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If You Cannot Find Osama, Bomb Iraq

Sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It".

If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq
If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq
If the terrrorists are frisky, Pakistan is looking shifty, North Korea is too risky, bomb Iraq.

It's pre-emptive non-agression,bomb Iraq
Let's prevent this mass destruction, bomb Iraq
They've got weapons we can't see, and that's good enough for me, cause it's all the proof I need, so bomb Iraq.

If you never were elected,bomb Iraq
If your mood is quite dejected, bomb Iraq
If you think Saddam's gone mad, with the weapons that he had, and he tried to kill your dad, then bomb Iraq.

If your corporate fraud is growing, bomb Iraq
If your ties to it are showing, bomb Iraq
If your politics are sleazy, and hiding that ain't easy and your manhood's getting queasy, bomb Iraq.

If we have no allies with us, bomb Iraq
If we think someone has dissed us, bomb Iraq
So to hell with the inspections, let's look tough for the elections, close your mind and take directions, bomb Iraq.

Fall in line and follow orders, bomb Iraq
For our might knows not our borders, bomb Iraq
Disagree? We'll call it treason, let's make war not love this season, even if we have no reason, bomb Iraq.

Author unknown, although it seems to be an unnamed participant of Reenhead.com, or perhaps s/he adapted it from another source.

Check Tom Tomorrow's site, where he stakes first claim, complete with history and cool comics.

Thanks, Camilo. Here are the details for you meme-trackers out there.

well, this is a really nice site. i think now I shall have to put your blog on my list of blogs i visit.

it's about time, eh?

keep it up, prentis.

Yeah, Lindsey snagged that from somewhere. It's been making the rounds.

highly amusing (if it wasn't so serious) :-)

This song is no good, get a job
you dirty hippie

many a true word spoken in jest...

So are the many true words those of the song, or "Joe L"'s assertion that I'm a dirty hippie who should get a job?

did you complain when clinton sent troops to kosovo too?

you got the balls mate to tell the truth on bastard`s face

i SAY bOMB THE ****** ANY WAY YOU CAN

Better run Faster - YOU **** ******* ******* !!!!

Sad thing is, "WTC", the longer the escapade in Iraq goes on the clearer it becomes that the only people who are enjoying it are Osama and his pals. Seeing the US bogged down in the occupation of Iraq is a payoff for Al Qaeda beyond their wildest dreams.

Prentiss, did you see or hear about the stories last week that progress in Iraq is much better than what's being reported? I am wondering whether I imagined seeing that since I can't find any links other gov't websites, natch.

I thought that take on things was interesting, although I wasn't quite convinced. I'll do some digging to see whether I can find some links for ya.

I have just recently started perusing your blog, but I had to post to tell you that I thought the song lyrics were funny! I read today that several newspapers have carried the same letter from soldiers who are in Iraq. I wish they didn't have to be there.

I don't know if it was the same story, Christina, but I did hear a report on Bush's recent claim that things aren't so bad in Iraq, echoed by US administrator Paul Bremer. As far as I can Bush's and Bremer's statements are empty spin. But even if you believe that they are slowly getting the electricity turned back on and starting reconstruction projects as they claim, that doesn't do anything to take away from the drumbeat of car bombs and ambushes killing US troops and US-organized Iraqi police (and invariably plenty of civilian bystanders as well). I don't see any way to spin that level of daily violence as "not so bad".

Furthermore, supposing conditions in Iraq were slowly improving, it wouldn't take away from the main point of the silly and satirical doggerel I posted above: that the war on Iraq was a sideshow to the War on Terror and ultimately counterproductive to our stated goal of going after the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks.

I agree about the sideshow. And after hearing about how many people have been taken in by Bush's babble, as well as reading about the military propaganda (you know it's going on that we don't know about, but it's scary to see it out in public), my nightmares are even worse.

Which doesn't change the fact that a lot of people are still supportive of and optimistic about what's going on in Iraq right now. (Motto - I am not a lot of people)

I've read all of the messages on this site; I'm 21 years old and, personally, I think we should nuke the mother f---ers.
If Bin Laden and Hussein are enjoying all of this, let's see how much they enjoy having a nuke dropped on their asses. That song's funny, and I think it's how we should react.
We're using all of these weapons, but we're not using the right ones, because, apparently, those goat-humpers are still alive.

I'm a member of the LDS church, but when it comes to those two; I'll throw away the scriptures and get a grenade launcher.

So how do you propose to nuke them when we don't even know where they are? Or do you plan to H-bomb the whole region from Syria to Pakistan and kill a few hundred million people? How many times over would you like for us to outdo Hitler in return for a few thousand American deaths?

I said Bin Laden is enjoying it, not Saddam Hussein. The two stand for completely different things. They're bitter enemies with entirely different goals -- or were until we drove them into the same corner; they may be thinking about making friends now.

I and my band have turned that song into a proper song we have recorded it and now have copyright over it, as we said we wrote it!! so get this off or else i will sue u on the grounds of the copyright act!

Well, Mr. anonymous FB, if you're serious please have your lawyer send me a letter and I'll be happy to comply.

Although I have to say that if I understand what you're saying, you took Tom Tomorrow's lyrics and "turned [them] into a proper song". In that case the person who should be claiming copyright infringement is Tom Tomorrow.

Maybe more to the point, if you are really interested in either (a) promoting your band or (b) bashing Bush, you ought to be encouraging people to post the lyrics, not discouraging them. You didn't even identify your band -- how am I supposed to rush out and buy your CD?

If I've misunderstood and you are really the original author of these lyrics, send me a proper (non-anonymous) request by e-mail or paper mail and I'll take them down right away. It doesn't even have to be from a lawyer if you're nice about it...

Hilarious and so true