<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><b>War Crimes</b><div><div><br></div><div>Author unknown</div><div><br></div><div>It's time I stood and spoke of war, </div><div>A candid speech display. </div><div>To tell you things you used to know; </div><div>Forgotten, on the way. </div><div><br></div><div>I hear they plan to have a trial </div><div>Of criminal intent. </div><div>Displaying soldiers in a cage, </div><div>Who blessed this sad event? </div><div><br></div><div>They say they did a most foul deed </div><div>By killing innocents. </div><div>Just retribution, as they say; </div><div>An evil consequence. </div><div><br></div><div>Its time I lay to rest, at last, </div><div>A base canard of life. </div><div>That war is one more legal way </div><div>To deal with pain and strife. </div><div><br></div><div>I hate to put it bluntly now, </div><div>But most of you won't hear; </div><div>If I would only gently speak </div><div>These words you need not fear. </div><div><br></div><div>Some time ago, a wisdom born </div><div>Of death and man's intent; </div><div>Was fostered on the souls of men </div><div>To hasten their descent. </div><div><br></div><div>It said that there are crimes of war </div><div>That men must never do. </div><div>And perpetrated, in this way; </div><div>A values dream, or two. </div><div><br></div><div>By doing this, they justified </div><div>The basest deed of all. </div><div>And legalized, with mal intent; </div><div>Man's certain, deadly fall. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm here to tell you true at last, </div><div>What you already know. </div><div>The concept there are crimes of war, </div><div>Has never thus been so. </div><div><br></div><div>Whatever deed is done in war, </div><div>As jusified by man; </div><div>Is covered in the book of faith, </div><div>As per the Master's plan. </div><div><br></div><div>There is no deed a man may do </div><div>In war that's his intent. </div><div>The moral choice was duly made </div><div>The day that he was sent. </div><div><br></div><div>Man makes his choice when he decides </div><div>To yield his soul to man. </div><div>And joins them in the enterprise </div><div>Of evil deeds they plan. </div><div><br></div><div>When after yielding up his soul, </div><div>He then is sent to war; </div><div>It doesn't matter what he does, </div><div>He can't yield anymore. </div><div><br></div><div>There is no crime he can commit </div><div>Against his fellow man. </div><div>No grading of the deeds he does. </div><div>In Hell, there is no fan. </div><div><br></div><div>So let me bluntly tell you true. </div><div>And take this to your graves. </div><div>The only roads there are to Hell, </div><div>Are those which war sure paves. </div><div><br></div><div>It's war itself, that is the crime; </div><div>That dooms mens souls to Hell. </div><div>The laughs you hear, they come from me; </div><div>It's war, that needs a cell.</div></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></body></html>