Thursday 16 February 2012

1991 - Waiting for the hammer to fall

In '91 the Gulf War (Number One)
Breaks out mid-January, with Scud missiles
From Iraq to Israel, Americans
In Saudi also hit, Saddam's men file
Back out of Kuwait by March, their stockpile
Of chemical, biological, nuclear
Weapons being scrutinised from then until
The Second Gulf War. Ethiopia,
Somalia change, Commie USSR
Can no longer support them, one by one
Its republics secede. Yeltsin reviles
A reactionary army coup, and the
Papers are signed with Belarus, Ukraine
Dissolving Union hammers and sickles

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