Iraqi trial acquittal

Occupation : Jobbing Squaddie

It's what we're trained to do, it's just our job.

If jumped up Hitlers want to get tooled out

with nukes and gas and germs that they can lob

at us, we'll bring them down, no fuckin doubt.

It wasn't so much warfare as a rout.

The worst our unit faced was sand and heat.

Talk about open doors - if we got out

to piss, they'd stick their hands up. They were beat.

It wasn't really such a major feat,

it's just our job, it's what we're trained to do.

First they were friendly, nice as you could meet.

We all relaxed. Nobody had a clue

how it would all go sour. Nobody knew

exactly when we overstayed our leave,

but when a roadside bomb took out our crew

I got the first faint sus we'd been deceived.

We didn't mind the looters and the thieves

we're trained for that, it's all part of the job.

The thing that always makes my stomach heave

is facing down a screaming angry mob.

Stones hurt, bottles can burn, but when they gob

and spit at you, that is the thing...

we sweated blood to save the fuckwit yob

who's screaming hate at you...it's that what stings.

We chased and caught them. Some one brings

them back inside the compound walls.

I heard our sarge say "Make them sing".

We laid in with our toecaps on their balls.

We got court martialled. Told us all to crawl.

Told us what not to say, gave us a gag.

They called it torture. I say we lost our rag.

We'll pay with years for one five minute brawl.

What stupid bastard sent us to this war?

How is this supposed to help the British nation?

They lied to us - we're here for Bush's oil.

No paddle in a shit-creek situation.

Two years have passed since liberation.

There were no WMD. That lying slob

Blair, he fouled up. This is an occupation.

He should jailed, not us. It's not our job.

(c) Richard Lawson 28.5.05