Rummy "Knows"
To be sung with Ethel Merman to the Cole Porter tune
"Anything Goes"
(In olden days a glimpse of stocking...)

In prior wars each fight was won
   by troops, each one of whom packed a gun,
But Rummy "knows"
That won't be how it goes.

The high tech gadgets, that will ratchet up
   his budget and not just slowly nudge it,
Rummy "knows"
Will keep Bush on his toes.

Missile defense and stealth offense
   to fight insurgents never made much sense,
But,
It's no skin off his nose,

If those troops today,
That he dupes today,
Need much more today
Than "what for?" today,
And "Back up today,
We'll pack up some day and go."

So though it sounds unpatriotic,
We agree that it's idiotic
To retain the idiot who "knows"
"More than a world of silly so and sos."

Music by Cole Porter
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson – 7/27/04

To 'Bushie's Adversaries'