Wow, I wasn't sure what this was about, but war never entered my mind. I had thought the refrain started "Can't take the math", so the song had something to do with someone taking an administrative job because they didn't have an advanced education. Hence, Secretarial. Haha, I was way off.
I think IGotIt got it, except that the song is more about Dick Cheney, who was the link between the US presidents Bush. Under H. W. Bush, Cheney was Secretary of Defense, leading the nation to the first Iraq war in the early 90s. Under George W. Bush, he was Vice-President, and was rumored to have pulled his superior's strings in order to get the military back to the Middle East to finish the job. The line "let the son in, we've been gunning for promotion" represents the former Cabinet Secretary wanting to move up to VP, and "The motion to defeat it is repeated" would then be the Congressional vote to go back to war after the 9/11/2001 destruction of the World Trade Center.
Furthermore, "We've been divided, we've decided it's a problem we can live with" speaks of the general split between hawkish Republicans and dove-ish Democrats in the US government about going to war. The situation became a non-issue for the military-minded Cheney since he was able to get legislation passed approving an invasion of Iraq in both cases.
The repeated line, "will it happen to me?" refers to the 2007 assassination attempt by a suicide bomber on the Vice President while he was in Afghanistan seeking Pakistan's help in defeating the Taliban. The US at the time had been having difficulty wiping out their foe with traditional Western weapons, i.e. "baby artillery".
"Lady, it's secretarial" may be directed at the US Secretary of State between the Bush presidencies, Madeleine Albright and/or the much Republican-despised wife of the Democratic head of state who served between them, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ironically, she would later become "Secretarial" when president Barrack Obama named her to the same Cabinet post Albright had occupied.
Wow, I wasn't sure what this was about, but war never entered my mind. I had thought the refrain started "Can't take the math", so the song had something to do with someone taking an administrative job because they didn't have an advanced education. Hence, Secretarial. Haha, I was way off.
I think IGotIt got it, except that the song is more about Dick Cheney, who was the link between the US presidents Bush. Under H. W. Bush, Cheney was Secretary of Defense, leading the nation to the first Iraq war in the early 90s. Under George W. Bush, he was Vice-President, and was rumored to have pulled his superior's strings in order to get the military back to the Middle East to finish the job. The line "let the son in, we've been gunning for promotion" represents the former Cabinet Secretary wanting to move up to VP, and "The motion to defeat it is repeated" would then be the Congressional vote to go back to war after the 9/11/2001 destruction of the World Trade Center.
Furthermore, "We've been divided, we've decided it's a problem we can live with" speaks of the general split between hawkish Republicans and dove-ish Democrats in the US government about going to war. The situation became a non-issue for the military-minded Cheney since he was able to get legislation passed approving an invasion of Iraq in both cases.
The repeated line, "will it happen to me?" refers to the 2007 assassination attempt by a suicide bomber on the Vice President while he was in Afghanistan seeking Pakistan's help in defeating the Taliban. The US at the time had been having difficulty wiping out their foe with traditional Western weapons, i.e. "baby artillery".
"Lady, it's secretarial" may be directed at the US Secretary of State between the Bush presidencies, Madeleine Albright and/or the much Republican-despised wife of the Democratic head of state who served between them, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ironically, she would later become "Secretarial" when president Barrack Obama named her to the same Cabinet post Albright had occupied.