Show Me
BY LINDSAY VALENTIN I OCTOBER 21, 2008

Show me the war against terrorism
Show me Iraqui children swaddled and holding AK-47s
Show me burqua'd women screaming
and US soldiers in camo "protecting our interests"

Show me mud-slung houses burning
Show me Shiites raging
Show me a mosaic of Saddam
Show me an American fighter breaking a mosaic of Saddam
To pieces with a sledge hammer

Show me the Al-Quaida preaching
Show me kamikaze fighters searing through skies
Show me a London bus bombing,
Terrorism!
Show me how to sleep at night

Show me the enemy
Show me the way to hate
Show me the towers burning
Show me what W. has to say

Show me red dust rising majestic from night bombs
Show me coffins with red, white and blue rolled out over them
Show me heroes and show me foes
Show me our nations woes

Show me gas prices at $4.53
Show me levees once again breaking
Show me Bush saying to drill more, more
Show me the oil-fields burning off-shore

Show me the Hummers and SUV's
Show me Astin Martins and Mercedes
Show me what it is im workin for
Show me the destruction, more, more

Show me US parents howling for war
Show me US parents crying over lost daughters and sons
Show me the list that continues ascending
Show me George Bush saying more, more

Show me the pumps that are closing down
Show me the rubbles that used to be towns
Show me the freedom, the red white and blue
Show me why they hate us and we hate them too

Show me the money
Show me the green
$506 billion dollars
On these war machines

Show me the houses US folks are losing
Show me Iraquis our soldiers are abusing
Show me innocent Persian men searched in our subways
Show me the US training camp the terrorists were trained in

Show me the babies Depleted Uranium deformed
Show me the proud way the uniform is worn
Show me the heroes and show me their foes
Show me our nations woes

Show me white phosphorous falling on Fallujah
Show me confederates singing hallelujah
Show me soccer played with Iraqui head balls
Show me how the mustard gas falls and appalls
Show me the websites to show me shut down
Show me the silence falling all around

Show me the news channels keeping mum
Show me the faces of daughters and sons
Show me the apathy that comes with war
Show the US soldiers what it is they're fighting for

Show me the fossils now turning to fuels
Show me the remains of the soldiers returned
Show me the double-amputees and burn-scarred flesh
Show me the soldiers, pushed along mules

Show me our ignorance, show me our fate
Show me how to stop hope, show me how to hate

Show me the weapons of mass destruction buried there
Show me Afghanis burning, from toe to hair
Show me bush proclaiming more, more
Show me Cindy Sheehan camping at the White House door

Show me the rapes at Abu Ghraib
Show me Iraqui limbs being torn apart
Show me death by drowning in concrete
Show me soldiers bearing Purple Hearts

Show me democracy in Iraq
Show me the way of shock and awe attack
Show me children gut-bleeding, more, more
Show me the oil-fields burning off-shore

Show me Saddam hung in effigy
Show me bin Laden, but he's not to be seen
Show me revenge for the WTC attacks
Show me what this story lacks and it lacks

Show me the trench they dug up Hussein in
Show me again why we can't find bin Laden
Show me who's accountable, and what for
Show me what our country is in store for

Show me rising gas prices with no relief
Show me rising food prices with no relief
Show me rising rent prices with no relief
Show me more, more, all of the grief

Show me how to keep hope, show me the way
Show me a valid reason our soldiers die today
Show me the new factory of WMD's
Show me photos of a nice Mercedes

Show me where the truth is, show me why
Show me a valid reason children must die
Our side, their side
Show me why
Show me a valid reason children must die

Show me Bush lying, more, more
Show me the land of the free and the brave
Show me Bush impeached for the words that he swore
Show our soldiers just what it is they're fighting for

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