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vanessa_ca

(355 posts)
25. War isn't murder. Ask Netanyahu. He's got a psalm for that
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 03:23 PM
Wednesday


War isn't murder
Good men don't die
Children don't starve and all the women survive
War isn't murder
That's what they say
When you're fighting the Devil
Murder's okay
War isn't murder
They're called casualties
There ain't a veteran
With a good night's sleep

Let's talk about dead people
I mean a dead people
The dead don't feel honor
They don't feel that brave
They don't feel avenged
They're lucky if they got graves

Call your dead mother
Ask her when she died
It's a deathly silence on the other line
The dead don't talk
But their children don't forget
So in 20 short years
You can live to regret that

War isn't murder
There's money at stake
Hell, even Kushner agrees
It's good real estate
War isn't murder
Ask Netanyahu
He's got a psalm for that
He's got a bomb for you
War isn't murder
It's an old desert faith
It's a nation state sanctioned righteous hate

Let's talk about dead people
I mean a dead people
War isn't murder
It's the vengeance of God
If you can't see the bodies
They don't bloat when they rot
And the flies don't swarm
And the children don't cry
If war isn't murder
Good men don't die

So in a short 20 years
Where you vacation the Strip
Try not and think about the dead
And have a nice trip

War isn't murder
Let's all give thanks
I saw it all in a movie
Give it up for Tom Hanks
War isn't murder
They don't ship out the poor
And the bullets they fire
Ain't part of the cure
War isn't murder
Land is a right
But the banks called dibs
It's something you can't fight

Let's talk about dead people
I mean a dead people
The dead don't feel honor
They don't feel that brave
They don't feel avenged
They're lucky if they got graves

Call your dead mother
Ask her when she died
It's a deathly silence on the other line
The dead don't talk
But their children don't forget
So in 20 short years
You can live to regret
That

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And the U.S. gives Israel $40 billion a year. Duncanpup Wednesday #1
I believe the total funding for this "war" may be approaching that figure. AloeVera Wednesday #4
This is not a war. There is no Palestinian state. LuvLoogie Wednesday #2
It is not a war in the conventional sense only genocide. Duncanpup Wednesday #3
It was a war for a month or two Johnny2X2X Wednesday #15
By no measure is it a "war". AloeVera Wednesday #5
All it takes for a war to be a war is two or more belligerent parties going at each other. Beastly Boy Wednesday #18
This is the ultimate whitewashing of Hamas. Beastly Boy Wednesday #17
It's the removal of impoverished people from expensive beachfront property which rich people want. Irish_Dem Wednesday #6
Somehow I don't think the rich are lining up to vacation in Gaza. AloeVera Wednesday #9
I mean people travel to Germany, the US, and China EdmondDantes_ Wednesday #11
Trump and Kushner have expressed an interest in the property. Irish_Dem Wednesday #12
That's a ploy, a pretext cooked up between two sociopaths. AloeVera Wednesday #16
More than 100 aid organisations warn of 'mass starvation' in Gaza muriel_volestrangler Wednesday #7
Local journalists working for foreign press are starving too. AloeVera Wednesday #21
I'm having trouble posting the pic directly. AloeVera Wednesday #22
This? (Graphic content warning) muriel_volestrangler Wednesday #23
Thank you. I'll try to remember that. AloeVera Wednesday #24
The starvation and killings of children are central to Israeli strategy. David__77 Wednesday #8
Actually, these are central to Hamas strategy. Beastly Boy Wednesday #19
Not loud enough malaise Wednesday #10
Recommended. H2O Man Wednesday #13
Netanyahu: "If you want them, come take them before we kill them all" dalton99a Wednesday #14
It is obscene to see some people defending such atrocities and seeing humanitarians as enemies. . Ping Tung Wednesday #20
War isn't murder. Ask Netanyahu. He's got a psalm for that vanessa_ca Wednesday #25
Netanyahu and Kushner (scum of the earth) mentioned in the song. Hamas? Nada NoRethugFriends Wednesday #34
The Guardian is by no means an unbiased source. NoRethugFriends Wednesday #26
Sarcasm? AloeVera Wednesday #28
As I said, bot an unbiased source. NoRethugFriends Wednesday #32
LMAO! vanessa_ca Wednesday #31
IHYAGR NoRethugFriends Wednesday #33
Oh. Right. Well, if that's your point of view: muriel_volestrangler Wednesday #35
"It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead." Yossarian - Catch-22 Ping Tung Wednesday #27
The song was from Vanessa_ca AloeVera Wednesday #29
Bravo to her. Biting, sardonic, and sad. Ping Tung Wednesday #30
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