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In 1999, President Bill Clinton directed NATO to bomb the hell out of the independent country of Yugoslavia.
BOMBING THE BRIDGE TO THE 21st CENTURY
(to the tune of “If I Only Had a Brain”)
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America! We
are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see
further into the future.”
-Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, Feb. 19, 1999
I could bomb you every hour
Irradiate the flowers
And mock you in disdain (heh-heh heh-heh heh-heh)
It may be a bitter pillage
When I cluster bomb your village
Oh, but I can feel your pain
I will bomb you to obey me
Until you Rambouillet me
Ethnic cleansing as we speak
Dan I’d Rather not report it
Tom Broke-off will distort it
(too bad Cockburn’s off this week)
O I won’t tell you why
We bomb hossssspittttals and skkools
Just remember the golden rule —
Who’s got the gold (snap! snap!) — They make the rule
I’m as tender as a kitten
When I am I-M-F’n
World Bankin’ on yer chain
Structurally adjust ya
Privatize’n bustya
Ooooh, “Let me feel yer pain.”
When someone’s an empty kettle
Steely eyed and metal
Rust in all the parts
New world order-up some oil
For my friends who’ve been so loyal
And so I blow up all your bridges
Short out electric grid-ges
For Bechtel and WalMart
Pristina ain’t so pristine
With uranium oxide misting
Picture me a bombardier
Invisible to all below
Target rich environment
And if I miss Who’s gonna know?
So we kill 3 thousand people
Worse than Hitler, what a perv!
Russian sector? — can’t oblige ya
I’m just a paper tijer
They won’t get a word in
In their direction let us fart
With my missiles of uranium
And my tanks made of titanium
And my access to your cranium
Through the TV in your brainium
I’m war criminally insanium
‘Cause I haven’t got a heart.
With Monica by my side
I’ve got courage to the core
Under the missile TOW
Kiss me once! And blow some more!
(Spoken) And now: Joschka! Joschka Fischer! —
I could bomb you just a bissel
Cruisin’ on my missile
Some red paint on my frown
Our new Luftwaffe may seem callous
But I say, “NATO über alles” —
My Greens won’t let me down
I could bomb you every hour
Blast away the flowers
And mock you in disdain (heh-heh heh-heh heh-heh)
It may be a bitter pillage
When I cluster bomb your village
Oh, but I can feel your pain.
I will bomb you to obey me
Until you Rambouillet me
Ethnic cleansing as we speak
Dan I’d Rather not report it
Tom Broke-off will distort it
(too bad Cockburn’s off this week)
O I won’t tell you why
We bomb hossssspittttals and skkools
Just remember the golden rule —
Who’s got the gold (snap! snap!) — They make the rule
I’m as tender as a kitten
When I am I-M-F’n
World Bankin’ on yer chain
Structurally adjust ya
Privatize’n bustya
Ooooh, “Let me feel yer pain.”
For more info on the role of NATO and Clinton on Yugoslavia and in getting us to where we are today, see Mitchel Cohen, “NOT ON THE NEWS: AGAINST NATO’S WAR ON YUGOSLAVIA” and “BOMBING THE BRIDGE TO THE 21ST CENTURY: Behind NATO’s Bombardment of Yugoslavia“
