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We killed a lot of innocent civilians.
To us every civilian in Baghdad was a terrorist.
They said 'they are now in civilian clothes' that makes everybody free game,
But if they came in our perimeter, we lit 'em up.
And when we would pull the body out, and when we would search the car, we would find nothing.
This took place time and time again. No harm, no foul, that's OK, don't worry about it,
Because this is a new type of war, this is an eradication.
I honestly feel we're committing genocide over here,
I don't believe in killing civilians, and I'm not going to kill civilians for the United States Marine Corp.
To us every civilian in Baghdad was a terrorist.
They said 'they are now in civilian clothes' that makes everybody free game,
But if they came in our perimeter, we lit 'em up.
And when we would pull the body out, and when we would search the car, we would find nothing.
This took place time and time again. No harm, no foul, that's OK, don't worry about it,
Because this is a new type of war, this is an eradication.
I don't believe in killing civilians, and I'm not going to kill civilians for the United States Marine Corp.
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Wow, people aren't very deep these days....
Chris_Ryff, the war in Iraq is actually causing MORE terror. Believe it or not, when we go fuck with people and kill their children they want to fight back. Iraq has nothing to do with the war of (excuse me, on) terror. Saddam Hussein actually gave an effort to aprehend Osama bin Laden. How is Iraq better now? They have chaos and war across the whole country. You cannot go into a foreign country and force a revolution on them, the people have to start the revolution.
Avandir, since when does war create life? I always thought it was sex. How would I be speaking with a British accent without war? If there was never war the world would be extremely different. Rome wouldn't have counquered the majority of the known world, therefor Latin wouldn't be as widespread. English was originally created out of Latin, if there was no war, Latin would never have reached England. How could the people of that area create a language using a large influence from something they didn't know about?
Well anyway, if it wasn't for war we could all live together as a brotherhood of man. I'm not sure why that is so unappealing.
By the way, I'm an American that cares more about people than my corrupt country and government. I just always thought people were more important than the illusion that we call government.
Avandir, you are an ignorant misguided idiot. If you like war so much, go pick a side in Baghdad and see how it goes.
Don't call people ignorant idiots just cus they think differently than you.. Avandir has a point.. even if you don't agree with him, you have no right to call him an idiot.. I perfectly understand his point of view and I think eveything he said does make sense if you think about it, even though I'm against War..
jesus christ strokeslost your idea + ashes of the wake = new arsehole torn. thats scary. lamb of god did exactly wat they wanted to do with this song, which is making civilians feel the effect the war has on people in baghdad. i used to think that metallica - Call Of Ktulu was the best instrumental, and it pains me to say this, but Ashes Of The Wake just owns it. fuct up owns it.
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war is wrong. civilians should not be killed for nothing. when you bomb a coutnry against a tyrant the tyrant should not be the one left alive, and the civilians should not be left dead.
I love this song, even though there are barely any lyrics and most of it is just a huge jam session i still think its the most haunting and extremely powerful song on the album i think thats why they named the album after the song or vice versa. It should be the sountrack to the war in Iraq.
I'm Canadian, and I disagree with almost everything the Americans do....
Sounds like a letter written by an American soldier.
Avandir, you are an ignorant misguided idiot. If you like war so much, go pick a side in Baghdad and see how it goes.
And celine dion is a cunt.