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"The Face of Victory" - Gulf War Soldier song (David Rovics)
by johnx
Sunday, Mar. 28, 2004 at 8:44 PM
"The Face of Victory" - David Rovics. Song about Gulf War Soldier. Live performance from February, 2004 in Vancouver, BC MP3 - 128Kbps - 4minutes 45 seconds. (4:45)
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MP3 at 4.4 mebibytes
"Welcome to the next Oklahoma City (and many other developments). The veterans of war are returning."
The Face of Victory
David Rovics
I lost my job and joined the army
To get an education
And I most surely did
Wanted to have some kinda steady job
Lead a decent life
Support me and my wife and kid
First I was based in Texas
Then it was off to Germany
Then they sent us to Iraq
So many ruined buildings
So many burned up bodies
Twisted railroad track
We were sent off to Fallujah
Told to keep the peace
Amidst such hunger and despair
I was just nineteen
I didn’t have a clue
What we were doing there
Now they say the war is over
And I’m back at home
Here in the land of the free
And you’re looking at the face of victory
Patrolling thru Fallujah
Driving on the rubble
Shattered pavement and shattered glass
They sent us on the search for weapons
We looked in every basement
Never found a single barrel of gas
And when we saw the cities looted
While we watched the oil pipelines
It all began to seem so clear
We were fighting for Exxon
And dying for Chevron
That’s what we were doing here
They told us we’d be welcomed
As troops of liberation
And once again they lied
We got shot at every day
Everywhere we went
A bunch of my buddies died
A rocket launcher hit my tank
Started up a fire
Blew my legs right off of me
And now you’re looking at the face of victory
They sent me back to Michigan
Put some plastic on my stumps
Sent me on my way
And now I roll on down the city streets
Looking at the people
While they turn their eyes away
Down at the Burren
They were talking about the government
And how it’s all a ruse
And I get a little madder
Every time I see the president
Smirking on the evening news
And I think of how they duped me
And so many more good people
And I think of the price we paid
The rich keep getting richer
And the bastards are already scheming
About the next nation they want us to invade
And I just keep on thinking
About this situation
I think of Oklahoma City
Yeah, you’re looking at the face of victory
Created November, 2003
Copyright David Rovics 2003, all rights reserved
Aim high and throw hard!
by johnx
Sunday, Mar. 28, 2004 at 8:44 PM
WOW. That's Something
by 2Beers
Saturday, Apr. 03, 2004 at 2:50 AM
I had no idea that David Rovics was ever in the military and served in the Persian Gulf. He seems to know SSSOOOOO much about the travails of the American soldier. Boy, I'll bet he could go on and on about his time in country, about the tactical strengths and weaknesses of US military planning in the Iraq conflict, about the soldiers' role in rebuilding the Iraqi nation and serving in post-war development efforts, and on and on and on. He really has the ability to speak with authority on the subject, rather than just deliver a single-sided opinion of his view of the military. His songs are so intently specific to the conflict he describes, that of course, he could not be referring to ANYOTHER military experience.
Or then again, maybe he is just another liberal "artist" of marginal talent capitalizing on the current environment of left-wing hate and despair, seeing his one opportunity to play Arlo Guthrie to the hungry crowds lining up for another laddle full of negative reinforcement.
On the mark again 2Beers
by The Whale
Saturday, Apr. 03, 2004 at 8:22 AM
Good point 2Beers. I think David Rovics is grossly under-informed. Maybe he should be a little more open-minded and write “songs of honest significance” instead of what he does write.
It is almost funny (okay, it is funny) that this posting appears at the same time that the U.S. Army reports that those divisions that have fought the past 12 months in Iraq have met virtually every re-enlistment goal. This seems a pretty clear sign that the all-volunteer force remains strong under the stress of frequent deployments and hazardous duty. The Washington Times reported (probably because no other news organization with deeply rooted leftist ties wants to face the same truth) that:
“The Pentagon has been closely monitoring the re-up rate for five Army divisions that fought in Iraq for about a year. Some officials feared the time away from home and the gritty duty would prompt a large soldier exodus. After all, the war on terrorism is unchartered [sic] territory. The 30-year-old volunteer Army has never been this busy in combat.
“But numbers compiled this week for the first half of fiscal 2004 show that those five combat units met, or nearly met, all retention targets for enlisted soldiers--the privates, corporals and sergeants who total 416,000 of the Army's 490,000 active force.
"This tends to rebut armchair critics who said the sky is falling and the vultures are circling and the Army is gong to lose all its troops," said Lt. Col. Franklin Childress, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon. "This is not true. The soldiers get it."
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040401-115508-9161r.htm
Rovics is a self-involved nit-wit. I wish all of these leftist “peace activists” would quit thinking that they speak for the American soldier when they portray the soldier as some weak-kneed simp, easily duped by “The Man” into fighting a war they do not believe in.
Congratulations
by ROBERTO GIARDELLI
Tuesday, May. 18, 2004 at 3:09 AM
andino3@tin.it
Simply fabulous like the TRUTH,the TRUTH is always revolutionary...
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