Veiled ode to George Bush deleted from Pakistani textbooks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,1657964,00.html


At first sight it is little more than a poetic polemic about the virtues of an effective leader. But a poem has been removed from school textbooks in Pakistan after it became clear that the first letter of each line spelt out "President George W Bush".

Penned by an anonymous writer, The Leader embarrassed education officials in the country after it found its way into an English textbook for 16-year-olds

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An official working with the Pakistan Education ministry told the Times of India: "We have decided to delete the poem from the book, published by the National Book Foundation, and prescribed for federal board students

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An investigation has been launched to find out how the work was not spotted by the committees which censor the content of textbooks. It was first printed in A Textbook of English last year after the Pakistani government took the decision to deregulate the publication of textbooks.
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shall we place bets on who put the poem in the textbook?

either the she-Cheney who is on a mission to bushgangerize all school books from kindergarden to univ. Dr. degrees.

or Karen nanny Hughes who is on a mission to get the middle east to love smirk and the bushgang policy.

The National Book Found. is bushgang territory.

the whole poem is on the site if you can stand to read that pukiness.

could come up with a poem that is far more accurate about Bush-maybe the first lines would spell out "Total Failure".

"The Buck Stops Here," is what great leaders say
Of course, that's after first blaming the CIA
The media, the pundits, and lets not forget
All the liberal traitors in the House and Senate

Lack of planning, Dems say, is what brought us this mess
Foresight and vision are not what Bush does best
And in all the confusion the country's forgotten
If 9/11's the reason, then where is bin Laden?

Leaving isn't an option, we are stuck in Iraq
Unless the nation wakes up, and takes our country back
Rembember when voting, in 2006
Everything that Bush broke, a Dem Congress can fix.

This was brilliant-and what gets me is that you made your points and rhymed as well!

The Cult of W. Of all the great leaders of true stature throughout history, this bunch of losers can only identify with this sorry, petty self-centered little jerk.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/grave.asp

TlalocW

The order was put in by his widow and mistress

this is somebody who wants to prove how evil the U.S. is - they don't like us in Pakistan, in case anyone here doesn't know.

English IS the national language, followed by Urdu as the "common tongue", so there would indeed be textbooks in English, since nobody questioned that.

Go get 'em tiger
Even though we know you're not a fighter
Or really even a man
Run george run, fast as you can
Gonna' get ya' no matter what
Enjoy your freedom until you're got
We won't stop
Before you go remember to
Use the paper to clean off the DOO DOO
Shit happens even to you
Hard to feel sorry for such a fool

dm

I have a strong stomach, so I went and read the poem.

That is one sappy POS poem. Reads like it was written by a lovesick 13-year-old.

Hmm...maybe they farmed it out to "most brilliant man I ever met" herself??