America Owes An Apology
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We can't mold the world to serve our interests, We're supposed to be standing for truth and justice. Tell the Shiites, the people of Iran, We apologize for installing the Shah and for the Savak's torturing. Tell the homeless Palestinians we're sorry for the murdering Of innocent women and children At Sabra and Chatilla. Tell the Guatemalan Indians living in poverty, That we are so very sorry For placing in power a repressive regime, That did what we wanted back in the fifties. America owes an apology to the American Indians for stealing their country, To the people behind Allende for the overthrow of Chile. We should respect the Third World's sovereignty. Shame on those of us Who protested the Vietnam War For not protesting hard enough. Shame on the people who resisted us. Most shame of all for people who did nothing. Never fight for your country unless you are sure That a powerful enemy threatens to land on your shores. Keep home your armies, there'll be no wars. Tell the people of Nam we are sorry From the bottom of our hearts. Our Sectetary of State, under Eisenhower, In a gross display of arrogance of power, Denied Ho Chi Minh sovereignty over Vietnam proper. Our boys weren't soldiers, they were unwitting cops, Arresting the life of the poor, not the spread of Communists. Say you're sorry to hundreds of Iraqian babies Who died from disease, starvation, and dehydration, When we embargoed food and medicine to all Iraqis, During our campaign to bomb them into submission. Could we have spared the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi farmers, Who were drafted and put on the front lines to die in their bunkers, Whom we bombed and buried in mass graves in the Syrian desert? Elite Forces we allowed to escape were the rapists and murders. Do you like anti-Americanism? Do you want credibility or to be a world leader? Then give the world an apology, Especially the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, For introducing man his doom through a nuclear catastrophe. What could of been on President Truman's mind? Was he giving a warning for the world to tow our line? Did he see he was threatening the survival of mankind? We didn't need to counter the Russian's Revolution in 1917. We could have lived in peace and harmony with socialist countries. Our leaders wanted to stem the tide of socialism's popularity. We should by now be willing to admit, We were wrong to support the abuses of China's Chiang Kai-Shek. We started the Cold War and an ideological rivalry That overshadowed all issues, it was the curse of the century. Airwaves Promise I Will, Promise I Won't Halitosis Move Over Humanity Good Morning World Back to the main page
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