Published: Posthumously Author: Mullah Mohammed Omar
Twas the night before Ramadan, and all through the cave
Not a creature was stirring, it felt like a grave.
The turbans were hung by the firepit with care,
In hopes that the US Air Force would not soon be there.
The soldiers were restless, without any beds,
While visions of air strikes flashed in their heads.
Osama in his burkha, and I in my goatskin cap,
Had just settled down for a cold, barren winter's nap,
When out on the ledge, there arose such a clatter,
I grabbed my Kalashnikov to see what was the matter.
Away from the racket, I ran like a girl,
Tripped over a goat, into a ball I did curl.
The moon shone down, on the new-fallen snow
And lit up the valley, with an ominous glow.
When, what to my one good eye should appear,
But a dozen Apaches, and M-1's in the rear.
And their leader so fearless, his troops he did push,
I knew in an instant- it must be George Bush.
More rapid than eagles, his forces they came,
And they whistled and shouted, and called out our names-
"Now Omar! Osama! Muhammad! Abdul!
We come for you now, we've taken Kabul!
To the top of the cliffs, to the back of their caves!
When you chose this war, you dug your own graves!"
As the dry leaves, that before the assault choppers fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, light up the sky.
So up to the ledge, his forces they flew-
with full magazines, and flamethrowers too.
And then in a twinkling, I heard with a thud
the explosions of Tomahawks, not one was a dud.
As I chambered my rifle, and was turning around,
Osama was there, disguised in a gown.
He was dressed all in drag, from his head to his toes,
And he said he would flee, while I held off his foes.
A bundle of money he had stuffed in his pack,
He said "I'm going to Baghdad, and I'm not looking back!"
His eyes were all glassy, he trembled with fear;
The American bombs, they rang in his ears.
He saddled his goat, then turned tail and fled,
But a US sniper, shot him in the head.
I watched with cold fear, as his body did slump-
The goat threw him off, he fell with a thump.
And so there I stood, my plans all destroyed,
about to suffer a fate I could not avoid.
I dropped to my knees, asked Allah for help,
His voice boomed in my ears, "YOU IGNORANT WHELP!
I gave you the Bible, the Torah and Koran,
But you were too arrogant to understand!
I told you to honor, your neighbors and wives-
not to enslave them, or degrade their lives!
You invoke My name, to sanction your deeds,
but you are the last thing, that this world needs-
And so I'll send you and bin Laden to Hell."
The last words I heard, as the bombs fell,
Were from George Bush himself, as he scaled the wall,
"ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!"
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -General George Patton
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