Universal Soldier

There Will Always Be War As Long As There Are Ignorant Pawns...To Con Into Believing The Cause Is Just.

Universal Soldier

By Buffy St. Marie

He's five foot-two, And he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.

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"WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO PEACE ON EARTH"

There's so many things going on in the world
Babies dying Mothers crying
How much oil is one human life worth
And what ever happened to peace on earth
We believe everything that they tell us
They're gonna' kill us
So we gotta' kill them first
But I remember a commandment
Thou shall not kill
How much is that soldier's life worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
(Bridge)

And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
So I guess it's just Do unto others before they do it to you
Let's just kill em' all and let God sort em' out
Is this what God wants us to do
(Repeat Bridge)

And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
Now you probably won't hear this on your radio
Probably not on your local TV
But if there's a time, and if you're ever so inclined
You can always hear it from me
How much is one picker's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth
But don't confuse caring for weakness
You can't put that label on me
The truth is my weapon of mass protection
And I believe truth sets you free
(Bridge)

And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we've been told from our birth
Hell they won't lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth

[Willie Nelson- written for Kucinich]

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"(All war is) killing ones brother."

[Hugo, Victor]

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What is the difference between Collateral Damage and Friendly Fire?
The first is an expression used when US military forces slaughter civilians and the second,
When they slaughter allied soldiers.
The common denominator: slaughter.

[Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey]

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"Bush says he prayed about Iraq.
Unfortunately the voice he heard was not God's
But Bush Sr's."

[Niemus, O Anna]

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"The world is going mad in mutual bloodshed.
And murder, which is considered a crime when people commit it singly, Is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
The offenders acquire impunity by increasing their ravaging."

[(ca. 258) St Cyprian Of Carthage]

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"Really really late term abortions are called war casualties."

[Dee, Dee]

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"Invading Iraq in response to the World Trade Center bombing can be likened to Invading Mexico in response to Pearl Harbor."

[General Eric Shinseki]

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"George Bush says he doesn't believe in abortions
But he is aborting the lives of our soldiers."

[Bill, WW 2 Vet]

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"Look at that wall,
Everybody on that wall died after we knew
That war was a mistake.
(The Vietnam War Memorial)."

[John Kerry]

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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

[Mother Teresa]

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"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war."

[Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi]

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"Peace has its victories no less than war,
But it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."

[-Hubbard, Kin]

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"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion,
Than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace."

[Gide, Andre]

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"One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands.
Lasting peace comes not from force."

[Borenstein, David]

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"An election is coming.
Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest
In prolonging the lives of the poultry."

[Eliot, T.S.]

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"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."

[Hammarskjold, Dag]

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"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."

[Jawaharlal Nehru]

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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
It can only be attained through understanding."

[Ralph Waldo Emerson]

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"We are completely in bed with the Israelis
To the detriment of the Palestinians on the Diane Rehm Show."

[President Jimmy Carter]

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Ronald Bass:
I don't have answers any more, only questions.

Ronald Bass:
Soldiers say 'killing is our business.
Our business is good.'

We (at Arlington Cemetary) say
'burying is our business...our business is good.'

(soldier in the movie Gardens of Stone).

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"I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do."

[Zinn, Howard]

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"Of the 4 million Vietnamese who died after Presidents Eisenhower Johnson Nixon and Ford broke the promises of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt to the people of Vietnam to free them from French colonial rule, at least 21,000 were Operation Phoenix assassinations of political leaders conducted by the CIA with soldier escort support."

[Niemus, O Anna]

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"Our commander said the Viet Cong are farmers by day.. guerillas by night. Look for those who are tired.
So anyone who yawned was getting popped."

[Hersh, Seymour]

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"I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories?but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground."

-Whitehead is a political conservative-

[Whitehead, John]

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"How can you tell the difference between 'contractors' and 'unlawful combatants'?


The size of their paychecks? (members of Blackwater Security were receiving $1000 a day it is reported)."

[Kowt]

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"The mask is dropped... They died for Halliburton."

[Vest, David]

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