by George Held
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks
Is the new Daniel Ellsberg
The leaked War Logs
Are the new Pentagon Papers
The U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan
Are the new U.S. troops fighting in Vietnam
The mountains of Afghanistan
Are the new forests of Vietnam
The indigenous Taliban
Are the new Viet Cong
General David Petraeus
Is the new William Westmoreland
The official hope that we can win this war
Is the new “light at the end of the tunnel”
And the old Richard Milhous Nixon
Is Barack Hussein Obama
George Held has collected many of his New Verse News poems in The News Today.
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