A Song for Gen. Petraeus

Gen. Petraeus will be answering questions on Capitol Hill this week, and since it's the congress and not the press doing the asking, there might even be some hard ones.

My personal recommendation would be to ask about the toll that repeated deployments are taking on our troops. If you can stomach it, read about soldiers coming home after spending 19 of 21 months in combat and not being able to pick their children out of the welcome home line, and other happy tales in the sad-but-true reports that Veterans For America released last week about repeated deployments -- a cycle that won't get any better without further troop reductions.

Anyways, less talk, more rock. Enjoy our song for the Petraeus hearings.

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Q & A

In the year and change since the upswing
With circumstances largely in the dark
The questioners are lining up with the clipboards
I'm sure you'll hit their softballs out of the park

So get some magic markers and draw a happy face
And cross out all your notes from the past few days
The counter hits 4,000 and it counts and counts away
If they had a chance to ask, what would they say?
In Q & A

You'll recommend against reductions
I'm afraid it's more than they can stand
Someone get a page to bring you water
To wash that blood off of your master's hands

A confident demeanor and the medals on your coat
Give googly eyes to the fourth estate
If someone happens to ask you if it's worth the price we've paid
When you answer think of those who've gone away
In Q & A

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Comments

[levine]

AMAZING lyrics...your songs are like the sound track to the politics in 2008. Also Max, who knew that your parents were so famous? no wonder you are a creative and political genius! keep it up!

[julieeiluj]

Whether we are they another day, or a century, in the end the iraqi people will do what they must be try and survive as a people from that region. Our presence is not wanted. Our presence is detrimental to our fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, but it is especially detrimental to them. To have to live in the hellish squalor we have turned that country into, and continue to destroy day after day by our presence is more than they or we should have to bear. Nothing short of an immediate rapid and complete withdrawal will allow them to get their lives in order.

[dadw5boys]

Bush came to Petraeus because he is one of the General was has allowed the Military to be ILLEGALLY POLITICIZED for private profit. Oil companies love him.

[HelftMoss]

If the Senate hearings tomorrow were part of a high school television show - I would say that this would be the theme song with a montage of all the Senators grilling Petraeus over it. It's a fantastic song and really impressive.

[fighouse]

thanks for making anything about general petraeus upbeat
XOXOXOX
max a.t.m. rulz

[jcboston]

rock on Max