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Buy the precious enduring truth

Don't compromise and sell out

No matter how viciously loud

They criticize, threaten, and shout

Marine corporal Trent Thomas

Has done the right thing

Publicly admitting wrong doing

Pleading guilty to kidnapping

And murdering an unarmed Iraqi

He gave his testimony on AC 360

The war weary corporal is a hero

Not for killing a 52-year old man

A civilian named Hashim Ibrahim Awad

Nor for being in the killing squad

But for telling the truth about war

How it effected his pure inner core

With Iraq, Thomas wants no more

Though he'd like to re-enlist to serve

This purple heart holder won't swerve

Neither compromise his Christian witness

Though his allegations some reject and dismiss

His sergeant's orders Thomas fully obeyed

Though in so doing justice was betrayed

Such is the ongoing plight of war

Now the military's reputation is tore

As some come clean and others deny

Intelligence about WMD is used on the sly

Rarely do we at home ever ask why

The innocent continue to suffer and die

How long must we stay the course

Quiet our conscience and our heart divorce?

Heroically confessing to his crime

Cpl. Trent Thomas should serve no time

The question that must be asked however

Is why do soldiers try to quickly cover

Their murderous mishaps with a shovel

While placing an AK-47 next to the dead

To make it look like a bomb plant instead

Atrocities the Dept. of Defense does dread

Meanwhile policy makers in DC bang heads

Go home to be well fed and rest on their beds

Never any disturbances in their neighborhood

How than can they relate to trying to do good

In the middle of a bloody civil war in Iraq

So many dissidents complicates who to attack

Who to believe, when to retreat, or fire back

The entire military strategy does sadly lack

A resolution for a sound diplomatic solution

Continual killing only causes more alienation

Increasing our enemies seeking retribution

This ill conceived war is gaining criticism

Active-duty military personnel are protesting

The war in Iraq is inhumane and disheartening

Marine Corps Sgt. Liam Madden has no regrets

Concerning his enlistment and the war of whack

Though he protests America's occupation and attack

Saying if he'd known the U.S. would invade Iraq

He probably wouldn't have enlisted for that.

Mostly concerned about the reasons we went to war

Madden feels it was for profiteering for sure

Disenchanted by the loss of human life

Fundamentally wars only breed more strife

Iraq Veterans Against the War also are unhappy

Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak Out

They've introduced the End the War in Iraq Act

Iraq is a fiasco and that's an undeniable fact

Pres. Bush may have an unbending bone in his back

But his dubious intel and secrecy will catch much flak

Families are growing impatient and want sons home

Not content to have their flesh defend the Green Zone

Maneuvering and living for green always turns mean

Neither is politics and a military effort as it does seem

The truth we must embrace, honor, and not demean

Heroic are soldiers who tell the truth and come clean.

Paul Davis is a FL real estate professional, life coach (relational & professional), worldwide minister, and change master.

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