Put down your books and pick up a gun.....

[Jhellis978]

All apologies to Country Joe and the Fish, i simply altered the words to their classic song to fit our times....Over 2,000 dead people....we have to do something:

Well, come on all you big strong men
Uncle Sam needs your help again
He's going in'-- there's no turning back
Created a quagmire in ol' Iraq
Put down your books and pick up a gun
We're going to have a whole lot of fun

And it's 1-2-3
What are we fighting for
Don't ask me I don't give a dam
Bush has created another Vietnam
And it's 5-6-7
Open up the pearly gates
Ain't no time to wonder why
Whoooope...we're all gonna die

Well, come on Wall Street don't be slow
Make this war go..go..go.
There's plenty of money to be made
Supplying the army with the tools of the trade
Just hope and pray that Bush finds the bombs
That belonged to ol'Sadam

And it's 1-2-3
What are we fighting for
Don't ask me I don't give a dam
Bush has created another Vietnam
And it's 5-6-7
Open up the pearly gates
Ain't no time to wonder why
Whoooope...we're all gonna die

Now come on generals..let's move fast
Your big chance is here at last
Just like Reagan said about the "reds"
The only good Arab is one that's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we blow 'em all to kingdom come

And it's 1-2-3
What are we fighting for
Don't ask me I don't give a dam
Bush has created another Vietnam
And it's 5-6-7
Open up the pearly gates
Ain't no time to wonder why
Whoooope...we're all gonna die


Now come on Mother's throughout the land
Send your boys off to fight in the sand
Come on fathers don't hesitate
Send your sons off to defend Kuwait
Be the first one on the block
To have your boy come home in a box

What are we fighting for
Don't ask me I don't give a dam
Bush has created another Vietnam
And it's 5-6-7
Open up the pearly gates
Ain't no time to wonder why
Whoooope...we're all gonna die

Now come on Bush...don't you lie
Tell the mother why her son had to die
Come on Cheaney stop the fear
No blood for oil, buy the soldiers a beer
No more Rummy equals no more pain
This song's designed to drive Republicans insane

What are we fighting for
Don't ask me I don't give a dam
Bush has created another Vietnam
And it's 5-6-7
Open up the pearly gates
Ain't no time to wonder why
Whoooope...we're all gonna die


Protest....vote....contribute to your favorite political organization...just BE active.

[GroobySteven]

BTW did you hear the Rolling Stones song on their album, Sweet Neocon - it's the first time I can remember them being overtly political. It's had no airplay in Hawaii especially as Dave Lawrence (exceptionally good DJ) made a comment a year ago that Sting should keep his mouth shut about Bush and the war as it has nothing to do with a British guy and he should behave like Mick Jagger who never says anything political.
I let him know that rock was based on political movement - no response though.
Anyway great album and very interesting song.
seanchai

[LG]

Below is probably the most famous anti-war poem. It is a personal account of events in WWI and was written by Wilfred Owen, a well known English poet.


Dulce et decorum est

by Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

[NYCe]

BTW did you hear the Rolling Stones song on their album, Sweet Neocon - it's the first time I can remember them being overtly political. It's had no airplay in Hawaii especially as Dave Lawrence (exceptionally good DJ) made a comment a year ago that Sting should keep his mouth shut about Bush and the war as it has nothing to do with a British guy and he should behave like Mick Jagger who never says anything political.
I let him know that rock was based on political movement - no response though.
Anyway great album and very interesting song.
seanchai

I was crestfallen when I read the following.

Jagger: ‘Neo Con’ song isn't anti-Bush
Stones front man says new cut isn't ‘personally aimed’ at president
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:03 p.m. ET Aug. 15, 2005

NEW YORK - The Rolling Stones’ upcoming album contains a song seemingly critical of President Bush, but Mick Jagger denies it’s directed at him, according to the syndicated TV show “Extra.”

“It is not really aimed at anyone,” Jagger said on the entertainment-news show’s Wednesday edition. “It’s not aimed, personally aimed, at President Bush. It wouldn’t be called ’Sweet Neo Con’ if it was.”

The song is from the new album, “A Bigger Bang,” set for release Sept. 6. There is no mention of Bush or Iraq. But it does refer to military contractor Halliburton, which was formerly run by Vice President Cheney and has been awarded key Iraq contracts, and the rising price of gasoline.

“How come you’re so wrong? My sweet neo-con, where’s the money gone, in the Pentagon,” goes one refrain.

The song also includes the line: “It’s liberty for all, democracy’s our style, unless you are against us, then it’s prison without trial.”

“It is certainly very critical of certain policies of the administration, but so what! Lots of people are critical,” Jagger told “Extra.”

A representative for the Stones said the group had no further comment about the song.

[tubgirl]

you know, it's really a shame when we have a war that people are dying in record low numbers...

[Ecstatic]

That's right, NYCe, and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds wasn't about LSD.

[BlackAdder]

Its not a war anymore by the strictest definition of the word, people are just dying over there mostly to improvised explosives....standard guerilla tactics.