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Citizen C.I.A. Lyrics
Calling all Americans of above-average intelligence...
College graduates, apply today...
Come decimate dictatorships and overthrow regimes
In exotic far-off places, the vacation of your dreams
You'll assemble puppet governments and play the hand of god
We're an equal-opportunity crime-fighting squad
Citizen CIA
Now I've trained an army for my kids to fight one day
We'll teach them all our secrets and then we'll walk away
We're knee-deep in guerillas, yeah the party never stops
United States of America undercover cop
Citizen CIA
Five weeks paid vacation and a 401K
College graduates, apply today...
In exotic far-off places, the vacation of your dreams
You'll assemble puppet governments and play the hand of god
We're an equal-opportunity crime-fighting squad
We'll teach them all our secrets and then we'll walk away
We're knee-deep in guerillas, yeah the party never stops
United States of America undercover cop
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Great song to protest the war in Iraq. Obviously, it's about how America trains and aids all these foreign countries and as soon as they start to think and act for themselves, America comes in with all this rightgeous bullshit about what these countries have done and wonder where they got these ideas. Americans got pissed off at the contras in Columbia after they eliminated the governments that America told them to eliminate. They get pissed off at Osoma Bin Laden (not that I condone that sort of thing) for using terrorist skills learned from Americans against them. "We know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. We sold them to him. We have the recipts!"
@Dropkick_Rover I think it's more about the war in Afghanistan -- "Now I'll train an army for my kids to fight one day, we'll teach 'em all our secrets and then we'll walk away." is exactly what happened there, we trained/supplied our current enemies to fight the Soviets in the '80s, and when we invaded they used our own tactics and weapons we sold them against us. Oopsie!
@Dropkick_Rover I think it's more about the war in Afghanistan -- "Now I'll train an army for my kids to fight one day, we'll teach 'em all our secrets and then we'll walk away." is exactly what happened there, we trained/supplied our current enemies to fight the Soviets in the '80s, and when we invaded they used our own tactics and weapons we sold them against us. Oopsie!
This is definently a good protest song for the war in Iraq.
There's definitely some commentary in this song about armed forces recruitment policies: how they make the job sound glamorous and exciting to attract recruits.
@Dropkick Rover:
The Contras were not a group in Colombia that the US "got pissed off at." They were a right-wing paramilitary group in Nicaragua backed by the CIA against the Sandinista government, which had overthrown the US-backed Somoza dictatorship.