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The DOA

Bush and handlers think the DOD is out of date

And needs big bucks, global evil to dominate.

So let’s name it anew,

Then we’ll understand it too.

 

Department of Aggression rings red-blooded, honest, and okay.

Our youth could march cheering to war with this DOA.

When hate, and husbanded hidden WMDs, explode around this DOA,

How many of our innocents will come home, and to what?

How many of theirs and ours will lie stinking instead, and for what?

All of them FNU/LNU and differently DOA

To the uncaring powers that sent them,

And maybe as well, to you and to me.

Bill Christison joined the CIA in 1950, and served on the analysis side of the Agency for 28 years. From the early 1970s he served as National Intelligence Officer (principal adviser to the Director of Central Intelligence on certain areas) for, at various times, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa. Before he retired in 1979 he was Director of the CIA’s Office of Regional and Political Analysis, a 250-person unit. His wife Kathy also worked in the CIA, retiring in 1979. Since then she has been mainly preoccupied by the issue of Palestine.