Sinners and the sinned

Tigris and Euphrates have memories,
Of the Garden of Eden near Basra,
Fertility embraced civilization there,
So they called the land Mesopotamia.

Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians,
Turkish Ottoman Empire and the British,
Faisal first, a stooge of the British,
And monarchy died with Faisel No. ii,

Each night a story is heard
Haron al Rashid's one thousand and one,
With extended life to permanance!

History now remembers Saddam'
May be Satan to some, God to others.
Khomeini hated,  but resisted,
Kwait hated, the USA and others too.
The war devastated Saddam
He died a valiant death.

Ravages of sins, pogroms,
Hooked him into power--divested death.
Flows his blood, red civilized rivers carry
All his sins.  Macabre dance, Satanic jazz. 

Great civilizations die.  Nefarious men
Set culture on fire.  That was how
Mesopotamian civilization became name sake!