What song best describes Iraq?

[Mattforclark]

My vote goes to:




THE STROKES

"The End Has No End"

One by one, ticking time bombs won - Yep
It's not the secret of the government - PNAC is public
That;s keeping you dumb - sheep
Oh, it's the other way around - wait... - Oh, wait?
What's that sound? - Oh
One by one, baby, here they come. - Relentless media campaign

He wants it easy; he want it relaxed - Rummy wants flowers
Said I can do alot of things, but I can't do that - Enter Shinseki
Two steps forward, then three steps back - :(
...Alright - Whatever you say, Dubya

"Won't you take a walk outside?" - Think, please?
-Oh no. - No
"Can't you find some other guy?" - Can we get some allies?
-Oh no. - No
"1 9 6 9 what's that sound?" - Can you hear, LBJ's presidency ended in 1969?
-Oh no. - No
Keeping down the underground - You know what that means

Oh no... - No

The end has no end the end has no end - Quagmire
The end has no end the end has no end - Quagmire


He want it easy; he want it relaxed - Rummy wants flowers
Said I can do alot of things, but I can't do that - Enter Shinseki
Two steps forward, then three steps back - :(
It won't be easy - Yeah, we know

"Won't you take a walk outside?" - Think, please?
-Oh no. - No
"Can't you find some other guy?" - Can we get some allies?
-Oh no. - No
"1 9 6 3 what's that sound?" - Can you hear, LBJ's presidency began in 1963?
-Oh no. - No
Keeping down the underground - You know what that means

Oh no... - No

The end has no end the end has no end - Quagmire
The end has no end the end has no end - Quagmire
The end has no end the end has no end - Quagmire
The end has no end the end has no end... - Quagmire

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Showing my age,

but Pete Seeger's
Neck Deep in the Muddy Water

"We were neck deep in the muddy water
And the damn fool said to push on."

[liarliartieonfire]

2. Helter Skelter

Bush, The Patron Saint of Miserable Failures

[bobthedrummer]

3. "When the music's over, turn out the lights

turn out the lights
turn out the lights..."

[DrWeird]

4. "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin.

As sung by Bing Crosby.

[necso]

5. "Ship of Fools" by the Grateful Dead

describes everything that these idiots do.

[mitchtv]

6. feel like I'm fixin to die rag

country Joe and the fish

[GreenArrow]

7. "a hard rain's a gonna fall"

just for starters.

[GreenArrow]

8. "paid vacation" --

Paid Vacation"

I hope you're having fun
where's your uniform? where's your gun?
better rub up that suntan oil
'cause you'll be fighting in the desert

it's not..vietnam
just another oil company scam

salute that flag of uncle sam
get your money out place your bets
it's afghanistan!!
fix bayonets,check grenades
got enough bullets
got enough rounds to wipe out this place?
Were the infantry & cavalery
parachutes fill the skie, bodies burn and people die

--Circle Jerks, from way back in 1980

[livetohike]

9. I'd Love to Change the World

Ten Years After

[thecrow]

10. Jackson Browne's "Lives in the Balance"

LIVES IN THE BALANCE

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

(c) 1986 SWALLOW TURN MUSIC, ASCAP