![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Song: Fueling the Flames of Jihad
Oct. 16th, 2004 01:02 pmHere 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
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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:
( Read more... )
(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
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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:
( Read more... )
