Oct. 16th, 2004

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Here is my latest song. Your comments are very welcome! If you would like a midi file of the melody, please email me.


(If you like this song, you may also like Valse Macabre by Mark Mandel.)

"Nothing America could have done would have provided al Qaeda... a better recruitment device than our unprovoked invasion of an oil-rich Arab country... It was as if Usama [sic] bin Laden, hidden in some high mountain redoubt, were engaging in long-range mind control of George Bush, chanting 'invade Iraq, you must invade Iraq'."
-- Richard A. Clarke, _Against All Enemies_, p. 246

"The acknowledged gain of the war was that a treacherous and murderous dictator was removed, but the rest has been tragedy and failure. It has stimulated terrorism."
-- Hans Blix

"To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."
-- George H.W. Bush

"Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists? How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?"
-- Dick Cheney, 1991

Fueling the Flames of Jihad
(formerly known as The Osama bin Laden Happy Dance)
copyright (c) 2007, 2008 P. Alan Thiesen

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 G  D  C  D7
 G  D  C  Cm

  G        Cm6        G
 Osama bin Laden's my name.
 E7                 A7
 Global jihad is my game.
     D                    D7
 You blew it, George; you couldn't defeat me.
 G          Cm6        Eb        D7
 Here's the reason you failed completely.
 G         Cm6     G              Cm6
 First you gave me five months to flee
            Em        A7           Cm6      D7
 Before you sent your troops in to look for me.
          G                            D7        G
 Then you gave up the hunt, though you say I'm a nutcase;
     Em       Am        C         D7          G          D C Cm
 You opened a new front, but it's just a wild goose chase.


 G                            D7      G
 Thank you, George Bush for invading Iraq!
        G          E7          A7
 You've broken the egg and you can't put it back.
D                       D7
 Instead of crushing my terrorist band,
     G        Cm6     Eb            D7
 You battled Iraqis defending their land.
   G          Cm6   G          Cm6
 A million or more Iraqis have died,
     Em             A7                     D7
 And still you wage war, in your obstinate pride.
 G                            D7      G
 Thank you, George Bush for invading Iraq
     A7          D7          G G7
 And fueling the flames of jihad.
   C      Fm6     C          Fm6
   John McCain confirmed our fears:
           Am        D7         Fm6     G7
   He sees troops in Iraq for a hundred years.
            C                        E7           A7
 Though you may think it odd, I give thanks to my God
             F           G7          C G Am7 D7 G D C Cm
 That you're fueling the flames of jihad.

Here is the rest of the song )

I first posted this song on October 16, 2004, but I have been updating it to keep up with changing events in Iraq. I rewrote part of the last verse, because it was somewhat speculative, but you can read the original version here:
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