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20 March 2003: "And so it begins..."

So the war has started at last. There's not much I can say about it at this point that Iron Maiden didn't already say a decade ago in the song "Afraid To Shoot Strangers" (which was actually inspired by statements made by British troops regarding the previous Gulf War).


Lying awake at night I wipe the sweat from by brow
But it's not the fear
'Cause I 'd rather go now
Trying to visualise the horrors that will lay ahead
The desert sand mound
A burial ground

When it comes to the time are we partners in crime?
When it comes to the time we'll be ready to die

God, let us go now and finish what's to be done
Thy Kingdom come
Thy will be done (on Earth)
Trying to justify to ourselves the reasons to go
Should we live and let live?
Forget or forgive?

But how can we let them go on this way?
The reign of terror, corruption must end
And we know, deep down, there's no other way
No trust, no reason, no more to say

Afraid to shoot strangers
Afraid to shoot strangers

© Steve Harris, 1992

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