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The days in the Iraq desert are scorching hot and the nights are cold

I have been sent here to fight and I am not very old

I have taken the training and learned how to use many guns

The war created is over democracy and to avenge the fallen ones

So many fight against freedom and have been crippled or died

On both sides of the battlefield many political leaders have lied

I wonder why I am here in a land with so many buried souls

Oil prices up creating more taxes for government, is this part of my role?

If the wars ended could this collapse the economy for war companies fast?

Would oil still be priced so high and could the military stay large and last?

I wonder what the soldiers who died that live in heaven would say

They traded their life they had for the taxation created and a day’s pay

Finding a job can be tough and many find employment in the war to fight

Military enrollment keeping employment numbers low; is that right?

If other political leaders bombed Iraq without real proof would they be free?

Or would the world stand up and create a war crimes tribunal to see?

Now the war has spread to Afghanistan over terrorism concerns I hear

Pakistan is paid off and so is Afghanistan to insult Taliban bringing repeat terrorism near

When manufacturing went offshore the big corporations made a huge financial score

Western unemployment was increased shrinking government tax base even more

Huge tax breaks given to the rich to keep the corporations creating more

Crippling the country’s way of life leaving the citizen to pay for the score

More cut backs taking away our lifestyle building more frowns than smiles

Increased security crushing liberty, freedoms and rights creating poor lifestyles

Country debt building a new lifestyle beyond the comprehension of the average child

Yet the next generation will pay while the old ones had a war to fill the pockets left wild

No controls on a huge government or how they spend creating more debt in the end

The next generation is in deep trouble and may create a revolution if they don’t bend

Is this why those soldiers had to die; looking down from heaven in the sky

Democrats fight Republicans to see who can get away telling the biggest lie

Waiting for more fellow soldiers to die or turn crazy from stress hearing more lies

Terrorism created by war or anti terrorism created by peace when no one dies