Background

What follows, or through the weird timing of blog posts, what precedes, is a poem I wrote in January 2003, about two months before the invasion of Iraq.

The alarming title was inspired by the artist Barbara Kruger.

In the years since it was written, it has been very interesting to compare it to the times.

Although it is wrong in several details, the general picture presented here is alarmingly true, although events have unfolded much more slowly than they are portrayed.