But I can't...so I will cry instead

Just another statistic

The fifth president to authorise air-strickes on Iraq

A long awaited family reunion 

A week of frantic angry calls

A conversation with the foreign office

Just another statistic on the list

Plans and counter plans

A belligerent kurd refusing to descend from the mountain

A seven year old oblivious we hope

I would like to take control, to sort it all out

Protect her from becoming another statistic

But I can't

So I will protect him by a news ban and my silence

And imagine the worst in private

Iraqis the Endangered species

First they came for the Jews and Iraqis did not stop them—

Because the Jews were not Iraqis

Then they came for the Kurds, and Iraqis did not stop them—
Because the Kurds were not Iraqi

Then they came for the Shia, and Iraqis did not stop them—
Because the Shia were not Iraqi 

Then they came for the Sunna, and Iraqis did not stop them—

Because the Sunna were not Iraqi

Then they came for the Turkman, and Iraqis did not stop them—

Because the Turkman were not Iraqi

Then they came for the Christians, and Iraqis did not stop them—

Because the Christians were not Iraqi

Then they came for the Yazidis, and Iraqis did not stop them—
Because the Yazidis were not Iraqi

Then they came for the Iraqi—

But there was no one left.

In my own lifetime "they' have changed, but the brutal expulsion, destruction and murder has continued and intensified. 

I have personally heard this denial of "Iraqiness" used to justify it all

...... they were Israeli agents .......they were Iranian agents...... they were Saudi agents, ...........they were British agents......they worship the devil.......

Every Iraqi is another Iraqi's foreigner,  spy,  traitor,  heathen or all the above and they are all dispensable unless they become.....refugees.....of another nationality