Revenge and payback only breeds more revenge and payback. It's a lesson our leaders never seem to learn.
Perpetual war means perpetual fear ... the constant breeding of new enemies ... a no-win situation.
How grateful would we be if another country's leader said we needed to be liberated from our tyrants — and began bombing us for a week with daisycutters and rockets red glaring. And when the bombing subsided, as we began to fill the hospitals with our injured and dead, they told us we were now liberated from our evil leaders.
As we lay in our dark, filthy hospital beds, while the rest of us buried our family members, would we be singing a happy freedom song of thanks?
I think not.
It is not even one week into the new Year, and already more American soldiers and more Iraqi people have senselessly lost their lives. More will die as you’re reading this.
So 2004 is no different than 2003. Sorry Mr. Dick Clark, my horn didn’t blow and to Times Square I didn’t go ... I just couldn't muster up those three little words. No happy new year, no happy old year. Another year older and what have we learned?
I'll tell you what I’ve learned, and our leaders haven’t:
"War! Good God, what is it Good for?
Absolutely nothin’!
Say it again!
© 2003, by the author.
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Willie Nelson debuts anti-war ballad
Associated Press
Jan. 4, 2004
AUSTIN, Texas — Willie Nelson has premiered his new anti-war ballad at an Austin fund-raising concert for Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. "(Nelson) brought down the house," said Kucinich's media coordinator Susan Mainzer of the Saturday performance. "People were on their feet applauding."
Nelson has said he wrote "What Ever Happened to Peace on Earth" on Christmas Day at the Lake Elsinore, Calif., home of his in-laws.
"There was nothing but bad news, and here it was Christmas Day," Nelson told the Austin American-Statesman last month. "I said, 'There sure are a lot of babies dying and mothers crying,' and (wife) Annie said, 'That sounds like a song.'"
The song asks questions such as, "How much oil is a human life worth?"
It is the second protest song Nelson has written. He often performed his Vietnam-era protest song, "Jimmy's Road," at peace rallies during the 1991 Gulf War.
Kucinich's two-day tour through Austin started Friday. At a Capitol rally Saturday, Kucinich told several hundred people that ending combat in Iraq is among his highest goals.
Asked if his new song might cause a backlash with conservative country music fans, Nelson said, "I sure hope so. I don't care if people say, 'Who the hell does he think he is?' I know who I am."
Last spring, Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines' criticism of President Bush led to boycotts of the group's music.
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Associated Press
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What ever happened to peace on Earth
by Willie Nelson
There's so many things going on in the world
Babies dying
Mothers crying
How much oil is one human life worth
And what ever happened to peace on earth
We believe everything that they tell us
They're gonna' kill us
So we gotta' kill them first
But I remember a commandment
Thou shall not kill
How much is that soldier's life worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
(Bridge)
And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
So I guess it's just
Do unto others before they do it to you
Let's just kill em' all and let God sort em' out
Is this what God wants us to do
(Repeat Bridge)
And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
Now you probably won't hear this on your radio
Probably not on your local TV
But if there's a time, and if you're ever so inclined
You can always hear it from me
How much is one picker's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
But don't confuse caring for weakness
You can't put that label on me
The truth is my weapon of mass protection
And I believe truth sets you free
(Bridge)
And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
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Kucinich for President
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