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From: "joe andress" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Terry Jones (from Monty Python) on War


> Well done Cary, I agree with many of your points. Only, instead of
thowning in a couple nickels, I think those countries will break their necks
running in with their > soup spoons and hands out to make a profit of the
mess. And they will expect the U S to pay for every thing.

> And, they will be definitely looking to steal as much oil as they can get.
The really sad thing is that the U.S govenment will allow them to do it.

For a European, it's frightening to know that people in the USA really think
in this what's-right-for-America, let's-go-out-and-put-the-world-to-rights
way.

Can you not see that such thinking disqualifies you from ever having a
balanced viewpoint here?

But hell, you won't listen to me, because I'm from 'over there'. Though I
guess you won't come and put us right until you've fixed the rest of the
world, at least.

But if you won't listen to me, at least listen to one of your own, Jackson
Browne. I think he has it nailed pretty good......and note that date at the
end.

Plus ca change, plus ca le meme chose......

LIVES IN THE BALANCE

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire...

(c) 1986 SWALLOW TURN MUSIC, ASCAP


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Roy Brown

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