Look Who's Talking

How can we blame him? Think of it!
His Doubl’ya recalcitrant,
Determining as he saw fit
Affairs of state as president,
Although in doing so he snubbed
And, boss Dick Cheney, wrongly rubbed.

It’s soon to come out in his book
That toward the end of White House days,
He thought that Doubl’ya mistook
For cruel perhaps illegal ways,
Routines like waterboarding use,
Results—no matter what—excuse.

Of offshore, CIA-run jails
In lands that sanctioned this and more.
The Veep suggests his book unveils
A Doubl’ya unseen before,
Who worried what the public thought.
(Concern our civics teachers taught.)

When reaching out to Kim Jong Il
And even signaling Iran,
Bush showed, feared Cheney, such good will,
You’d think he’d joined that leftist clan,
No longer tough and strong like him,
Who dodged the draft for life and limb.