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February 26, 2014
By aghaeik BRONZE, West Orange, New Jersey
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A bloody knife in a Baghdad Street
Barren and dry, the land was beat.
With the sands of time
And the destruction of war
Prosperous was this great city no more.
Why had it happened?
Who was to blame?
Not who, but the greed in our nation's name.

© Taylor M., Pelham, AL

The author's comments:
This piece is written in lieu of the recent Iraq War which spanned 8 years and completely devastated the country in which it was fought. Although causes of the war were attributed largely to the war on terror and primarily the suspicion of Nuclear Weapons in the possession of Saddam Hussein, there is a strong and legitimate belief that the war was waged rather to secure Western oil interests by exploiting purposefully incited politically instability in perhaps the most economically "desired" part of the world.
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