Roy Zimmerman

Saddam Shame
Thank God we finally had us a warit's what Neocons have been hankering for.Rivers of gore we can wave the flag o'erFlaunting our Superpower statusWringing our hands saying, "Why do they hate us?"Thank God, we're finally nabbed you, SaddamYou horrible threat to our dear Uncle SamAfter you spent nine months eating goat on the lamWhile we liberated your countrySlashing and burning and saving just one tree...The Minis-tree of OilSaddam shame, Saddam shameWe all had to learn your damn nameOnly three questions remainWho's sane? Who's sane? Who's sane?Iraq is the front in the war against terror Might be because we invited them there or Perhaps there's some terrible clerical error Maybe a faulty equation Like 911 equals U.S. invasionWe are not nation builders we know that for certainSongtexteWe're building the sovereign State of Halliburton Ignoring the guy there behind the big curtain Drivin' around feelin' groovy A star spangled banner on every SUVSaddam shame, Saddam shameWe all had to learn your damn nameOnly three questions remainWho's sane? Who's sane? Who's sane?We put you on trial for a jury of your peersTwelve bloody dictators with no careersTo decide how you'll spend your retirement yearsAnd your legacy, now that you've fallenHitler, but littler, or Stalin, but a small'nIt's an interesting story how we came to hate youIf you'd never existed, we'd have to create youAnd send Donald Rumsfeld to interrogate you...and fellate you"You were ruthless and cruel, and you knew itYou oppressed that whole nation, now how did you do it?"Saddam Shame, Saddam Shame"That's my Donald Rumsfeld impersonation. I'm an abstract impressionist."Hussein, Hussein, HusseinWe shocked 'em and awed 'em and went to the showers"Mission Accomplished," hey, where's all the flowers?The tyrant is vanquished and Baghdad is ours -I mean, theirsthe incoming Iraqi governmentor as they say: the Iraqi government - Incoming!Still, you'd have to say somebody screwed yaIf your travel agent sent you to FallujahNow we've learned our lesson, it's hard to conductA war when the pre-war intelligence suckednow some say the country is totally fu...farfrom anything a well-meaning superpower could ever hope to reconstruct.But don't try to say we're not winninghang in there it's only the 23rd inning.And it's a double beheaderand the new game is just beginning.Saddam shame, Saddam shameWe all had to learn your damn nameOnly three questions remainWho's sane? Who's sane? Who knows? Aus Songtexte Mania