Xmas in Fallujah

[DANG]

I suppose Xmas is a "Current Event"

Billy Joel composed this song and thought it needed a younger voice.... Cass Dylan does the vocals.

Not your typical Xmas yada-yada... be forewarned

"XMAS in Fallujah" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRkLvxNOhKY)

[Mia]

Do you have a link to lyrics? I can't hear the words clearly enough. Thanks.

[DANG]

To hear Billy Joels intro (but the acoustics are horrid) and outro, (he will dedicate all proceeds to "Homes for our Troops") click this link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRkLvxNOhKY)[hr]Hi Mia,
The lyrics are on the screen.
See if this one plays better for you... its the Premiere;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0huRJvnsOE

[DANG]

Here ya go Mia;

"Christmas In Fallujah"

Words & Music By Billy Joel
Preformed By Cass Dillon
2007

It's Evening In the Desert
I'm Tired and I'm cold
But I'm just a solder
I do what I am told

We Came with the Crusaders
to save the holy land
It's Christmas In Fallujah
and no one gives a damn

And I just got your letter
And this is what I read you said

I'm fading from your memory
so I'm just as good as dead

We are the armies of the empire
We are the legionnaires of Rome

It's Christmas In Fallujah
and we ain't never coming home

We came to bring these people freedom
we came to fight the infidel

there is no justice in the desert
Because there is no god in hell

They say osama's in the mountains
deep in a cave near Pakistan

But there's a sea of blood in Baghdad
A sea of oil in the sand

Between the Tigris and Euphrates
another day comes to an end

it's Christmas In Fallujah
Peace on earth goodwill to men

it's Christmas In Fallujah
hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

it's Christmas In Fallujah
hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

it's Christmas In Fallujah
hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

it's Christmas In Fallujah
hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

Merry Christmas from Fallujah
hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

Merry Christmas from Fallujah
hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

hallelujah hallelujah
(hoorah)

hallelujah hallelujah
Hoorah!


From the Billy Joel Fan Club (http://www.joelfan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=73766&sid=f836d71c62c972f1bfd2bde6c8daf2c1)

[December]

OK....
But there are more mosques in USA than there are chuches in Iraq.
There are number of mosques in Chicago -

http://www.balaams-ass.com/alhaj/islmcent.jpg

http://www.balaams-ass.com/alhaj/islam.htm

Chicago Tribune: Mosque donates city garden
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah
Tribune staff reporter

http://www.cairchicago.org/images/temp/mf_garden11132006.jpg

November 14, 2006
A Chicago-area mosque hopes the creation of a new public garden next to the Adler Planetarium will help bolster the image of Muslims as a community engaged in the city's future.

Members of the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview donated about $100,000 for the development of the 1-acre garden along the lake. Bushes, trees, perennials and a bronze plaque, which depicts a 1791 astronomer's astrolabe in Iraq, have replaced the sod and barbecue grills that were there last year.

http://www.cairchicago.org/thescoop.php?file=sc_city_garden11142006


http://www.cairchicago.org/photos/Prince_Turki/7.jpg

Imam W.D. Muhammad, famed Chicago leader and founder of The Mosque Cares and The W.D. Muhammad Ministries addresses the assembly.

http://www.cairchicago.org/photos_princeturkivisit.php

http://images.wbur.org/content/2007/06/11/mosque2.jpg

http://www.wbur.org/news/archive/?type=full



CHICAGO SUBURBS
Mosques


Fox Valley Muslim Community Center
630-801-7729
1187 Timberlake Dr.
Aurora
IL
60506

Islamic Community of Illinois
630-766-6466
8 O'Hare Ct.
Bensenville
IL
60106

Albabian American Islamic Center
630-544-2609
5825 St.Charles Rd
Berkely
IL
60103

Masjid Al-Islam
630-972-0701
560 E. Frontage Rd
Bolingbrook
IL
60440

Zabiha Restaurants / Grocery Stores Review (zabihah.com)

Mosque Foundation
708-430-5666
7360 W. 93rd St
Bridgeview
IL
60455

Islamic Community Center of Des Plaines
847-824-1100
480 Potter Rd
Des Plaines
IL
60016

Islamic Community Center
847-695-3338
345 Heine Ave
Elgin
IL
60123

MSA@Northwestern University
847-467-2348
2020 Orrington Ave
Evanston
IL
Unknown
Islamic Education Center (Hussainia Association)
630-469-5573
2N 121 Goodrich
Glendale Hts
IL
60139

Muslim Society Inc.
630-653-7872
1785 Bloomingdale Rd
Glendale Hts
IL
60139

Islamic Foundation Libertyville
630-367-6522
356 Brainerd Ave
Libertyville
IL
Unknown
Islamic Foundation Libertyville
847-816-0833
1643 Old Barn Cr
Libertyville
IL
60048

Muslim Education Center (MEC)
847-470-8801
8601 N. Menard Ave
Morton Grove
IL
60053

Islamic Center of Naperville
630-355-3733
450 S. Olsen Street
Naperville
IL
60566

Islamic Cultural Center
847-272-0319
1810 N. Pfingston
Northbrook
IL
60062

Islamic society of NW Suburbs (ISNS)
847-253-6400
3890 Industrial Ave
Rolling Meadows
IL
60008

Masjid Al-Huda (Midwest Islamic Center)
847-894-9650
1081 W. Irving Park Rd
Schaumburg
IL
60193

Islamic Foundation
630-782-6562
300 W. High Ridge Rd
Villa Park
IL
60181

Waukegan Islamic Center

http://www.internetmuslim.com/Community_Center/chicago_suburban.htm

How about other states?...

[Lazarus]

Actuall, DANG, " Christmas in Fallujah " is more of a War on Terror subject.

Which is why I posted a youtube video of that very song.

http://www.democracyforums.com/showthread.php?tid=9857


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WTF December?
Are you lost ?

[December]

Awesome!

Damn hippies!


Damn hippies? What do hippies have to do with it?
The man says that they fight for Vatican.
They think that they are some sort of neo-Templars!

Quote:
We Came with the Crusaders
to save the holy land

We are the armies of the empire
We are the legionnaires of Rome

It's Christmas In Fallujah
and we ain't never coming home

We came to bring these people freedom
we came to fight the infidel

And they came to fight the infidel?
Wow.... so much Christian love in this song...

[DANG]

Awesome!

Damn hippies!


Damn hippies? What do hippies have to do with it? Its a war protest song. Republican war mongers have always considered war protestors, Hippies.

Everybody gets to form their opinions, but I cant see the song as anything other than a protest song.

I dont know what all those mosques you posted, have to do with anything.



The man says that they fight for Vatican.
They think that they are some sort of neo-Templars!Hes not talking about the Roman Empire... hes talking about American Empire. (Listen to the song again)

"We are the armies of the empire"

Then the next line he says: "We are the legionnaires of Rome " he is comparing America to Rome, which was set to rule the world.

Quote: We Came with the Crusaders
to save the holy land The crusaders is a reference to bushs blunder in the early days of the war, he called it a crusade. His handlers and bad press made him retract the statement. The religious right is still gung ho for the war on the grounds that it will start the "End Times" and "The Rapture" and such. The religious right has a stake in this unprovoked fuckup.

It's Christmas In Fallujah
and we ain't never coming home The backdoor draft

We came to bring these people freedom
we came to fight the infidel[/i]Funny, they call us the infidel.

The "face" of America (your presitard) labelled Iraqis in the axis of evil... he was calling them infidels in his own retarded redneck way.

Thats exactly why we need a seperation of church and state. So we dont get involved in any "My God wants you and your God to die"

And they came to fight the infidel?
Wow.... so much Christian love in this song...Christian Love? In Fallujah?

Your fucktard presiturd (a pseudo christian)started this war on delusional a premise. Fake Christianty is all about murder and plunder, not love.


One of the best parts of the song: They say osama's in the mountains
deep in a cave near Pakistan

But there's a sea of blood in Baghdad
A sea of oil in the sand
If you look at a map, Pakistan is the other side of Iran.
What did OBL do, tunnel under Iran to Iraq? No. The next line explains the real reason why we are in Iraq....
"But there's a sea of blood in Baghdad " =Ethnic cleansing

And the next line spells it out pretty clear...
"A sea of oil in the sand"

See how easy it is to tell the truth?

[December]

Its a war protest song.

It is?????? No way.
Here's what he sings:

We Came with the Crusaders

We are the armies of the empire
We are the legionnaires of Rome

It's Christmas In Fallujah
and we ain't never coming home

Translation:

We are the Soldiers of Christ came to the Middle East today with the same goal as the Templars did 1000 years ago.
But we ALSO came here for a REVENGE to get even with you, Muslims, for what you did to our Templars and other Christian knights....


http://www.davidicke.com/oi/extras/knights_templar001.gif

A History of the Knights Templar
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/templars.html

we came to fight the infidel

http://www.rmc.ca/news_avis/images/051014knights1.jpg

http://www.rmc.ca/news_avis/051014reynolds_e.html

[Mia]

I agree with Dang. Bush labeled this a Crusade, and the author of the song is certainly not the first to compare us to Rome - we are trying to rule the world, one conquest at a time, it seems to many.

Dang, the only part I disagree with you on is ethnic cleansing. I think the reference to the sea of blood in Baghdad is merely the irony that we are fighting in Iraq, when supposedly the person we are after is quite far away from it.

[DANG]

December doesnt see anything wrong with Empire building.

He thinks our military should be sent on wild goose chases around the globe.... and that Crusades based on fables and storybooks are just fine.

Mia,
About the ethnic cleansing;
I am looking at the big picture. The reason we didnt secure the peace is because the globalists wanted a civil war. Much easier to have them kill each other off..... mission accomplished. The reason we bombed the Kurds last week is because they were not playing into the big plans. They were minding their own business.

Genocide is a huge part of this. The globalists dont want to share the oil reserves with the Iraqi feeders.

The more they kill each other off the better they like it. So long as oil reserves are not making it to the refineries... the better to control the price at the pump.
Its supply and demand. The less thats available, the more they can charge.

We have murdered about a million people in this slaughter.... not one of them had even threatened the USA... let alone attack us on 911.

[Mia]

I don't think so. I can go so far as to believe it's in the best interest of those speaking for the US right now to have civil war - justifies the reason for staying there, so we can build and protect the oil pipelines. But I do not believe, nor do I see any evidence for a claim of deliberate genocide.

Not to mention the fact that many don't seem to want to believe. They don't need interference to decide to kill one another. There is a reason that region is full of dictators. Without one, killing each other is what they do, until some mofo stands up, says he's going to be the only one doing any killing, and can back it up.

The fact is that Saddam may have been a brutal son of a bitch, but that's what it seems to take.

Have you read 'From Beruit to Jerusalem'? Hama rules. That's how it IS. and any change to that has to come from within, imo.

[DANG]

Actuall, DANG, " Christmas in Fallujah " is more of a War on Terror subject.
I never go there, to that thread, its a misnomer.

If it were properly labelled as "War of Terror", then I may post there once in a while.

We have bombed the living fúck out of innocent people, who were absolute zero threat to us.

We have become what we presume to hate.

Anyone who voted for bush... voted for the "Terrorists"

A Fundamentalist, a Terrorist and a Fascist walks into a bar.
The bartender says; Good evening Mr Bush, what can I get you?

Ba-dump-bump.

[DANG]

I don't think so. I can go so far as to believe it's in the best interest of those speaking for the US right now to have civil war - justifies the reason for staying there, so we can build and protect the oil pipelines. But I do not believe, nor do I see any evidence for a claim of deliberate genocide.
In an article about genocide against Iraqi Kurds in the 80's:BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4555000.stm)

According to the 1948 Geneva Convention, genocide is defined as "acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group". If Iraq is anything, its an ethnic hotbed of hate.
I agree with what you said about them needing one bad MoFo to control it.
Or;
I am not an expert, but maybe splitting Iraq into thirds would be another solution (Did Biden suggest that?).
But, for us to insert ourselves in the middle of this quagmire is only going to perpetuate the struggle which ultimately will end in a depopulation of the area.

We have used chemical warfare (of which the above BBC article had reported a conviction for genocide), in Fallujah. So, Its not just about getting them to kill each other off. We have been aggressively killing them (remember the reaso? We are killing them because Saddam was a brutal dictator who was killing them)

We ARE the terrorists.

Speaking of Fallujah;
The following is no longer archived by the Brussells Tribunal,
It can be found HERE (http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-bt270305.htm)
Genocide In Fallujah


By Brussells Tribunal

27 March, 2005
Brussells Tribunal

The city of Fallujah was subjected to a genocide war by the American forces. The military machinery destroyed almost 70 per cent of the city, from civilian houses to medical center and general services facilities especially water, electricity. This war resulted in killing thousands of innocent civilians and sending almost a half million refugee.

It is well known that the American forces and their puppet government prevented any medical or humanitarian relief agency to enter the city throughout its siege to the city.

Since the beginning of this year, the citizens are increasingly returning to the city, driven by the very bad living conditions in the places where they took refuge and the will to try the reconstruction of their houses and shops. Except for the few who found their houses still standing, the majority lived on the ruins whether by using tents or other means. In this bad living condition, the American occupation forces continue to commit grave violations to the basics principles of human rights and international law.

In order to give the international community a clear image of what is happening, we present this short report:

1 - Following the two reports that our center issued in mid January 2005 and the other facts that came to the knowledge of the UN, the human rights office of UNAMI and the Iraq office of WHO have – in two occasion- officially requested to enter the city of Fallujah in order to examine the situation there but the American occupation authority did not respond to these requests until now on the pretext of the dangerous security situation. Here we must ask, if the security situation is still dangerous, then how are families and children allowed to return to the city? Are the lives of the UN officials more precious than those of the Fallujah citizens? Or is it that there are crimes that the international bodies are not allowed to examine.

2 - The citizens of Fallujah are suffering of many sorts of humiliations when entering or leaving the city. In their daily life, they go through many sorts of harassments and threats by the American occupation forces which consider them as terrorists simply because they refuse the occupation. Not to mention the continuous random killing in all part of the city that does not exclude children or elder people, men or women. In a dangerous step of racism and freedoms limiting, the American occupation authority issued special ID cards for the citizens of Fallujah, preventing visitors from other cities to enter it. This step isolates the city Fallujah from its surroundings and the rest of the country and so turning it into a huge prison.

3 - Until the issuing of this report the effort to find the corpses of the victims of November 2004 comprehensive attack on the city still going on. The specialized burier teams have found about 700 corpses and we definitely think that the number of martyrs is greater than that. The American occupation forces itself announced that they have killed about 1300 individuals but no one knows where those bodies were buried. This assures that there are mass graves in the city, the American continual refusing to allow the UN representatives to enter the city, confirm this assessment. Furthermore, the medical authorities and the citizens could not find the burial ground of 450 bodies of the citizens of Fallujah that the American occupation forces have photographed and buried in a place that is still unknown.

4 - There are hundreds of missing personnel from Fallujah, but afraid of arrest and intimidation by the American forces, the families still hesitate to register the names of their missing with the official committee for registering the missing. That is why the registered number is less than the actual one.
5- The detainees from the Fallujah citizens are suffering of inhuman and bad treatment in both Abu Graib and Basra prisons. There is no reason behind keeping those detainees in the prisons. Unfortunately, there is no legal or official Iraqi authority that handles the issue of those detainees, it left to two mosque in the city.

6- As a measure of collective punishment, the American occupation forces and the National guards continue to use some schools inside the city as compounds, depriving students from pursuing their education without offering substitutes.

7 - There are deliberate delay by the interim government and the American occupation authority in reconstructing the city of Fallujah even in restoring the basic services. What are being announced about the reconstruction are mere lies uncovered by the fact that the people who are working in Fallujah are only those governmental employees in the city, indeed their number does not match the size of destruction that the city suffered. The American themselves admitted that more than 90000 houses have been demolished. We wonder about the difference between the destruction that Fallujah has suffered and the destruction of the areas which devastated by Tsunami. Both are devastated areas but the difference is that Fallujah is not announced officially as a devastated place in order to cover the crimes perpetrated on its soil.

7 - Despite that there is an Iraqi official committee for reconstruction, the occupation forces give out contracts without knowledge or coordination with that committee. For example one contract to build a school cost One million US dollar for each school, while the official committee estimates the cost between 200 000 and 300 000 US dollars. No local or official committee is supervising these money transactions.

8 – It was not allowed until now for any body to examine the environmental pollution that affected Fallujah due to the usage of prohibited and dangerous weapons, except for analyzing the recently established processed water. Some cases are appearing now of feats deformation for some of the newborns that is taking place in the city. As an example the case of the child Mina Jabbar Mahmood Aljumaili that was recently born and is 3 months now in addition to another child in the same neighborhood that was born in a short period after in Al'andulus neighborhood.

9 - The civilians who stayed in the city during the American offensive have gone through numerous tragic stories and inhuman treatment by the occupation forces and the Iraq so-called National Guards. The deliberate killing of the civilians was the daily practice of the American forces. Many children had to watch their parents being shot to death in front of them, or men who had to watch their children and their wives being killed. Almost every family who stayed in Fallujah has to bury a victim in their garden. As example, Hamid Abdulrazzak Sultan, a citizen from Fallujah, witnessed the killing of his pregnant wife along with his 4 sons during an American attack on 9 Nov 2004. Four members of Fawzi Hussein Salman al-Aisawi family where deliberately killed in their house by the American forces in front of their daughter on the morning of 9 November 2005.

10 – Until now, the citizens and the sick people are not allowed to cross the bridge which connects the city to the main hospital a matter that causes a great suffering. The city has no mean of communication to be used to report the urgent health cases during the curfew hours which force the sick to stay at home until dawn to be able to go to hospital. Many cases happened of appendicitis, labour, death due to clots which need immediate health care. Not to mention to war phobia in thousands of women and children which warns of a permanent psychological disaster that will be difficult to cure since it is becoming a chronic case.

11 - Not allowing issuing death certificates that explain the real causes of death and their numbers that occur due the crimes of the occupation forces because there are no clear instructions until now. The crime of bombing cities with so much brutality and destruction is the biggest evidence of disrespect for the lives of the unarmed civilians that were in the first year of occupation more that 100 000 citizens.

12- The puppet government is deliberately ignoring the crimes and the grave violation of the human rights happening every day in Iraq by the American forces and continued to talk about an old allegation of violations that allegedly happened years ago. These allegations were tackled by the commission in details, whether by reports of special rapporteur or by the several decisions it had adopted and accordingly some measures which were implemented aggressively against Iraq in unprecedented way.

What more tragedies that international bodies are waiting for in order to raise their voices demanding to stop the massacres and mass killings of the civilians. Is what happened to Fallujah and its citizens is just an accident while the entire world is on alert if a western citizen is killed in Iraq forgetting that all that is because of the hated occupation.


We call upon all countries and organizations both governmental and non governmental which taking part in the meetings of the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Commission to raise their voices and denounce those violations and exercise pressures to dispatch an investigation team to visit the city of Fallujah to examine the facts and the tragic situation that its citizens are going through. We demand the commission to nominate a special rapporteur to the human rights situation in Iraq during the occupation. We hope that this report will be distributed as among the documents of the session.


Studies Center of Human Rights and Democracy.
26 - 3 - 2005 , Baghdad - Iraq

White Phosphorus use was the chemical used by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds (Isnt that why Saddam was murdered with a rope?) A tad hypocritical, eh?

Answers.com: White Phosphorous (http://www.answers.com/topic/white-phosphorus?cat=health&method=26&initiator=CANS)

<snip>
WP was used by the Argentine Army during the 1989 attack on La Tablada Regiment, in a violation of the Geneva Convention (according to a document presented by the human rights commission of the United Nations on January 12, 2001) [9].

In Iraq, Saddam Hussein regime used White Phosphorus along with other gases in the Halabja poison gas attack during the Iran-Iraq War in 1988. (ANSA news agency[10]). According to a declassified Pentagon report from February 1991:

Iraqi forces loyal to President Saddam may have possibly used white phosphorous chemical weapons against Kurdish rebels and the populace in Erbil and Dohuk. The WP chemical was delivered by artillery rounds and helicopter gunships.[11]

2004 November Iraq War
Main article: White phosphorus use in Iraq
The possible use of white phosphorus for its chemical properties against humans has been highlighted by the US hemming and hawing on this aspect during the Iraq war. This attracted considerable media attention, especially given that one of the US objectives was to flush out chemical weapons in Iraq.

Use of WP against enemy areas in Fallujah were reported as early as April 2004:

The boom kicked dust around the pit as they ran through the drill again and again, sending a mixture of burning white phosphorus and high explosives they call "shake 'n' bake" into a cluster of buildings where insurgents have been spotted all week.[4]
However, an US official release of Dec 2004 denied any WP use:

U.S. forces have used [phosphorus shells] very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes. They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters.[12]
The specific aspect of use against humans was highlighted [13] after the documentary film Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre by Sigfrido Ranucci was aired on Italy's RaiNews24 and released on the internet[10]. In the film, Giuliana Sgrena quotes city refugees testimonies from Fallujah about the use of guns and white phosphorus:

In particular, some women had tried to enter their homes, and they had found a certain dust spread all over the house. The Americans themselves had told them to clean the houses with detergents, because that dust was very dangerous. In fact, they had some effect on their bodies, leading some very strange things.
The film also shows US soldiers on film admitting to WP use against insurgents.

US officials continued to deny the use of White Phosphorus for antipersonnel purposes; US ambassador to UK Robert Holmes Tuttle stated in November 2005, that US forces "do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons"[7].

However, within a week of ambassador Tuttle's statement, on November 15, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Barry Venable confirmed to the BBC that WP had been used as an antipersonnel weapon, and was quoted as stating clearly: "It has been used as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants" [8] [14]. In particular,

Venable pointed out that WP was effective against enemy forces in covered positions that were protected from high explosives. "One technique is to fire a white phosphorus round into the position because the combined effects of the fire and smoke - and in some case the terror brought about by the explosion on the ground - will drive them out of the holes so that you can kill them with high explosives.
"#wp-_note-news.independent.co.uk.490">[6] While WP use is legal for purposes such as signal flare, whether it constitutes a chemical weapon when used for antipersonnel purposes like the attack described above remains a grey area.

It turned out also that well before this controversy, in the March 2005 edition of the US Army magazine Field Artillery, a captain, a first lieutenant and a sergeant, had written of using white phosphorus as an "effective munition" for flushing out insurgents during the Falluja attack of November 2004:
Naturally they rationalized the use of WP as legal. In spite of Saddam being found guilty for its use... both by the Iraq kangaroo court and the Hague and the Geneva Convention.

We used Saddams use of WP on Iraqis as an excuse to use WP on Iraqis.

Ever wonder if Darth Cheney said; "I love the smell of White Phosphorous in the morning"

Its about deleting the humanity from THEIR oil fields.

Dont tell anyone but, Katrina is a parallel.

[DANG]

2 years before Billy wrote his Xmas in Fallujah...

This one was first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca41rMyH56k&feature=related[hr]This link goes to better audio than the OP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbDPK3HUH4I

(and different video, too)

[DANG]

RAW STORY (http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fox_praises_Christmas_in_Fallujah_antiwar_1217.htm l)

Fox praises 'Christmas in Fallujah' anti-war song


David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Monday December 24, 2007

Singer Cass Dillion appeared on a special Fox & Friends online segment to perform the song "Christmas in Fallujah," which Billy Joel wrote based on phrases from soldiers' letters.

"It's a little controversial," suggested the Fox hosts, pointing to lines like "we came with the Crusaders" and "we are the Legionnaires of Rome." "That's exactly how [the soldiers] felt," Dillon replied. After Dillon left the stage, the hosts concluded the song was really about "how can we show the troops our expressions of affection."

Billy Joel himself told Rolling Stone, when asked if (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17592833/billy_joel_on_christmas_in_fallujah)"Christmas in Fallujah" was an anti-war song, "People can take it anyway they want. I don't get up on a soapbox and do political messages. I believe in talking about the human being, and the conditions humans find themselves in."

Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran's of America President Paul Rieckhoff has written (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-rieckhoff/christmas-in-fallujah-_b_77028.html)the following:

"Christmas in Fallujah" is based on letters he received from troops serving in the combat zone. The song is powerful and important. And while I don't necessarily agree with every line of it, I like it a lot. It reminds me of the Christmas I spent in Baghdad in 2003. And I think the song will go a long way toward connecting Americans to the war raging halfway around the globe this holiday season. It is also sure to ruffle some peoples' feathers -- and probably piss off Bill O'Reilly.

Joel gave the song to a virtually unknown 21-year-old singer named Cass Dillon -- a guy he chose because he wanted a singer the age of many of the troops in Iraq. And he made a damn good pick.
The lyrics of "Christmas in Fallujah" are available here.


This video is from Fox's Fox & Friends, broadcast on December 17, 2007Video on link (http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Fox_praises_Christmas_in_Fallujah_antiwar_1217.htm l)