Here's a poem written by a Gainesville, Fla, man about the gulf war NO BLOOD FOR OIL It's

   Here's a poem written by a Gainesville, Fla, man about the gulf war: 

 NO BLOOD FOR OIL 

 It's all about how money's spent 
 Freedom is irrelevant 
 A word used as an instrument 
 To motivate the innocent 
 Bush and Hussein in corners coil 
 While children are taught to be loyal 
 To slogans, symbols and to soil 
 They're tricked to trade their blood for oil 
 NO BLOOD FOR OIL   NO BLOOD FOR OIL 

 We saw them slaughtered in Beijing 
 Reagan and Bush said not a thing 
 To human rights they did not cling 
 Because no profit would it bring 
 So typical of the right wing 
 Now listen to the song they sing 
 "Naked aggression" they say why 
 10,000 missions the boys fly 
 But not a plane took to the air 
 When thousands shot in Tiananmen Square 
 We're tricked to trade our blood for oil 
 NO BLOOD FOR OIL   NO BLOOD FOR OIL 

 Kuwait you're gonna liberate 
 The honesty of Contra-gate 
 While homeless cannot beg a plate 
 Research for AIDS will have to wait 
 Condemn the blacks to ghetto state 
 Forgive the rich loans they create 
 Let's "kick some ass" from swivel chair 
 More young will die but who will care?  
 Just hail them "heroes" mouth a prayer 
 And bury them with flag and flair 
 But who will profit from their toil 
 They're tricked to trade our blood for oil 
 NO BLOOD FOR OIL   NO BLOOD FOR OIL 

 There's one thing more I have to say 
 Are any rich kids sent away?  
 They're put in schools to drink and play 
 To keep them out of horror's way 
 "Support our troops" they write on vans 
 Too costly for the common man 
 But words are cheap like desert sand 
 Hussein and Bush possess one mind 
 For Texas tea they kill their kind 
 The struggle is for currency 
 Not "jihad" or "democracy" 
 These words they use dupliciously 
 A trick to trade our blood for oil 
 NO BLOOD FOR OIL   NO BLOOD FOR OIL 

                         - Matt Kulmacz