Come children one and all
Come gather your pennies together
for your penny harvest
to save the children of Afghanistan
from starvation
and sure death
this winter strong.

Our bombs killed many
too hungry and too poor to run away.
Our bombs that rained from the skies.
But they deserved them all!
For we are strong!
And we can't be beat!

Even our food from the skies
knocked them dead
to smithereens
Even as they slept in their terrorist beds.
Tons hurling at lightening speed.
We were on their side.
You see?
They didn't need any graves.
Poor souls!
Their bodies torn to shreds
Even as they slept.
For everything that moved had to die.
You see?

Go meet your Allah in hell
We told them.
Even as we told them
how much we loved them.

Come little children
Do your piece now.
Convince one and all
how much we all love them.
Come collect your pennies
to repair their land
torn to shreds
by our billion dollar bombs.
You see our might and their plight?
They turn to us for mercy instead of the Lord!
We can't be beat!

Yes, we know we should have turned the other cheek
But that's only for public consumption.
We'll let Hollywood convince them
in sixty second ads
that we meant no harm.
That we were out to get only two
But got twenty thousand instead.
Some of them were only friendly fire, we said.
Now we must clean up the streets of Kabul and Kandahar.
Pick up the dead bodies--and all those bombs,
landmines and all....

Come little children, let's not disappoint
the children of Afghanistan.
Let's send them Christmas trees and teddy bears
because they need our help.
Come count your pennies little children of America.

"Mommy, why do the children in Afghanistan need my pennies?"
"Because the President said so!" she said.

1. The western provinces are in the hands of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party [now Islamized.] Opportunists among tribal chiefs around Baghdad and in Anbar province have made deals with the U.S. These tribal [very backward] chiefs have driven out al-Qaida in return for non-interference by the U.S. along with quantities of dollars.
2. Mosul, Diyala, and the northwest are in the hands of al-Qaida-in-Iraq [with help from Islamic volunteers from 22 countries].
3. The South all the way down from Baghdad is in Shi'ite hands. The Shi'ites of Iraq are seen as the dregs of Shi'ism who welcomed the invading armies and sealed the fate of Shi'ism in the modern era through their treachery and violation of the teachings of Ali, r.a., and Imam Hussain. The Shi'ites are of several categories:
   1. CIA agents such as Nuri al-Maliki.
   2. Iranian agents such as al-Hakim.
   3. Illiterate sectarians, such as al-Sadr [who was used by the U.S. to carry out ethnic cleansing of the Sunnis in Baghdad.]
   4. Small groups of Shi'ites dealing directly with Iran and seen as a serious problem by the U.S.
4. Baghdad itself is subdivided into zones controlled by al-Sadr, Saddam's Ba'ath and al-Qaida-in-Iraq..
5. Kurdish enclaves in the north, very westernized and in part linked to Israel.

1. Saddam Hussain had embraced Islam and decided to accept martyrdom rather than surrender.
2. He knew that his army was no match for that of America, so he organized for guerrilla warfare.
3. In 22 regions of Iraq, Saddam stored massive supplies of basic explosives and small arms with huge quantities of ammunition.
4. In his last years, he urged the Imams throughout Iraq to prepare the people for Jihad. He told the Imams to speak as they wished in the mosques as long as they did not call for his overthrow.
5. He ordered members of the Ba'ath party to study Islam and prepare for battle. He praised the Taliban's resistance to the U.S. as a good example for Iraq.,
6. 'Shock and Awe' was meant to kill Saddam. The U.S. used huge bombs but failed to kill him [as they had failed 33 times before during the sanctions regime].
7. Even when Iraq was occupied in 2003, Saddam did not surrender. He went underground and continued to coordinate the resistance. His sons and grandson went down fighting to the last.
8. Saddam was captured but refused to compromise. He was a changed man. He would come to the puppet court set up by the U.S. [to "try" him] with the Qur'an in his hand. From the court, with his life on the line, he urged the Iraqi people to fight on and never compromise with occupation. He went to his Creator, with the kalima of Islam on his lips. This was indeed true martyrdom; purified by his own blood, Saddam stands today as the symbol of Iraqi, Arab and Islamic resistance forever!
9. As the resistance continued, tens of thousands of Islamic volunteers from all over Africa, the Middle East and South Asia entered Iraq to help the Islamic resistance. Thus emerged al-Qaida-in-Iraq which put fear into the hearts of America's elite military forces. Hundreds of martyrdom operators ['suicide bombers'] flung themselves at America's tanks and at the bunkers of the Shi'ite allies of the U.S.
10. Bush's response was brutal in the extreme. Entire Islamic cities were wiped out, among them large areas of Ramadi, Fallujah, Haditha Tal Afar and Baghdad itself. Hundreds of Islamic schools and mosques were smashed. To humiliate the forces of Islam, mosques were used as camping grounds and urinals by the Americans. Air strikes were used if an al-Qaida fighter was seen entering his home. American troops smashed their way into tens of thousands of Iraqi homes looking for al-Qaida's Islamic fighters.