China's Lost Libyan Oil Contract
after Gaddafi partially
atoned for Lockerbie
new generation world
leaders sought
Gaddafi's help
in War on Terror
to secure energy security
after all this son
of an illiterate
Bedouin herder
had already hatched plans
to topple Libyan monarchy
when still at study in college
after military
training in
Greece Britain
our boy Gaddafi
led a successful revolution
at the age of 27
like Mao
Gaddafi outlined
his political
views in
a brief blunt
Green Book
yes like our
dictator Idi Amin
of Uganda
he was ours
for a time
until escaping
Gaddafi was
a good man
donated money
for humanitarian
causes across Africa
allowed Africans
to work in Libya
built mosques
in African countries
supported African
rebels in South Africa
Zimbabwe against
Apartheid but!
Gaddafi also supported
scores of rebel
movements in places
like Chad, Liberia,
Sudan, Sierra Leone
Gaddafi sent
high school pupils
to the frontline
in Chad's
Civil War
telling them
they were
going on
a field trip
Palestinian militants
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
all had training camps
in Libya but the Irish left
due to tight alcohol laws
unseemly connections
earned Gaddafi the title
world's premier state
sponsor of terrorism!
implicated in terrorist
attacks Munich Massacre
in 1972 shooting of protesters
from inside Libyan Embassy
in London in 1983 the Berlin
discotheque bombing 1986
Gaddafi mad dog of Middle East
authorized bombing of Tripoli
killing his own adopted daughter
Lockerbie Bombings of 1988
to name dropp but a famous few
Gaddafi his vision a second USA
Gaddafi's United States of Africa
modeled after the European Union
Gaddafi himself to be "King of Kings"
emerged as key mediator in negotiations
for Western hostages kidnapped in Mali
and Niger Gaddafi at 2009 G-8 summit
a bogeyman ally in War on Terror
Colonel Gaddafi a bizarre twisted history
"betting on futures
old buddy Gaddafi
your out bad boy
Libyan oil is in
renegotiated deal
new rebel alliance
for empire
Libyan Chinese
oil contract
guillotined
new management
no fly zone"
but don't foolishly count
Gaddafi out on rung bell
vampires are hard to stake
Libya is engaged in tribal war
a martyr Gaddafi will haunt
grave terrorism his ace card
beware mad dogs on last legs
beware four decades survivor
beware revenge of mad dictator
Four stanzas quoted are from ‘Sweet Words Freshly Banked' by Terence George Craddock.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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