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<\/td>\n\nLyrics and music by Bruce Barthol \u00a9 2003<\/span>I remember back, before we whacked Iraq
\nI was watching the news, were we gonna attack?
\nA man named Richard Perle came on and talked
\nHe said going to Baghdad would be a cakewalkCakewalk to Baghdad,
\nCakewalk to BaghdadIt went real easy,
\nTook a couple of weeks
\nTore down that statue
\nSet those Saddamites free
\nThe Frogs and the Krauts, they feel real bad,
\nThey missed out cakewalkin’ into Baghdad<\/p>\n
Cakewalk to Baghdad,
\nCakewalk to Baghdad<\/p>\n
Next we’re gonna cakewalk into Teheran,
\nGonna cakewalk to Damascus and Pyong-yin-yang
\nWhen we strut on in,
\nEverybody’s gonna cheer
\nThey’ll be wavin’ old glory,
\nWe’ll have kegs of beer, just like that…<\/p>\n
Cakewalk to Baghdad,
\nCakewalk to Baghdad<\/p>\n
Cakewalk to Baghdad,
\nCakewalk to Baghdad<\/p>\n
Now moms and dads don’t worry ’bout
\nYour soldier boys and girls
\nWe’re just sending them cakewalkin’
\nAround the world
\nWhen the coffins come home and the flag unfurls
\nCheer for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Perle<\/p>\n
Cakewalk to Baghdad,
\nCakewalk to Baghdad<\/p>\n
Do you think we’ll see those Bush boys patrollin’ the streets
\nLike our soldiers got to do in Basram and Tikrit?
\nWe gonna see Richard Perle cakewakin’ ’round
\nThe streets and alleys of Baghdad town?<\/p>\n
Cakewalk to Baghdad,
\nCakewalk to Baghdad<\/p>\n
Easy to cakewalk in … not so easy to cakewalk out.<\/i><\/p>\n
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http:\/\/www.countryjoe.com\/cjb.htm#cakewalk<\/a><\/p>\n If you go to this page and click on Richard Perle’s face, you can listen to the song (I love it) via Real Player, and there is a version of it available through iTunes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In any case, the French have Vietnam experiences of their own on which to base a certain sense of caution, along with the nastiness of the war in Algeria leading up to the Evian Accords of 1962, along with a bit of a misadventure in Rwanda in 1994 and the recently ended Afghan sortie.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Looking at the multiple recidivism of so many countries when it comes to intervention in foreign countries, we perhaps come to the conclusion that this is part of the scheme to drive the economy based on blowing things up, hopefully someone else’s stuff and in someone else’s yard, but as long as we can call them terrorists, we’re good to go. Meanwhile there are rumblings in the French press that the bigwigs in Bamako, on whose behalf our C-17 is ferrying French stuff to Mali to be blown up, are more concerned about the independence movement among the Tuaregs of the northeast than they are about Al-Quaeda au Maghreb Islamique in the northwest (who knows?) and perhaps the French have their own little agenda relating to gas, oil and uranium resources in the northern desert section of Mali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over at the Globe and Mail, we have this clever fellow Jeffrey Simpson who’s keen to tell us that those French should be careful about undertaking foreign adventures from which they may have more trouble extricating themselves than they had … Continue reading