CALE SAMPSON - The Facts Of War lyrics

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Oil is used primarily as a fuel

There's only fifty years left of it, it's non renewable

It's the gasoline in our automobiles

Everything plastic, and all package materials

Telephones, credit cards, toothpaste

Shampoo, glasses, aspirin, house paint

Cameras, tires, film, toys, tape

Are just some of the many products that oil can make

The largest consumer is the United States

Using twenty-five percent of all petroleum made

Half of that's imported, America needs help

By Two Thousand and Twelve domestically they'll run out

Now Iraq has the second largest oil reserve

Behind Saudi Arabia on the entire earth

One point One Trillion dollars it's worth

And there's plenty undiscovered land yet to be searched

Industrial countries, depend and rely

On the Middle East to maintain our styles of life

Just imagine, if they manipulated the price

So which Countries could grow, was up to them to decide

These denials that the war's really not about oil

Are completely unconvincing, it made my blood boil

When Colon Powell claimed it would be shared nice & equal

Held in a trusteeship for all the Iraqi people

C'mon, Who you really think will service these fields

Chevron Texaco and Exxon Mobil

The largest energy companies in the nation

Out to become the world's two richest corporations

And if you back Bush, you get a part of this

If you don't co-operate he makes it very hard to live

Gotta wonder, if Nine Eleven's just an excuse

To go through with something he already wanted to do

Man, check his track record, a brutal history

Why we don't know more about it still remains news to me

This President never served, when he was called upon

And pulled strings to avoid combat in Vietnam

Did you know the first oil drilling business he got

Lost lots of money and was a financial flop

Arbusto, became Bush Explorations

Hoping the family name would help it's reputation

Two years later it failed as well

He was bailed out by a College friend from Yale

When William Dewitt, bought his company out

Then merged it with Spectrum Seven as an offer of help

And immediately George Bush became C.E.O

But by Nineteen eighty-six, the same tale unfolds

A group of investors, with political motives

Appeared in the nick of time, to become his co-owners

Harken Energy, now listen close here

Paid him well over a Hundred-Thousand dollars a year

With a lack of experience, and financial debts

Came an unbelievable chance for them to get rich

'Cause close to Iraq, is the Country Bahrain

Fearing an invasion by Saddam Hussein

They bypassed major U.S. oil chains

And gave Bush's company rights to drill their terrain

But by Nineteen-Ninety internal advisors

Warn of the company's potential demises

Already a Hundred and Fifty Mill' in the hole

And if Saddam invades Kuwait stock value will fall

One month later Bush decided to sell

Two-Thirds of the shares in Harken that he held

That's a lot, to dump at once on to the market

But good timing, he made a two-hundred percent profit

Eight Hundred and Fifty Grand on the deal

At it's top price on the exchange, what a sale

'Cause Eight days later Harken Oil reports

That it's down twenty-five percent and dropping more

Who's guilty of insider trading here

When you look at the facts George Bush should appear

Even though he insists, he never got information

And was unaware of any kind of dire situation

No one has ever announced who made the purchase

An unidentified buyer, it's almost perfect

He also violated S.E.C. regulations

To announce your deals to them, by a month after you make them

But dad was President, controlled the commission

In charge of investigating his own son's suspicion

And you wonder why, he was never punished

The case against him was dropped, now it's over & done with

What do we want (Peace), when do we want it (Now)