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2004-07-27 Iraq-Jordan
Report: Saddam Writing Poetry in Prison
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Posted by Zenster 2004-07-27 12:00:00 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 we are start 2 days em poets?

here i in sit...


hmmmm. pomez in hard. ima think on this.
Posted by muck4doo 2004-07-27 12:27:42 AM|| [http://www.meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2004-07-27 12:27:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Might want a separate category for haiku.

Roses might be red
Autumn's violets are blue
Saddam bites it too
Posted by Zenster 2004-07-27 12:32:47 AM||   2004-07-27 12:32:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Once I was a tyrant that did many in
I have a heart of frozen helium
I made a lot of foes with all my sin
And used a lot of movie stars so dumb
I hated Kurds and tried to wipe them out
I let Uday kill women just for fun
Now I am doomed to die without a doubt
Regrets? Man, I sure have a metric ton!
I wish I'd taken Bush more seriously
I wish that I'd not had a granite heart
I wish I had not made such enemies
My soul shall soon flee body like a dart
And many will be dancing on my grave
While I roast in torments I myself made
Posted by Korora  2004-07-27 12:34:11 AM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com]  2004-07-27 12:34:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The glory disappeared
Craven lust for power failed
Twisting on the rope
Posted by Steve White  2004-07-27 12:37:38 AM||   2004-07-27 12:37:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmmm. So far, I vote for mucky...
(But I'm rooting for Steves to come true.)
Posted by PBMcL 2004-07-27 12:55:15 AM||   2004-07-27 12:55:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Allah is great
And I am in jail
For trial I wait
No Ba'athists, no bail
Posted by Seafarious  2004-07-27 1:43:53 AM||   2004-07-27 1:43:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 
There once was a man from Tikrit...
Er, you guys finish it.
Posted by someone 2004-07-27 4:11:04 AM||   2004-07-27 4:11:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I like coffee.
I like tea.
And why, just because I'm a murderous, Kurd gassing, Iran and Kuwait invading, WMD shuffling, Oil-for-Palaces organizing, Abu Nidal and Al Qaeda supporting, Bounty for Suicide Bombing providing, Marsh draining, Mass Grave digging, and Oil Well torching thug,
Does the Coalition have it in for me?
Posted by Adriane 2004-07-27 5:48:27 AM||   2004-07-27 5:48:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I was the great dictator, I ruled all that I see
I made all kinds of money selling oil through OFP
France helped me at the UN, but then came the Marines
They snuffed Uday, I had to run away
I had to dig like a mole in a spider hole
But still they captured me

(Apologies to Billy Joel.)
Posted by Mike  2004-07-27 7:01:02 AM||   2004-07-27 7:01:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 somebody say hiakoo?

how many syllables is draw and quartered?
Posted by Half 2004-07-27 8:53:08 AM||   2004-07-27 8:53:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 There once was a tyrant, Saddam,
Who wanted a nuclear bomb.
Though Chiraq had his back,
George Bush still attacked
Now Saddam and his regime are gone!
Posted by Mike  2004-07-27 9:45:25 AM||   2004-07-27 9:45:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Here I sit,
brokenhearted.
Scared to shit;
trial just started.
Posted by Spot  2004-07-27 10:43:34 AM||   2004-07-27 10:43:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Roses are red,
Camels sometimes spit.
Why do I get a necktie party,
When I haven’t done shit?

My people still love me,
George Dubya is a poop,
The saltpeter they feed me
Is causing junior to droop.

The giant plastic shredders,
the containers of sarin,
make for a mighty fine day,
to take my enemies on a spin.

But my people will always love me,
It MUST remain this way!
Until my corpse is dried up,
And all blown away.
Posted by Bodyguard  2004-07-27 11:12:07 AM||   2004-07-27 11:12:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 And here's another one I wrote sitting at firebase Camelot watching the oil well fires one night after Desert Storm, inspired by Blue Oyster Cult:

Strange fires light up the night,
Have you aer’ seen such a mystical sight?
Don’t ask if they are real.
The men in cloth, their lips are sealed.

I turn my head up to the sky,
I’d like to know before I die,
If memories will surely fade,
Desert winds, can you take it away?

Mass destruction means nothing to me,
From the tyrant the small one is free.
I’ve seen death upon the sand,
Wrath of decay from the insane ones hand.

Impoverished souls overcome with despair,
One mans’ dream is another’s nightmare.
A country’s life is stripped away,
Flames by night, darkness by day.

Festering black sores deface the terrain,
No respite, no refrain.
Numerous atrocities so many souls obtain,
A culture stripped is so hard to regain.

Books of history, written bout’ the sand,
Faceless soldiers have retaken the land.
Their lives continue, the nation forges on,
The face of death is finally gone.
Posted by Bodyguard  2004-07-27 11:35:11 AM||   2004-07-27 11:35:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 "Look on my works, ye mighty, and trenble..."
Posted by Fred  2004-07-27 11:43:34 AM||   2004-07-27 11:43:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Dear Osama, how you been?
The wives, the kids, the den?
Me? Not so bad.
But my kids… ya that was sad.

But look at the bright side.
Im having tons of fun.
Eatin cookies, writin poems
Although, I miss the sun.

But prisons not so bad
Like I said the food is good
And Allah’s got my back
Just like Mohammed said he would.

So Im sure you got the memo
To spring good ol’ Saddam
So this is a reminder
If you don’t I think Im done.

It really worries me a lot
To me letters no reply
I sent you lots of little notes
I guess I wonder why

I thought that we were pals
But it sure has been a while
I miss hearing your Jihad talk
And I sure do miss your smile.

So hurry, come and break me out
Or at least you could me write
That way I’d know that you still care
I’d know that you’re alright

So I’ll be waiting for your letter
Send a picture if you could
And spray it with your love perfume
Just the thought gives me a ....
Posted by Anonymously yours 2004-07-27 12:49:02 PM||   2004-07-27 12:49:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Just the thought gives me a ....

COFFEE ALERT!
Posted by Bodyguard  2004-07-27 1:01:02 PM||   2004-07-27 1:01:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 #7

There once was a man from Tikrit
who was such an obnoxious shit
no one ever explained
why his sons raped and maimed
but they're dead like he'll be in a bit.

#10 somebody say hiakoo? how many syllables is draw and quartered?

"Drawn and quartered" would be four syllables, as in:

Steak cut up by chef
Summer eyed troops want me
drawn and quartered too
Posted by Zenster 2004-07-27 4:14:29 PM||   2004-07-27 4:14:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 There once was a man named Saddam
Who in prison was made to wear a thong

Oops. Im sorry, I just grosed myself out.
Posted by Anonymously yours 2004-07-27 5:25:37 PM||   2004-07-27 5:25:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Sung to "All By Myself"
Music : Eric Carmen & Sergei Rachmaninov

When I was young
I never needed anyone
And torturing folks was just for fun
Those days are gone

Alone in a cell
I think of all the folks that I’ve bribed
But when I write the letters now
Answers are few

Alone in a cell
Don’t wanna be, alone in this cell
Up on the wall
Don’t wanna look, at Bush's picture anymore

Hard to be sure
Some times I feel so surely doomed
And good times so distant and long gone
There is no cure
Posted by Oge_Retla_2004 2004-07-27 5:59:23 PM||   2004-07-27 5:59:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 "I'm the kind of Muslim that is built to last..
"Fu*k with me and get a foot up your a*s!"

_________Easy E borg
Posted by borgboy 2004-07-27 7:40:15 PM||   2004-07-27 7:40:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Who blow'd up da owl? ....ahhh that's been done already.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-07-27 8:24:09 PM||   2004-07-27 8:24:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Dead
Dead
Dead
Soon
Posted by tu3031 2004-07-27 8:34:31 PM||   2004-07-27 8:34:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Classic thread?
Posted by Korora  2004-07-27 10:03:10 PM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com]  2004-07-27 10:03:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 "Doom, despair, and agony on me,
"Deep dark depression, endless misery,
"If it weren't for bad luck,
"I'd have no luck at all,
"Doom, despair, and agony on me."

______________Junior Samples
Posted by borgboy 2004-07-27 10:24:28 PM||   2004-07-27 10:24:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Curiously enough, France's foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin was an amateur poet. As we know, Monsieur de Villepin argued eloquently against the Iraq invasion. Perhaps Dominque and Saddam "touched" one another with heady poetry in the past which caused an empathy between the two?
Posted by rex 2004-07-27 10:32:19 PM||   2004-07-27 10:32:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 god willing,

here im in sit
great leader of nation
my rule in ligit
dont lissen chainey sayin

ima great muslim savior
befor crusader came callin
cuz in my behavior
my statue now fallin

bush isnt see
all good thing im done
maybe peples aint free
but the peace in been won

blasted shia and kurds
they are need teach a lesson
sarin gas in does hurt
now they no more are messin

i am great conquer!
those dog in iran
im make many a slaughter
and bring peace in the land

then infedil kuwait
in test all my patience
they are bring they own fate
by being a nation

then goddamer bush!
he is make coalition
ima get kick in the tush
my dream not see fruition

then good years are follow
after take care shia mess
un resolve in shallow
clinton staining em dress

ima have 2 good sons
litle ooday and kusay
they are learned them lessons
on killing and pussy

then tragic day is strike
and im knew end at the door
no awful message like
bush till 2004

ima knew this happen!
him threat i am hear
then 911 happen
ima grow me a beard

he is not understand
itn my peples im love
palaces all over the land
so im can look at them from above

so now here im in sit
my trial in draw nearer
this fate in bullshit
for great muslim leader!

allahu ackar!





Posted by saddam4doo 2004-07-27 11:15:42 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2004-07-27 11:15:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Mucky, too funny! ROFL
And you mentioned your hero, chainey!
Posted by GreatestJeneration  2004-07-27 11:17:51 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-07-27 11:17:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Sorry I'm so late.

I'm in the slammer,
The evidence a damner.
I'm screwed.
I'm through.
How true.
Down will come Justice's hammer.
Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-08-19 9:47:05 AM||   2004-08-19 9:47:05 AM|| Front Page Top

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