Artist: Cale Sampson Album: The Big Picture Song: The Facts of War Part 2 Typed by: @Cale_Sampson [Verse One: Cale Sampson] In a world dominated by capitalism The fact is war's not about nationalism Or what television tells you to believe in It ain't about security, it's not about freedom It's about conquering resources Expanding an empire that's corporate So industrial profits remain hoarded A few rich elite people are rewarded These individuals don't report To the government cuz' it's a revolving door Where laws and policies are basically forged To benefit the rich, while the poor are ignored And to understand this, is important Out of war, a small group makes a fortune Regardless of it's inhumanity It's actually wanted by industry Cuz' it's the most lucrative thing that can happen And international bankers always cash in Forcing countries to borrow more And more money, just to support their wars The bottom line is, more profit is made The longer that a war can be sustained They're supposed to be long and go on and on And believe it or not, they're not meant to be won Look at history, you'll see events are staged Within the government, than someone else is blamed Public perception is manipulated To support agendas that before we were against This is all done through the mass media Cuz' people believe what TV feeds to us There's no real enemy in a war on terror So what that means is it can go on forever [Chorus] ( Martin Luther King ) Men do not easily assume the task Of opposing their government's policy Especially in time of war ( John F. Kennedy ) I am asking your help For the tremendous task Of informing and alerting the American people ( Ron Paul ) What if war and preparation for war is a racket What if the American people woke up and understood That the official reasons for going to war Are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda In order to serve special interests [Verse Two: Cale Sampson] At the time that World War 2 began Franklin Roosevelt was the U.S. President And his family were bankers who wanted in the war Cuz' for them, nothing else could make them profit more The plan was to provoke the Japanese To fire the first shot and become the enemy So Roosevelt did everything he could to spark anger Supporting China, Japan's enemy neighbor And several days before Pearl Harbor was hit The President was told of oncoming battleships By Australian intelligence, but he ignored this Resulting in the death of twenty-four hundred soldiers Eighty percent of the public was against Going to war, just before this event Then one million men volunteered for action This was no sneak attack, it was allowed to happen And when the Vietnam War began The President of the States was Lyndon Johnson Again, the U.S. knew it could make a profit If they had an excuse to enter the conflict In Nineteen Sixty-Four they alleged Vietnamese boats attacked two U.S. ships This apparently occurred in the Gulf of Tonkin It's the reason why their military was called in There's one problem however Secretary of Defense Robert Mcnamara Spoke out years later, and stated This attack never occurred in the first place, it Was a mistake, it was a complete lie Over three million people died And this is not a conspiracy thing, they're trying to hide You can read it for yourself, it's all declassified [Chorus] ( George W. Bush ) Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists ( George W. Bush ) Of course were after Saddam Hussein, I mean uh Bin Laden ( George W. Bush ) You know one of the hardest parts of my job Is to connect Iraq to the War on Terror ( Dick Cheney ) There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction ( Donald Rumsfeld ) We know where they are They're in the area around uh Tikrit and Baghdad ( George W. Bush ) The main reason we went into Iraq At the time was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction Turns out, he didn't ( George W. Bush ) What did Iraq have to do with what ( Reporter ) The attack on the World Trade Centre ( George W. Bush ) Nothing [Verse Three: Cale Sampson] Did you know, in order to gain power Hitler burned down his own parliament tower Then he blamed terrorists for the attack And within weeks passed the enabling act This destroyed the German constitution When it came to rights, people had to lose them And support his program of war and tyranny All deemed necessary for homeland security Sounds like something else It's interesting how history repeats itself Makes you wonder, if 9/11 may have been planned To jumpstart wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Terrorism's not the threat That were led to believe, it won't cause our death It's just propaganda used to make you afraid So the government can go to war and take our rights away Dick Cheney the Vice President Was also the CEO of Halliburton And that's the same company that got contracts Worth billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq This is why the Middle East was invaded So they could steal the oil and dominate it Establish permanent military bases To be used against other oil bearing nations In terms of profit, for the elite See death and destruction's a positive thing And a global monopoly's what they seek Over the energy resources that we all need It's no different than the Greeks and Romans The British, the French, everyone else before them This is an empire, based on greed And the majority of us still have no idea [Chorus ( Outro )] ( George Carlin ) I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions Forget the politicians Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice You don't, You have no choice You have owners They own everything They own all the important land They own and control the corporations And they own all the big media companies So they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying To get what they want Well we know what they want They want more for themselves and less for everybody else But I'll tell you what they don't want They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking They're not interested in that That doesn't help them, that's against their interest That's right