Double Standards

69 to 17 in any sport would be considered a rout,
but those numbers represent respectively the UN resolutions Israel & Iraq flout*.
What's more, Israel's been flouting UN resolution 242 for 30 years,
so Iraq's 12 year violation of UN resolution 1441 still needs room to breathe.

Apparently it's OK for Israel to have WMD's because it's a democracy,
but then Dubya would have us believe in his government's legitimacy.
The only difference between the US & Zimbabwe's election is that in the former no one died,
however in both, the opposition's right to vote was denied.

So pray tell me, how is one to grade a dictatorship,
because evidently there's some kind of sliding scale that is used in real politik?!
After all, according to the west Kim Jong-il is a dictator,
but maybe the fact he's showing off his nuclear armoury is a factor,
in why the US won't be invading North Korea anytime soon
and more pertinently there isn't any oil in the land of the blue moon.

Some would have us believe this war is morally right,
to save ordinary Iraqi's from their terrible plight,
but what about ordinary Zimbabwe's in the throes of a Mugabe induced famine?
You've got to be joking, African lives don't matter in the grand scheme of things!

*Written in the run up to the illegal invasion of Iraq in early 2003