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kimbutgar

(23,777 posts) Sat Jan 11, 2025, 03:35 PM Yesterday

I know this has been posted before on DU about right now we need these words again

Pity the nation...
BY LAWRANCE. FERLINGHETTI (2007)

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
and whose bigots haunt the airways
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
but aims to rule the world
by force and by torture
And knows
No other language but its own
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed
Pity the nation Oh pity the people of my country
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!

(Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems https://amzn.to/47I4piF)

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I know this has been posted before on DU about right now we need these words again (Original Post) kimbutgar Yesterday OP

... CousinIT Yesterday #1

2007, alluding to GW Bush the War Criminal Martin Eden 10 hrs ago #2

CousinIT

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Sat Jan 11, 2025, 04:23 PM

Yesterday

Martin Eden

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2. 2007, alluding to GW Bush the War Criminal

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Sun Jan 12, 2025, 06:18 AM

10 hrs ago

In the wake of 9/11 he manipulated the grief, anger, fear, and patriotism of the American people with a coordinated campaign of LIES to launch an invasion of an oil-rich country that had nothing to do with the attack on our country and did NOT have weapons of mass destruction.

It was the most egregious betrayal of public trust by a president in our nation's history.

Seems like small potatoes now, compared to the orange monster who will sit on the throne a week from tomorrow.

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