Lowkey - Lowkey on Afghanistan Part 2 lyrics

This war does not in any way serve the people of this country's interests We have absolutely nothing to gain from invading and occupying another country which the British have failed at occupying many times before Saddam Hussein, though a despicable murderous tyrant, posed absolutely no threat to the people of this country The Taliban, though a group of abhorrent oppressive maniacs, never posed any threat to the people of this country People die in wars People are orphaned in wars People are imprisoned in wars People get raped in wars People k** in wars And people are haunted by their experiences of war But some people do strive in wars Some people do profit in wars Arms companies like BAE Systems and Lockheed make billions from wars The oil companies have made billions from these wars, but the people of this country do not gain anything from these wars Not the British people Not the American people And not the Afghan people There is nothing charitable about bombing somebody's country and occupying it People have argued that this war was waged in order to defend the people of this country from possible terrorist attacks On the contrary, this war has endangered British citizens all over the world Not only has it cost British taxpayers millions of pounds, it has taken the lives of over 200 British soldiers and stolen the humanity of countless others Rather than deter terrorist attacks, this occupation, like the Iraq one, has only endangered this country There was a terrorist attack on British soil in 2005, but that was only after the British occupations of these countries had been underway for years already The only lesson that can be learned from such events is that Britain's tireless support of the American empire and it's imperialist wars have hugely endangered the people of this country While America's bombing has spread to the Swat Valley in Pakistan with Obama's remote control drones dropping bombs which have displaced at least two million and k**ed many, Gordon Brown has pledged to send more British troops to Afghanistan to k** and die That is all that is required of the people that are sent there k** and die, while sacrificing your own humanity But don't ever ask "Why?" These soldiers are being told that this war is for the good of their country, and more worryingly, for the good of humanity Where those humans that sent you to war will not lose one minute of sleep over your d**h, they want you to be robots, and that is all If you are lucky, you will k**, and be k**ed If you are unlucky, you will k**, and survive, only to live the rest of your life tortured by your past, but for what? It is not for the good of your country, the United Kingdom, or Great Britain The Queen couldn't care less about your life Her grandson Harry did join the Army, just long enough to refer to one of his fellow troops as a packy, and the people those soldiers are supposedly liberating, as ragheads The prince Harry episode is actually indicative of the indoctrination that is vital in this process of justification They do not want their robots to ask questions "Shut up, take a gun, and k** some ragheads" That's all this country requires of it's robots But, the truth is, throughout this process, the only person dehumanized is the British soldier himself So when they tell you to "support the troops," the only real way of supporting the troops is by bringing them home now and today This war does not serve the British people It only harms us It does not serve the soldiers themselves It only harms them The question is, "How can it possibly serve the interests of this country?" An interesting way of working out whose interests British Prime Ministers were serving when in power, is to look at who they take jobs for, after there term is finished For John Major, it was The Carlyle Group, a company with very close ties to the Bush family For Tony Blair, it was JP Morgan, a company who made millions from the war in Iraq Who will it be for Gordon Brown? Who is Gordon Brown working for? That is my question, because it certainly isn't the British people