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[title] => An Honourable War?
[time] => 2004-10-28 07:52:51
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[bodytext] => It’s far easier to pretend than to look at the facts In retrospect we see only our 'glorious' acts And it’s easy to ignore what we have destroyed Asserting even more should’ve been deployed We conveniently look only one biased way Not at blasted villages we crushed each day Not thinking of the thousands of lives we ended Just reassert what can’t be defended Retrospect is a wonderful thing, convenient too Perfect rear-view mirror on what was right to do Was it right to napalm and burn them all? Was it right at Mai Lai as the children fall? Was it right to slaughter then crow and shout? Was it good to prop up corruption in the South? Was it REALLY and TRULY an honourable war? Or were we defeated at our political core? Politicians failed to bring the troops back And took the easier path and increased attack And in the end there were fifty thousand dead And the whole Far East did failed to turn red All those illusory fears did NOT come to pass Though hawks brayed these lies like demented ass These ugly men who caused the troops death Shouting their lies with every breath Now Vietnam is at peace, is prosperous and proud Free of the corruption of the political South Just as Cuba had no need of the mob But Republicans at times have a vicious mouth From a gut reaction they create such crap Then when it goes wrong they escape the rap Iraq is just another Republican war They're inventing excuses on what it’s for All those lies, all those dirty vicious lies As the tears roll down and your brother dies Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld too Making mistakes that may kill YOU Asserting and reasserting convenient lies These are the men we should despise No planning - nothing real to create any peace They created a war that will NEVER cease Chaos and Death, that’s what they made In Nam and Iraq, an endless parade Political egos that truly never care Your bravery a tool as they callously stare Safe and comfortable in offices back home THEIR sons or daughters will NEVER come Where you are fighting day on day At home they are and at home they stay These are the criminals who send you to die In Nam and Iraq, hear the cry Political careers soon made or lost But it’s YOU not THEM who will pay the cost [comments] => 4 [counter] => 244 [topic] => 28 [informant] => steeleyes [notes] => Please do not comment on your own work. Your comment on this poem has been removed. You can put a request in the edit / delete forum if you need a poem edited. Thank you. Moderator_18 [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Patriotic )
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