A Poem After Listening to General Petraeus Testify

On 9/11 the day we were attacked
Al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.
So illogically thinking it was right
We decided it is Iraq we will fight.

We attacked and low and behold
Al Qaeda is now there we are told.
So right this day it seems to appear
Al Qaeda in Iraq is our great fear.

That they are there we have to stay
Until the time we chase them away.
If we didn’t go there it seems to me
Iraq would have been Al Qaeda free.

After four long years and four thousand dead
From all that appears we’ve not gotten ahead.
We're trying to get what we already had
That is why this war makes me so mad.