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vanessa_ca

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


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 Jul 2025 #1
I believe the total funding for this "war" may be approaching that figure. AloeVera Jul 2025 #4
This is not a war. There is no Palestinian state. LuvLoogie Jul 2025 #2
It is not a war in the conventional sense only genocide. Duncanpup Jul 2025 #3
It was a war for a month or two Johnny2X2X Jul 2025 #15
By no measure is it a "war". AloeVera Jul 2025 #5
All it takes for a war to be a war is two or more belligerent parties going at each other. Beastly Boy Jul 2025 #18
This is the ultimate whitewashing of Hamas. Beastly Boy Jul 2025 #17
It's the removal of impoverished people from expensive beachfront property which rich people want. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #6
Somehow I don't think the rich are lining up to vacation in Gaza. AloeVera Jul 2025 #9
I mean people travel to Germany, the US, and China EdmondDantes_ Jul 2025 #11
Trump and Kushner have expressed an interest in the property. Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #12
That's a ploy, a pretext cooked up between two sociopaths. AloeVera Jul 2025 #16
More than 100 aid organisations warn of 'mass starvation' in Gaza muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 #7
Local journalists working for foreign press are starving too. AloeVera Jul 2025 #21
I'm having trouble posting the pic directly. AloeVera Jul 2025 #22
This? (Graphic content warning) muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 #23
Thank you. I'll try to remember that. AloeVera Jul 2025 #24
The starvation and killings of children are central to Israeli strategy. David__77 Jul 2025 #8
Actually, these are central to Hamas strategy. Beastly Boy Jul 2025 #19
Not loud enough malaise Jul 2025 #10
Recommended. H2O Man Jul 2025 #13
Netanyahu: "If you want them, come take them before we kill them all" dalton99a Jul 2025 #14
It is obscene to see some people defending such atrocities and seeing humanitarians as enemies. . Ping Tung Jul 2025 #20
War isn't murder. Ask Netanyahu. He's got a psalm for that vanessa_ca Jul 2025 #25
Netanyahu and Kushner (scum of the earth) mentioned in the song. Hamas? Nada NoRethugFriends Jul 2025 #34
The Guardian is by no means an unbiased source. NoRethugFriends Jul 2025 #26
Sarcasm? AloeVera Jul 2025 #28
As I said, bot an unbiased source. NoRethugFriends Jul 2025 #32
LMAO! vanessa_ca Jul 2025 #31
IHYAGR NoRethugFriends Jul 2025 #33
Oh. Right. Well, if that's your point of view: muriel_volestrangler Jul 2025 #35
"It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead." Yossarian - Catch-22 Ping Tung Jul 2025 #27
The song was from Vanessa_ca AloeVera Jul 2025 #29
Bravo to her. Biting, sardonic, and sad. Ping Tung Jul 2025 #30
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