.
> > You say that I use naughty words.
> > You say I have an evil stash
> > Of weapons of destruction (mass),
> > Of bombs and missiles, germs and gas.
> > You say I tried to kill your Pop.
> > Oh, how I wish that you would stop!
> > I promise you I have no stash
> > Of weapons of destruction (mass).
> > I do not have them near or far.
> > I did not hide them in my car.
> > I did not hide them in a bar.
> > I did not hide them in a hole.
> > I did not hide them up a pole.
> > I did not hide them in a grave.
> > I did not hide them in a cave.
> > I did not hide them in a dish.
> > I did not hide them in a knish.
> > I did not hide them in my coat.
> > I did not hide them in a goat.
> > I did not hide them in a trunk.
> > I did not hide them in my bunk.
> > I did not hide them anywhere.
> > In short, they simply are not there.
> > The inspectors came and looked,
> > And looked, and looked, and looked, and looked.
> > They looked high and they looked low,
> > Every place that they could go.
> > They looked in every hole and crack,
> > Each drawer and closet, bag and sack.
> > They found nothing in a trunk-or
> > Even in my private bunker.
> > They did not find a single stash
> > Of weapons of destruction (mass) ...
> > And STILL you won't get off my a**!
> > I've done all that I can do.
> > The rest, dear Bush, is up to you.
> > Please don't be angry, don't be sore.
> > We don't need to have a war.
> > Let's go back to the good old days
> > When your dad and Reagan sang my praise.
> > I was your faithful ally then.
> > Why can't we be friends again?
> > I say, let's let this whole thing drop.
> > (My best regards to your dear Pop.)

Subject: RE: BS: Saddam and Bush meet Seuss
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Mar 03 - 08:34 PM

Apparently Bush didn't get thougt the condensed summary either. Gotta keep it under 20 words or he just kind of, ahhhh, wanders off. Maybe he'll end up sharing a room with Ronnie before it all over...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Saddam and Bush meet Seuss
From: Felipa
Date: 23 Mar 03 - 04:52 PM

Have you seen the longer Grinch poem based on Seuss?