Guess who wrote this! Don't give it away. Let people go to the website for themselves.

[JDPriestly]

Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword;
He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored;
He hath loosed his fateful lightnings, and with woe and death has scored;
His lust is marching on.

I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded him an altar in the Eastern dews and damps;
I have read his doomful mission by the dim and flaring lamps--
His night is marching on.

I have read his bandit gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my pretensions, so with you my wrath shall deal;
Let the faithless son of Freedom crush the patriot with his heel;
Lo, Greed is marching on!"

We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat;*
Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat;
O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet!
Our god is marching on!

http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/twain/notkill.htm

[barbtries]

1. answer's given away

in the link, i think. haven't looked yet. however: it sure seems to be all about gwbush doesn't it?

[JDPriestly]

3. I was amazed to read it. Prescient, don't you think?

[hootinholler]

5. Yes it is!

:rofl:

-Hoot

[malaise]

2. I love that man

He was a genius.
K& R

[me b zola]

4. K&R!

[struggle4progress]

6. "I am said to be a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am

always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute"

http://www.marxists.de/culture/twain/noteach.htm

[Nevernose]

7. That was written about US occupation of the Philippines

The war in the Philippines is when he got REALLY bitter. Still funny, but angry, too. Except for a couple of novels, his stuff from that period and afterwards is what holds up best today.