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When War Is Not a War

When war is not a war. Kinetic movements causes bomb to fall over Libya. Hence we are not at war with that country, because Kaddafi’s army is is not shooting at us. War is only war when we get hurt or killed. We have been able to banish war from our vocabulary... Send forth unmanned helicopters and drones, we are only engaged in a kinetic operation to subdue the savages. There is no war between the good guys In Benghazi and Gaddafi’s people in Tripoli It is a skirmish And NATO operation in Libya is purely an exercise in Kinematic forward movement.

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Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 7/13/2011 11:20:00 AM

Enjoyed reading your poetry today Jan. Thank you for sharing and I will be back again soon to read more of your writing. Love, Carol

Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 7/13/2011 12:10:00 PM

thank you Carol

Stephen Parker

Date: 7/13/2011 7:50:00 AM

I agree; it is a conflagration of the baser sort that we should quickly abort.

Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 7/13/2011 12:10:00 PM

thank you Stephen. Yeas as soon as possible