Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Billy Joel & Cass Dillon Performing "Christmas In Fallujah"
Stark reality interjects itself into our Christmas good cheer with this new, implicitly anti-war song recently written by Billy Joel, reminding us of the great gulf between rhetoric and reality in the United States of America, particularly amongst our rulers. But we citizens have been conditioned to this for decades through the techniques of Madison Avenue, where toxic junk can be packaged as the Mona Lisa.
While we are congratulating ourselves on being a pious Christian nation today, untold suffering is going on for the people of Iraq, nevermind all the spin about the Surge. Hundreds of thousands have been slain, many more wounded, millions displaced. Oh yes, some refugees are returning from Syria and Jordan, but that is largely because they have run out of money or been kicked out.
Worst of all is the painful reality of Fallujah, the Guernica of our times, which the American military, financed by us as taxpayers, helped decimate a month and three years ago. You have only to scroll down a few posts from this one to gauge the human carnage wrought in that assault.
So "Christmas in Fallujah" is a splash of cold water in our faces lest we grow too complacent about Iraq, inundated with endless spin doctrines obscuring the truth.
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The song and Cass's vocals both remind me a bit of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. It is very powerful.
Hopefully everyone that does give a damn will be raising their voices even louder with more energy and rightous anger come 2008.
Maybe then the serious presidential candidates will promise to bring our troops home....all of them.
Buzz....Buzz....
Oh children of the sand, we the intelligent children of the West feel your pain. While the Devil carries out his agenda and the ignorant blindly carry out this carnage, My father, the God of Abraham hears our cries of suffering, indoctrination, misinformation, innocent carnage and imperialism and believe me God's justice will be seen here on Earth as well as in Heaven.... Like the original children of Isreal, someday we will all see the promised land and raise our heads to the sun and pay homage and rememberance to these long days of suffering for someday they too will have passed!. God Bless!
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