We watched the bombs as they exploded
on our 52" Big Screen HDTV w/Surround Sound
the colors were magnificent in their glory
the blood on soldiers and innocents alike
was so realistic and color perfect
i wanted to put my hand to the screen to feel it
the Surround Sound captured the ear-splitting
million dollar bombs as they destroyed indiscriminately
and i held my hands over my ears and turned the TV UP
to get one iota of an idea of what it must have sounded like
i laugh as i remember the people running like rats
with no one having any idea which way to run
i thought of the betting rooms of Las Vegas
calculating the odds of running one way.., and dying
or running in the opposite direction.., and only losing a leg
i brought buttered popcorn and iced-tea
and sat in my luscious recliner that turns into a bed
i didn't want to miss a minute of the gladiators fighting
as soon as Saddam Hussein unleashed his barbarians
i imagined hand-to-hand combat to the death
both sides with their bayonets putting on a show of shows
all Live and in Living Color and i had chills at the thought
but, alas, it never came to pass, so, so, sad
i watched again as looters ran with stolen Golden toilets
as our leaders did nothing and the country imploded
when informed there were no mushroom-clouded nukes
i tossed my cold popcorn and poured out my melted iced-tea
and switched the 52" Big Screen TV to American Idol
where i got what was promised to me
good guys and bad guys laughing and crying
were there were real winners and real losers
unlike a ten year old war that was a dud to watch
and no one even won a trip to Hollywood to meet Simon
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Shame on us.
And few here give a rat's ass about what happens in Iraq.
R
rated with love
u can continue to watch the fun,
sparse as it may be.
there are still plenty private contractors
protecting lots & lots of american diplomatic types
there. violence is inevitable.
keep yer 52-er warm by watching the "saw" movies
until the iran situation heats up.
rated
HUGGGGGGGGGG
But, they reason in their youthful way, we will surely be heroes when we return home. A grateful nation will honour us and thank us for our sacrifice. And return home they mostly do. Broken in body, or in mind, or in both. And no one knows them. No one even wants to know them.
Then, at home, they learn what their true "sacrifice" is to be.....
You'd think that an older generation would have warned them, wouldn't you? I wonder if they'll warn the next generation.
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Two things....One, I remember seeing a headline when we were protesting going into the war. ' Civil War in Iraq'. That was the possibility for after the war. It didn't seem worth it to me at all.
And two I remember being riveted to the dam tv and hearing about the bodies of the soldiers hung from the bridge in Baghdad. Geez it was a brutal war. It was an invasion of high degree televised to the masses. I am glad it is over.
I don't want that to happen to Iran.
Rockin' in the the free world indeed ^R^
Rockin' in the the free world indeed ^R^
Yes but not before Dubya’s shopping list of Sumerian artifacts was filled
I am also guilty of applauding shock and awe, back then we were all “Young Americans”
The video is awesome. It reminds me of when I was twenty, about, and I saw Pearl Jam in concert with Neil Young and they played this. Cool memory. Cool time...before all this.
went to the heart of it.
mesopotamia!
no fix, poor america.
oh she now so sad.
gonna get rid of what we maybe got, an obama.
ah who will miss him? certainly not me.
a gingrich! a silly rumpled gnome for prez.
a wimmin for vice prez.
an michelle bachmann or palin type i guess.
sure.
whaaaaaaatever.
what the fuck would i care, as an interested american?
is it america?
it is.
lincoln. emerson.
emerson!
Power is in nature the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. The genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul.
But now we are a mob.
Man does not stand in awe of man,
nor is his genius admonished to stay at home,
to put itself in communication
with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad
to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."
how america sings when ya listen to yer emerson.
Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.