We Have Not Learned That Much From The Past

We have not learned that much from past history the men of power repeat the same mistake By threatening war on the Iraqi people for in war there's death and suffering and heartbreak And in war there's never happiness and laughter the bomber jets they dropp death from the sky Why to kill or capture the Iraqi leader will so many innocents have to suffer and die? . I wonder when I hear talk of 'A Just War' since any war it never has been just And war gives rise to vengeance and to hatred and between peoples build the barriers of mistrust, Who ever coined that phrase was far from clever though many of those words have taken note And too many far too many silly people that awful saying are too inclined to quote. We have not learned much from man's past history if we have learned anything at all The innocents of Baghdad and Basra will suffer when the big bombs from the night sky will fall For bombs don't always hit their designated targets and for war mistakes it's the innocents who pay With their lives or the most horrific injuries and the scars of war till death with them will stay. We have not learned much from the mistakes of our forefathers for talk of war we hear now every day And only on the day of the Election do the people ever seem to have a say And the hawkish leaders who see war as okay from the path that leads to war cannot be cowed They never seem to listen to their people though the voice of protest in their ears ring loud.