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Bruce should put it out as a single and record Feel-Like-Iām-Fixin-To-Die Rag as the B-Side. These paper tigers need to leave Bruce alone; we donāt tell Charlie Daniels or Toby Keith what to sing.
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They didnāt like it because itās true and it hurt they little fee fees.
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The song is actually more relevant today than when it was written, especially the second verse. Tax cheats were prevalent back then but no where near where they are today. GE makes billions off of war but miraculously pays little or no taxes. It aināt me indeed.
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I did my time in Vietnamā¦and as I remember it anti-war songs were very popular. Do the phony āpatriotā draft dodging assholes think folks like being in the arm pit of the world watching their buddies die?
No veteran needs anyone to speak for him. I can do that for myself. Fuck you very much.
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I wish I could have told John Ashcroft what not to singā¦
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For those who missed out.
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SO, ExTREME LIBtard chickenHAWK Writes SONG agAINST out TrOOPs vaLOR and ANOther EXtreME libtard plaYS soNG at CONCert CELEBrating our TROOPS vaLOR aND Where IS THE LIBtard OUtrage??? So MUch FOR ExtreME libTARDs whO doNāt eveN know The MEanINGs of Their OWN SONGS11111!1!!!one!!!1!1
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Amen, Boss. Amen!
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A Salute to the Troops: In Performance at the White Houseā
This was on Nov. 6th
Guess who was thereā¦John Fogerty singing Fortunate Son.
The audience was military familiesā¦
No one complainedā¦
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The guy who wrote it served in Vietnam, did you? If so, you must not have understood the words or meaning, because it is in no way insulting to vets, just the chickenhawks who send others to do the fighting, while they stay home and reap millions in profits. There were some who took their anti-stupid war feelings out on the troops, and they were wrong to do so, but to paint a guy like john Fogarty as an āextreme libtard,ā against the troops is just as wrong. Many who wrongly took out their anger on the troops have apologized many times, and I think you should also, for this rant against a very thought provoking song written by a real decent guy.
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ā¦because they are fully aware the rich peopleās kids didnāt serve.
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Pssstttttā¦
Eustace is satire.
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As I read somewhere else, itās not an anti-war song (and whatās with being anti-war?), itās anti-class, in that itās the sons of rich fathers who got all the deferments they wanted (like some prominent Republicans) while the poor was shipped off to be killed. That war would have been over much, much sooner if the rich kids had been sent over along with poor.
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Speak for yourself. I have often been heard to scream shut the fcuk up at the radio when their songs come on (except The Devilā¦).
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Hilariously, the umbrage takers have uniformly been exactly the kind of people the song was written about. The ones who never would have enlisted and who would have had daddy pulling every possible string to avoid the draft.
Real vets say stuff like:
āI hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.ā
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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He served in the army reserve and never was in country. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Or this:
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902ā1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
ā Maj Gen. Smedley Butler
Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrā¦this:
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small āinsideā group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
ā Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
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The PEOple THAt care THE MOSt COMPLained: The ONEs that CARE ABOUt our TROOPS vaLOR care that IT Was INSULTINg tO THem THAT THE sONG dINdāt REcogNIZE hOW mucH theY care ABOUT the VALOr of OUR trOOPS and AMericaN excePTIONALISM. AnOTHer swING and a MISS from aNOther LIBtard!!11!!!one!!!1!!!
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Poe is Poe, and I spent a couple of weeks cracking the code myself when Eustice first showed up in his original incarnation, but for the life of me, I canāt understand how the !!!1111one!!!11 isnāt a dead giveaway.
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