My friend is a poet (that's how I know him) and all his recent poems have been about the war.

And he is ANGRY.

Angry about how the liberals in this country depict the troops as bloodless killers.

Angry about how the conservatives in this country give more lip service than actual support to the troops, by sending them into dangerous situations without adequate weapons. As he put it, "The 40 million dollars that Bush supporters gave for the inauguration? I look at that as 4,000 desperately needed units of body armor, which we did not have."

Angry at all the civilians who, upon hearing he just got back from active service in Iraq, cluelessly say "I know what you went through."

And so on.