War Watch Wednesdays, #118, March 22, 2023

War Watch Wednesdays, #118, March 22, 2023

 I hope my readers will someday hear Kelly sing his impelling song about our warrior president Bush II and one of his wars, written “the very day we started the first Gulf War.” Here are the lyrics.   --D

Talkin’ Desert Storm  by Kelly Mulhollan

Who would have guessed how the whole world’s fate

woulda’ changed when Saddam Invaded Kuwait?

They’ll forever be arguing the circumstances

but it seems the Amir’d been takin’ chances –

Fixin’ prices, and doing a little slant drilling

And, where there’s oil you’ll always find

that Uncle Sam has found the time

To make a few friends and reserve some places

for Airforce runways and Army bases

Well, just in case, you never know,

Gotta’ keep your eyes on free enterprise

With the Russians consumed by their own shrinking borders

Bush thought  he’d claim him a new world order

He’d show all the world all his fabulous toys

and just for good measure, add a half a million boys

The New World Police!  Gonna’ liberate the Amir!

So Bush set off on heart felt mission,

had to pay off the leaders of a world coalition

Make us look like the world defender

cause some Americans can still remember - Vietnam, didn’t go so well

We’d need good relations,

he even bought off the United Nations

But he still couldn’t sell it, not for jobs, not for freedom,

he’s a rackin’ his a brain for a line that he could feed em’

And appealing to our hearts from the pit of his soul

he finally found one that would fly in the polls

And it was Hitler!  Now that one flew.

And this time, He’s Nuclear. 

And so it goes, that a dead broke nation

billions in debt with a looming recession

Like a mad dog cornered and rearin’ to fight

our F -18s scream off in the night and the war had begun

Stay tuned to your TV sets!

And if it ever ends it may come to be

by the loaded dice of history

That with all our connections, sooner or later

we’ll find them Iraqis another dictator

And there we’ll stand, on our new claimed soil

talkin’ democracy and selling all their oil

For millions, and billions

Till it’s all, Gone

AFSC, Weekend Reading, 3-18-23
Dear Dick, March 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the [2^ND] Iraq War. Today, it’s clear as ever that the U.S. cannot solve the world’s problems with war and military responses. Instead, we must invest in peace, diplomacy, and nonviolent solutions that benefit all people and communities. Read more from AFSC’s Mike Merryman-Lotze, Beth Hallowell, and Mary Zerkel. And join us on March 28 for our webinar “Remembrance and Accountability: The Iraq War at 20” to discuss what we’ve learned and how we can build a different future. Register today.   [You might recall that OMNI’s founding Mission Statement was copied from the AFSC and FCNL.]