I TOLD YOU SO (TRUMP BOMBING IRAN, COMPARING TO JAPAN)

 From my poem BUNKER BLUSTER

 [he’ll compare himself to]

 supersized Harry Truman

 helping to spread radioactivity 

 until the enemy begs for mercy 

And here’s a GUARDIAN headline: 

Israel-Iran live news: Donald Trump likens US strikes on Iran to atomic bombing of Hiroshima

New Poem: BUNKER BLUSTER

 he’s a transactional president 

 a rancid Santa Claus

 activating the lesser angels

 punching the Fourth Estate

 into face value cheerleading 

 because that’s expected in wartime

 both at home and in Iran

 >

 in a few minutes

 he may try to sell America 

 on the notion that it was just a

 quick bomb drop, only three targets

 and he’s supersized Harry Truman

 helping to spread radioactivity 

 until the enemy begs for mercy 

 >

 chaos chaos everywhere 

 and it all could have been prevented 

 >

 rally around the the upside down flag

Kids repeat the darnedest things their parents/relatives say.

Overheard some children talking around the swimming pool of our townhouse complex today.

Topics included a returning war vet (Iraq?) killing himself and family--the child saying this didn't know why it would happen since "he [the vet] should be glad to be back in the United States."

Another child wondered aloud whether World War III (nuclear war, if I heard the child correctly) would begin if Israel were to bomb Iran.

This is the world according to Canoga Park, CA children on August 30, 2010.