Top Obama foreign policy aide Richard Holbrooke believes Obama’s escalation of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan “will last a long time – longer than the United States’ longest war to date, the 14-year conflict (1961-75) in Vietnam.”
And new VP Joe Biden — a chickenhawk like Obama — says U.S. casualties in Afghanistan are going to go up.
So, it’s time to update that old anti-Vietnam War classic song, by Country Joe and the Fish (original lyrics here; YouTube audio here):
Feel Like I’m Fixing to Die Rag (Afghan Version)
Well, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Obam needs your help again.
He’s got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Afghanistan
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We’re gonna have a whole lotta fun.And it’s one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn,
Next stop is Afghanistan;
And it’s five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain’t no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we’re all gonna die.Come on Wall Street, don’t be slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go
There’s plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of its trade,
But just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on a wedding throng.
Can you please link us to the place in your past writings where you sang this to Bush & Chaney about Iraq? Both Chicken Hawks. You accuse Biden & Obama for being chicken hawks, but Obama’s kids are too young, and Biden’s kid IS in the service. WHat about the Bush & Chaney offspring?
Excuse the spelling error. I was just too worked up. I will now make it a point to remember which writers on this blog to simply disregard.
Response to “I’m Up to Here”:
I spent 8 years calling Bush and Cheney chickenhawks. 10 months ago I wrote on my blog: “It’s also worth pointing out that this war was designed by chickenhawks — Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Condi, Perle, Scooter — who, if they even heard a car backfire, would micturate their pants.” Here’s the link:
http://johnseilerblogs.com/?p=624
And “chickenhawk” refers to a specific person, not their kids or other family members.
John Seiler
John, please wait for Vern to return before butchering any more lyrics.
#1 & #2 I’m up to here, don’t worry about the typo. Strong emotion does that. I would rather read a comment by someone who cares about what they are writing than one from one of these types that just criticize along partisan lines and have no personal feelings for what they are writing. I try to catch myself when I do that now.
Besides, blowing off steam is part of what makes this such a worthwhile activity, that and improving my writing.
Hey John, I poked a little fun your way in your post above, but your musical ditty above really took me back about 40 years, and your comments about the fools put us in these last two wars really piqued my curiosity. Tell us about yourself, where you come from, where you’ve been, what you’ve done.
Right on John. I loved it. Keep it up.
#6 SAHS teacher:
Well, I wrote editorials for the OC Register for 19 years, till 2006, when I took a buyout. I’m from Michigan. I was in the U.S. Army 4 years, 1978-82, a Russian linguist.
I support the limited-government vision of America’s Founding Fathers. Which means I oppose all these wars the government tricks us into supporting.
When I was a kid, Nam was raging, and everybody I knew supported it, including me. I lived in a working class area and was from a working class family, even though after WW II my father, a tool-and-die maker, used the GI bill to become a lawyer, then a judge.
But later, I realized Nam was just another imperialist disaster the government and its ruling elite got us into. The Bushes did the same in Iraq and Afghanistan. Clinton did it in Haiti and the Balkans. Obama is doing it in Afghanistan.
It’s a good question whether any of our liberties whether can be recovered.
It’s a little early to lay the mess in Afghanistan at Obama’s feet.
John, I want to be a little more charitable to JFK and LBJ, about the idiocy of the VietNam war. I believe it really was a sincere concern about the Red Chinese Army rolling on down though Indonesia and Australia. If we and the French had stayed out of there after WWII, the Viets would have done that for us, which in fact they did in 1974, when they expelled the several million ethnic Chinese from VietNam and fought the Red Army to a standstill. 50,000 dead American youth … all from an ignorance of culture and history. I’m pretty liberal, but I’ll read your posts with interest.