What are we doing in the Middle East?
As with no hard evidence at all,
The Government subjected our youth to go to
war.
The Nation was duped into believing,
The Iraqis had weapons of mass destruction.
What are we doing in the Middle East? They
could, if they wished, kill us in under an hour.
That is what we were told, by our ministers.
Fear took over and paralysed our
questioning.
Five years later, we are still there, killing our
brethren.
What are we doing in the Middle East?
So many of our youth are slain, or maimed,
So many lost limbs, so many their sight,
So many children lost their fathers and
uncles,
So many mothers, their husbands and sons.
What are we doing in the Middle East?
The children, dusty and dead and dying in the
streets.
Little limbs limp, still; in their sea of scarlet.
Frantic mothers and fathers crying out in
anguish.
In their hearts demanding terrible vengeance.
What are we doing in the Middle East?
So reminiscent of Suez in the fifties.
What right have we to kill and maim?
Is it for greed? And that greed is for oil?
What are we doing in the Middle East?
“Protecting; promoting peace,” it is said,
Then why are there so many dead?
And why keep sending, so many more men?
What are we doing in the Middle East?