Bombing Iran

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak may be preparing for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, perhaps as early as this spring. 

Netanyahu and Barak

Want to bomb Iran this year

Because they’ll make a nuke they fear

That soon no one can block.

If they unleash upon Iran

A devastating bomb attack

Iran will surely answer back

And Israeli towns will fire on.

Hamas and Hizbullah will send

Their many fighters out to kill

Israelis - pretty soon we’ll

Have a war no one can end.

But Netanyahu and Barak

Declare Iran is simply bluffing

And they’ll succeed in snuffing

Out the threat with their attack.

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And meanwhile in our own country

There’s lots of folks who think it’s great

Iran will shortly meet its fate –

They’re largely in the GOP.

They’re mostly men who’ve never fought

before but still they think it's right

To send our sons abroad to fight

In wars that often come to naught.

They're pressuring the President

To buttress Israel's attack

With our own forces at their back

And make our strikes coincident.

Let's pray Obama will insist

That Netanyahu and Barak

Are on their own with this attack

And will persuade them to desist.