I sure hope I’m wrong about this, but it looks like we’re in for a long bloody haul that will only result in a lot more hatred toward our nation and make our country a lot less safe from terrorists. Nice work, George. Sue McGilpin encapsulated the situation best. For that, she gets a $40 certificate to Ralli’s and two passes to the Guild Cinema.
Winner
Perennial lies
Spiral from the highest branch.
Deciduous Bush.
— Sue McGilpin
Honorable Mention
To fight about what
Half wants to happen and half
Do not; it’s called war
— Lauren Henn (sixth grader, Sandia Prep)
Children’s corpses rot
In calculated rubble.
No child left behind?
— Sue McGilpin
Waging war for oil:
Making the rich get richer
While the poor get killed.
— Tommi Lin Tejeda
We lied to invade,
Now we are stuck in Iraq!
Will we lie to leave?
— Erica Kretzmann
Bombed cemetery
Near Mosul: churning the bones
Of murdered infants
— Ron Reed
Wreck Iraq for fun.
Like the father, like the son
Buy oil and sell guns.
— Steve Bishop
