Walk in the door
Look at the room
Jump through the window
Accepting your doom
Next, the meadow at dawn
Swords, fists, or pistols
Defending the honor
Right=Might, clear as crystal
Jump in the melee
Submit to the fear
Slaughter your demons
Keep up with your gear
This may last forever
There's no end in sight
You never signed up
For this kind of fight
Then waters grow murky
The goals turn too loose
The ramp up you followed
Was constructed obtuse
Then they led you by the hand
Like a lamb to the slaughter
Using guns, planes, and boats
And now your own sons and daughters
Until the day came
When the fear had all faded
But the battle continued
And the people grew jaded
Now no one explains
In a sensible way
How the whole thing got started
How it all turned so gray.
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Nice piece Huck. "Until the day came, when the fear had all faded". It seems to me Americans, more and more, recognize the "War on Terror" is a bumper-sticker foreign policy that creates terror where none may have existed before. Hence, the battle continues by virtue of the self-fulfilling prophecy. Every act of violence is an act of terrorism. Are Americans so arrogant to suggest we can eliminate violence in the World while murders and rapes are a daily occurrence within our own borders? While innocent people in Iraq are murdered because they were "misidentified"? I'm not suggesting we discontinue all efforts to minimize the violence, but fighting "terror" with "terror" is the definition of insanity, is it not? It's the basics that we need to focus on, the very things that people in Iraq have in common with Americans and Russians and Koreans and all people on Earth. Things like food, water, community, family and progress. The things that bind us all together as humans with the incredible gift of conscious thought capable of overcoming basal instincts. 9 innocent humans had their bodies shredded when bombs were fired on them for no other reason than a "mistake" in every American's name and reputation. It's shameful, regrettable and completely avoidable.
Simply using fire to battle an inferno without knowing how to do it, exactly will not dampen the fire. It will add to it. What we are pretending to accomplish in Iraq is tantamount to fighting a grass-fire with gasoline as you tell onlookers that there is nothing to worry about. Asleep at the wheel doesn't come close to what Bush and Company have set America up for. It is wreckless endangerment, wreckless driving, or at least DUI. Out of sight out of mind....that's what they count on. Even the scandals that surface are simply used to move off of old scandals. And Clinton got impeached for WHAT?????
I weep.
I cannot sleep.
My mind replays
again and again
When
When
When
and WHY
I weep.
Somehow people must be free
I hope the day comes soon
Won't you please come to Chicago
Show your face
From the bottom to the ocean
To the mountains of the moon
Won't you please come to Chicago
No one else can take your place
We can change the world -
Re-arrange the world
It's dying - if you believe in justice
It's dying - and if you believe in freedom
It's dying - let a man live it's own life
It's dying - rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door
We can change the world
The lyrics were written over 30 years ago...
Bill Clinton's impeachment would have made sense had it been aimed at Clinton's failure to pursue an investigation into the Reagan/Bush policies and actions with regard to the Middle East and Central America.
I agree. The open ended "investigation" Clinton was subjected to would cripple the Bush admin. within its first day. There would be more revelations of abuse-of-power in that scenario than anyone has time to look at. It would be "Scandal Overload" from beginning to shameful end. Anyone else itching to see just what such an investigation would reveal about the most secretive administration we've ever had in this country?
Problem is we lost. Now the country is lost. And now - whoever comes into office has to be selfless enough to undo all this secrecy and protection. History WILL judge Bush. The man stripmined our nation.
I think people ust need to stand and say "hey, mind explaining how Iraq keeps people from dying here?"
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