Saturday, November 22, 2003

Iraq War: Life Imitates Satire

In the summer of 2002, I wrote a parody on the Kate Campbell online discussion group, to the tune of Jimmie Driftwood's "The Battle of New Orleans," a tribute to the military victory of Andy Jackson in that battle.

My version was a tribute to my man Rummy, and the chorus went like this:

Well, they fired their guns and ole Rummy kep' a'goin'
Wudn't any way he's gonna let Osama go
Held a press conference, said he was only funnin'
We didn't really care about gittin' him no mo'

Then on Friday, we get this:

<< A senior U.S. general said on Friday that al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden  had "taken himself out of the picture" and that his capture was not essential to winning the "war on terror."

<< General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at U.S. military headquarters just north of Kabul that the 11,500-strong U.S.-led force hunting al Qaeda and Taliban militants was not focusing on individuals.

<< "He (bin Laden) has taken himself out of the picture," Pace told reporters after visiting U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan.

<< "It is not an individual that is as important as is the ongoing campaign of the coalition against terrorists," he said. >>

Life imitates satire. Or maybe it's just that Rummy is a satire.


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