Ive 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 youve seen it before
Where
a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war
And theres 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 cant 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
Theres a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the
flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we cant 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 theyre 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
- Jackson Browne |
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War is hell, don't let anyone tell you any different. To enter into it for any reason other than self-protection is insane. Outside of the obvious physical harm done to many on both sides it is also devastating emotionally/ personally on both sides. Click on this link to a website providing real uncensored images from the Iraq war, courtesy of AfterDowningStreet.org.
WARNING! This is not the sanitized view that the corporate mass media presents trying to sell and maintain this war. You know... don't worry, be happy, never mind the killing of inocent people that is happening in your name for lies. These are real images of what we are really doing in this real war, again, in your name Neo.
If you have broadband, you can click on the link below. It is a YouTube video remake of Lives In The Balance.
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