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I will end this article with two poems I wrote together with Yahya who recited them together with Zak at Tucson Obamafest:

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Yesterday, we were blinded in a holy smoke

We elected Republicans who are pros to provoke

We trusted snakes, oilmen, merchants of arms

Faith-healers, war-mongers with cunning charms

Today, we inherit an economy worse than hurricane

The culprits now have the audacity to prop up McCane

Today, we are hated abroad, looming disasters are big

Yet, they wave a plain lipstick to fool us with an old rig

Senator who cannot count the fancy houses he owns

Wants us to believe that he understands Janes and Jones

He is tough, he sings "bomb, bomb, bomb;" he is a hero!

He will wage seven wars with a budget far below zero

Today we are going to choose our tomorrow!

No more plunder, no more wars on the borrow!

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EDIP YUKSEL, J.D. is a progressive American-Turkish-Kurdish author/philosopher/lawyer/activist (too many hyphens and slashes, I know). His recent English books "Quran: a Reformist Translation", and "Manifesto for Islamic Reform" are available at (more...)
 

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