Tender soldiers weeping

The war, the war on Man, the
war on woman, the ghost
assembled armies vanish in
their realms

Iraqi American Bardo Thodols
all the seventy hundred hells from
New York to Baghdad tremble
with tender soldiers weeping

-Allen Ginsberg

War news

The Associated Press is reporting that there seems to be no central command left in the Iraqi army. The few Iraqi tanks that have been encountered were actually trying to surrender. There may be no need for large scale bombing in Iraq. Yesterday's surgical strike on the command bunker in Baghdad may have taken out the top Iraqi command.