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What better way to take a look at the impending war than through the Christmas lens? Here is my ode to the President?s inclination for the war set to a well-known Christmas poem.

'Twas the night before Christmas and at the White House
Not a creature was stirring, not even a louse
The leaders hoped Santa would bring in his sack
Just one valid reason to level Iraq

Young George was upstairs asleep in his bed
while visions of airstrikes just danced in his head
He'd told the whole world that "we must get Saddam
'cause there's always a chance that he'll do someone harm"

He campaigned maintaining "we're not world police"
but now says we must have a war to keep peace
The economy slid in a downward direction
So they talked up a war and won the election

Some thought it foolish, an arrogent error
to start one new war while we're still fighting terror
The President's critics said his will sure did harden
to keep us from asking "where the hell is bin Laden?"

He tried in great vain, like reaching for Heaven
to claim that Saddam was behind 9-11
But that didn?t work 'cause no one would buy it
though we all hate Saddam, who of course did deny it

The world finally made him get the U.N. involved
to hopefully get things peacefully resolved
The hawks in the White House couldn't understand fully
that acting alone made them look like a bully

"On Cheney, on Condi, on Colin and Rummy
we'll show all those liberals who called me a dummy
The last Iraq war did end kind of sloppy
let's clean up the mess that was left by my poppy"

Like any good child whether lassie or laddie
he's after the guy who made a fool of his daddy
"We heard some bad things from Iraqi defectors
so why must we wait for U.N. inspectors?"

The Prez said he had reports to the roof
though never providing undeniable proof
"We can't tip our hand, you'll just have to trust us
he does have the bomb and he simply disgusts us"

The Prez hasn't made the case as of yet
"Let's scare the world, let's embellish the threat
That creep named Hussein just gets under my skin
so in the true spirit of Christmas let the bombing begin"

Here's wishing all of you a safe, happy and joyous holiday season. That's more than the residents of Baghdad are likely to have.