LED ASTRAY by FREAQ
5 years on and it's still not over.
Have you forgotten why you started this war?
Was it for peace or liberty?
Or did you want something more?
Blood of the innocent is spilled everyday.
Can't you see that he's just taking lives?
Taking them away.
With democracy the disguise.
Do you wonder why the economy is doing so bad?
275 million dollars a day
Wouldn't that make you mad?
I say that war is the justifiable product of peace
But maybe I was wrong
What is it that it seeks to spill more of?
The blood or the oil?
Men sent into battle
Their courage I respect
Though led by the cowardice
Of a questionable redneck man.
Your own soil gets wrecked.
The wrath not of a man.
Yet your resources
Spent on other more 'important' tasks at hand.
Another mother cries.
Her son now gone.
Who cares if she's American or Iraqi.
Out of her chest, her heart is torn.
Long shall it be remembered
On that very day.
Our very own martyr.
Led us astray.
5 years on and it's still not over.
Have you forgotten why you started this war?
Was it for peace or liberty?
Or did you want something more?
Blood of the innocent is spilled everyday.
Can't you see that he's just taking lives?
Taking them away.
With democracy the disguise.
Do you wonder why the economy is doing so bad?
275 million dollars a day
Wouldn't that make you mad?
I say that war is the justifiable product of peace
But maybe I was wrong
What is it that it seeks to spill more of?
The blood or the oil?
Men sent into battle
Their courage I respect
Though led by the cowardice
Of a questionable redneck man.
Your own soil gets wrecked.
The wrath not of a man.
Yet your resources
Spent on other more 'important' tasks at hand.
Another mother cries.
Her son now gone.
Who cares if she's American or Iraqi.
Out of her chest, her heart is torn.
Long shall it be remembered
On that very day.
Our very own martyr.
Led us astray.
In Remembrance.
Some other minor points before I go off. Just tiny little observations I made.
Saddam is gone. Yet look at how many have died just for the persecution of just one man. I concede that his aides were also persecuted, but look at the big picture. It's still a large difference. And isn't it amazing that you can find Saddam Hussein in a tiny hole yet you cannot find another wanted man in the form of Osama Bin Laden? One has to question the number of lives needed to be sacrificed before we can get to him.
Another thing. The Iraqi Occupation was initially given the code name Operation Iraqi Liberation. It was then changed to Operation Iraqi Freedom. We can plainly see the acronym for the first code name is O.I.L. Was that a coincidence or were they trying to mess with us by giving us a hint?
The main reason I do not support the Iraqi Occupation is the fact that lives of innocent people are put on the line. As opposed to the Japanese Occupation or the Nazi Invasion, this war was never a case of an aggressor trying to exert control. It is the case of a country trying to suppress a suspected (or maybe even expected) aggressor. So the innocents are not really killed or murdered. However they are seen as more of an expendable resource. So who are the exact victims? I guess that's a question that may come around to bite us hard.
