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© Project Freeman Music (1990)
The clock is ticking faster every day
The diplomats have said all they can say
We advise, you try and find a compromise
And sanction further sanctions right away
You saw the gulf invasion as a threat
Not as a chance for talks we thought we'd never get
We can see, you've missed an opportunity
Your heading for a fight we'll all regret
We want to drive Iraq out of Kuwait
But ways to save young precious lives I've not heard in debate
The super power has given us eleventh hour
After just eleven weeks of stalemate
What makes this new invasion so unique
Your haste to strike shows up the fact your reasons to are weak
Just for oil, you'd spill young blood on foreign soil
And kill the sons of those for whom you speak
Your big mistake was setting a deadline
And forcing East and West alike to live on borrowed time
Mr. Baker, you'll not be one to meet your maker
Fighting to defend the Western line
So let's remember what we're aiming for
Peace throughout the middle east, for the oil-rich and the poor
With Desert Shield our sanctions' strength would be revealed
And turn us off our rocky road to war
We're sliding down the slippery slope to war
I can't believe we're on The Path to War
A pacifist's protest song, which looking back does seem to fall for some of the deception about sanctions at that time, but which otherwise is sound in suggesting that anything is better than sacrificing lives for what was actually about preventing potential problems with the middle eastern oil supplies, rather than defending a sovereign nation.
There is so much hipocrisy from western governments (well actually most governments!) about their real reasons for going to war, and many of them have really been about oil. Just see the difference in their approaches to conflicts which do or do not involve impact on oil supplies to the west. Very different.
Also see for example 'Where There's Oil (Where There's Not) which looks at the difference of approach a few years later to what was going on in the east of europe
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© Project Freeman Music (1990 Gregorian)