Ditty on Invading Iraq

Juan Cole 01/31/2003

Fri Jan 31 02:36:10 2003
To: “[FS]”
From: Juan Cole
Subject: Re: FW: all sing
X-Eudora-Signature:

Dear [S]:

This is delicious!

cheers Juan

At 04:20 PM 1/31/03 +1000, you wrote:

Sing to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands”:

If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq.
If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq.
If the terrorists are frisky,
Pakistan is looking shifty,
North Korea is too risky,

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page