Posted by CODEPINK Staff
By HP Charman MD.
A fearless little CodePink lady upstaged your counter terrorism speech
And challenged every point you were trying to preach
“You can close Guantánamo today”
But you won’t for your critics hold you at bay
Those innocents held without charges for years
Surely harbor justified feelings of revenge and you fear
One of them implicated in a future attack
Would permit your critics to put a knife in your back
And make the tragic ludicrous Benghazi perseveration
A romp in the park in comparison
And while you have justified killing with flowery rhetoric befitting our times
Medea constantly reminds you of your inescapable war crimes
For there is nothing precise about a drone attack
And the innocents killed represent a mark most black
On your soul that in the long run make us less safe for sure
As you are creating enemies by the score
And what about Abdulrahman Al-Alawki the 16 year old
Citizen you killed… And the truth about which you have not told
For what you are doing is giving yourself the right
To judge, to sentence and to kill with a drone on site
She urged you to end now the signature strikes with their
Tortured circular logic that equates age, sex and activity with terror
For with this definition your conscience is assuaged since by definition
Anyone killed is a terrorist and you require no contrition
So Mr. Pres. Nobel prize-winning assassin I contend
You have been confronted by a force of wisdom
You thought she had not been listening that you had not been heard
But the fact of the matter is she hung on each and every one of your words
And what she did not hear was you coming out with policies new
That would redeem you as a speaker of truth
Instead she heard your politically expedient blame
Justifying your actions and inactions in a manner most lame
No Mr. Pres. Nothing you said I think
Could begin to compare with the courageous lady from Code Pink
Listen Mr. Pres. She is showing you a path to salvation.
Close your ears and you’re headed for damnation
