Worry, worry, super scurry...

The war machine springs to life.
Opens up one eager eye.
Focusing it on the sky.
Where 99 red balloons go by.

99 Decision Street.
99 ministers meet.
To worry, worry, super-scurry.
Call the troops out in a hurry.
This is what we've waited for.
This is it boys, this is war.
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by.

99 Knights of the air
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a superhero.
Everyone's a Captain Kirk.
With orders to identify.
To clarify and classify.
Scramble in the summer sky.
As 99 red balloons go by.

99 dreams I have had.
In every one a red balloon.
It's all over and I'm standing pretty.
In this dust that was a city.
If I could find a souvenier.
Just to prove the world was here.
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.

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Well this is a pickle now. Iran seizes military troops, and threatens to try them on their terms. Britain shows no sign of budging. Still in America, people claim to be unaffected by the 4+ year of hostilities after the "Iraqi liberation" -- it's that Disney mindset, I suppose.*

But it really sucks when the ball is no longer in your court, eh? I'm not sure what the inaction, and wait-and-be-patient leaders see coming down the pipes. Do you remember the 1983 Beirut bombings? I do. Chlorine gas attacks are something new though. What size type do you suppose the front pages would use, and is that what it's going to take to wake up slumberers? And should we act surprised?

Strange days indeed.
Most peculiar, mama!
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*To be an honest critic, you have to be honest.
Often the game goes to the best prepared, and if both teams are ready, it usually goes to the one that wants it the worst ... and is most willing to pay for it. If the only sacrifice you've made is to take your shoes off in the airport, or bitch and moan filling up your tank while slapping a magnetic ribbon on your car supporting someone else's brothers, husbands, wives, daughters, and sons, well that's really not a good sign. I suspect were the action a little closer to home, you'd really want it bad. To "win". The game's not over of course, but we surely don't have enough people yet with their head in the game on this one. Agreed?