Comments on: What Martin Would Say About Iraq

By: imsmall

imsmall — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:42:00 +0000

THINK TWICE

O, it is well, to serve one´s country,
The homeland to preserve, and keep
Secure--though war no childish stunt be,
While we that serve do get in deep.

O, I have heard from Wilfred Owen
That it is proud, to fight and die
For principles--or people goin´
Out to the mall to shop and buy.

Yet note as well, it is engaged
These recent years, in a great struggle,
Based upon lies, while men enraged
Self-zone to places that no drug´ll:

It is a long way back, if ever
Return to normalcy be had:
Permanently we run for cover
As realize that war is bad.

Most certainly, this war unjust
As good for well-paid profiteers
But not for us--it has gone bust,
Unprincipled, and ours the jeers.

Therefore, young man, although you might
Consider an enlistment, first
Heed words of those, with second sight,
As saw the promises turn cursed.

Enlist you might, but you will serve
The worst of profit-driven men:
In this case, you may have the nerve
But nerve can´t calm a conscience when

You realize that you were made
A fool--the mind tries to resist
The notion: causes are portrayed,
But for this I would not enlist.

By: Bronzetrinity

Bronzetrinity — Thu, 31 May 2007 04:30:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:49:00 +0000

Re: "The enemy in Vietnam had neither the intent nor the capability to strike our homeland," he said. "The enemy in Iraq does."

To start, Vietnam was a greed fest for Defense Contractors too, a distinction shared with Iraq . That said, the Vietnamese , as we were told back then , were proxies , the implied enemy of that war was the Soviet Union , who certainly could have hit us at home , had cooler and obviously wiser heads not avoided a direct fight with them .Bush makes me ill , even his baseless rhetoric is without foundation and detached even from documented history .