The Iraq occupation will continue until American kids stop volunteering to kill Iraqi kids

Thats what it is going to take to end the slaughter. Nothing else will. I can remember watching film (Thats what we had back then. It was physically flown back from Vietnam daily.) of a platoon of US soldiers refusing to kill any more Vietnamese people on the 5:00 news.

That was the beginning of the end.

Don

it's kind of difficult to avoid the military. For some families, the military is the only way to avoid starvation or becoming a criminal.

OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN

The Korean girl lay dying by the frozen icy road
As the soldiers shuffled past her, their bodies hunched against the cold
Snowflakes clung like small white stars to the black blood in her hair
I looked for the rifle in her hands but I saw no rifle there.

The young Vietnamese boy sat wailing by his dead mother’s side
Behind him his home was burning as he sat there terrified
I saw the horror in his eyes the terror and despair
I looked for the rifle in his hands but I saw no rifle there.

Chorus:
No more dead kids, please, no more dead kids
No more, no more, no more

The Kurdish children were lying where the gas had cut them down
Like small bundles of discarded rags in the streets of the silent town
When I saw them I wept and cried “Dear Christ” - half a curse and half a
prayer
I looked for the rifles in their hands, but I saw no rifles there.

The Iraqi family sprawled on the floor in violent death’s blood-soaked release
Beside his dead wife and children the father screamed aloud his grief
Just one more piece of collateral damage that no tears can ever repair
I looked for the rifles in their hands, but I saw no rifles there.

Korea, Rawanda, Vietnam, Palestine and Lebanon
Chechnya and Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan
Other people’s children, sons and daughters, husbands, wives
Yet still we send our children to take other people’s children’s lives.

ERIC BOGLE © APRIL 2003 http://ericbogle.net/lyrics/lyricspdf/otherpeopleschildren.pdf

For those unfamiliar with him Eric is an Australian folk artist (a Scottish immigrant). His two best known anti war songs are probably "No Man's Land" and "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda".


Eileen