IT’S EVENING IN THE DESERT
I’M TIRED AND I’M COLD
BUT I AM JUST A SOLDIER (Just a soldier?!)
I DO WHAT I AM TOLD (Because, apparently, I'm an unthinking automaton.)
WE CAME WITH THE CRUSADERS (I thought they came and left something like 600 years ago)
TO SAVE THE HOLY LAND (Iraq is not the holy land, nor is Afghanistan.)
IT’S CHRISTMAS IN FALLUJAH
AND NO ONE GIVES A DAMN (except us, because we're here. And our families. And SoldiersAngels.)
AND I JUST GOT YOUR LETTER
AND THIS IS WHAT I READ . . . . . . YOU SAID
I’M FADING FROM YOUR MEMORY
SO I’M JUST AS GOOD AS DEAD (Jody is such a whore.)
WE ARE THE ARMIES OF THE EMPIRE (The Klingon Empire? Or star wars?)
WE ARE THE LEGIONNAIRES OF ROME (We're in the roman empire?)
IT’S CHRISTMAS IN FALLUJAH
AND WE AIN’T NEVER COMING HOME (except when my tour is over... and at mid-tour, for leave.)
WE CAME TO BRING THESE PEOPLE FREEDOM
WE CAME TO FIGHT THE INFIDEL (I thought we were the infidel...)
THERE IS NO JUSTICE IN THE DESERT (except the justice we brought with us)
BECAUSE THERE IS NO GOD IN HELL (but there couldn't be a hell without god.)
THEY SAY OSAMA’S IN THE MOUNTAINS
DEEP IN A CAVE NEAR PAKISTAN (and the Paki's won't let us go get him)
BUT THERE’S A SEA OF BLOOD IN BAGHDAD (actually, Baghdad is pretty safe these days. But I'm in Fallujah, aren't I?)
A SEA OF OIL IN THE SAND (Actually, it's beneath the sand, in the shale. Oil Sands are in the Rockies.)
BETWEEN THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES
ANOTHER DAY COMES TO AN END
IT’S CHRISTMAS IN FALLUJAH
PEACE ON EARTH GOODWILL TO MEN
IT’S CHRISTMAS IN FALLUJAH
HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH
IT’S CHRISTMAS IN FALLUJAH
HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH
Six words, BJ:
Christie. Brinkley. dumped. your. hairy. ass.
I give you props for bagging her in the 1st place, and for penning a greatest hits album thirty years ago, but what have you done lately? Piano man is little more than an anthem for drunk coeds to belt out (poorly) as the bar closes after last call.
Here's an even better idea: Take your "New York state of mind" into the headquarters of New York's Forty Second Infantry Division Headquarters, look at their list of soldiers killed on 9/11, look at their division flag, denoting the twin towers, the Pentagon, and a lone star representing a corn field in Somerset, PA, and read their motto "Never Forget."
Then take your happy ass to the big hole in downtown NYFC, and sing your song there.
Go to Arlington, and tell families you see visiting how they have been away from their soldier so long, it was like they were gone already.
And by the way, since we know you aren't a hypocrite, be sure to walk there--no, you can't even take a Prius or a bicycle, since they all use some kind of petroleum product (grease, tires, etc.) And you can only eat locally grown foods, that you yourself purchased at the local farm, from organic farmers, and only foods that are grown as part of the naturally-occurring flora to that area, no evil oil being used to get the seeds to the farmer.
Oh yeah, there's no oil in Fallujah, dumbass.
And from the Heritage foundation (who provides the pocket-sized copies of the constitution I give to all my students.)
Why the Fallujah Operation is Necessary
...the U.S.-led offensive to retake Fallujah came at the direct request of the Iraqi interim government. Every opportunity had been given to the insurgents in the city to lay down their arms and surrender to Coalition forces, but they refused to do so. There was no prospect of holding elections across the whole of Iraq unless the rule of law was established in all of the country’s cities.
Fallujah had become a mass transit camp and command center for thousands of militants from across the Arab world, including Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Fallujah and its satellite towns were acting as staging posts for terrorist activity across the Sunni areas of Iraq. Unless they were retaken, it would've been impossible for the scourge of terrorism to be defeated in the country. The retaking of Fallujah and other insurgent-controlled cities was essential if national elections were to be held in Iraq in January 2005.
Key goals of the American operation were the capture or elimination of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the destruction of the Tawhid wal Jihad group that he headed. Al-Zarqawi had pledged his allegiance to Osama bin Laden and was responsible for the brutal kidnapping and murder of numerous Western and Iraqi hostages. Al-Zarqawi and his followers were also responsible for a large number of suicide attacks in the Baghdad region, which resulted in hundreds of deaths.
The retaking of Fallujah resulted in the following:
Operation Phantom Fury resulted in the reputed death of over 1,350 insurgent fighters. Approximately 95 American Marines were killed, and over 1,000 wounded. After the successful recapture of the city, U.S. forces discovered beheading chambers and bomb-making factories, which were shown to the media as evidence of Fallujah's important role in the insurgency against U.S. forces. They also found two hostages--an Iraqi and a Syrian. The Syrian was the driver for two French journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, who had been missing since August, 2004. The Iraqi's captors were Syrian; he thought he was in Syria until found by the Marines. Chesnot and Malbrunot were released by their captors, the Islamic Army in Iraq, on December 21, 2004.
In December 2006, enough control had been exerted over the city to transfer operational control of the city from American forces to the 1st Iraqi Army Division. During the same month, the Fallujah police force began major offensive operations under their new chief. Coalition Forces, as of May 2007, are operating in direct support of the Iraqi Security Forces in the city. The city is one of Anbar province's centers of gravity in a newfound optimism among American and Iraqi leadership about the state of the counterinsurgency in the region.
In June 2007, Regimental Combat Team 6 began Operation Alljah, a security plan modeled on a successful operation in Ramadi. After segmenting districts of the city, Iraqi Police and Coalition Forces established police district headquarters in order to further localize the law enforcement capabilities of the Iraqi Police. A similar program had met with success in the city of Ramadi in late 2006 and early 2007.
It's Christmas in Fallujah, and the only one who doesn't give a damn is you.
--Chuck
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