Counting Bodies Like Sheep.....

This picture spoke volumes to me when I first saw it. Remarkable symbolism even down to the cuff links and breast pin! As soon as I saw it I immediately thought of a great song I had been listening (and still listen) to by probably one of the forefront subversive bands of the moment (behind Rage Against The Machine - of course) A perfect Circle. The lyrics of their song - The Noose really brought this picture alive. Here's some of the lyrics:

THE NOOSE

So glad to see you well
Overcome them completely silent now
With Adams Help
You cast your demons out

And not to pull your halo down
around your neck and tug you off your cloud

But I'm more than just a little curious
how your plannin' to go about making your amends
to the dead.....to the dead

And not to pull your halo down
around your neck and tug you to the ground

But I'm more than just a little curious
how your plannin' to go about making your amends
to the dead.....to the dead

Yes your halo's slippin' down
Your halo's slippin'
Your halo's slippin' down
Your halo's slippin' down

Your Halo's slippin' down (but I'm more than just a little curuious)
Your Halo's slippin' down (how your plannin' to go about making your)
Your Halo's slippin' down (but I'm more than just a little curuious)
Your Halo's slippin' down (how your plannin' to go about making your)

Your Halo's slippin' down
Your Halo's slippin' down
To choke you now

It says a lot more on its own than I ever could here. I recommend listening to the song and as you do cast your mind back over the activities of the Bush administration in recent years. While doing so ask yourselves: is it appropriate that this man and his administration has worn the cross as a breastpin and hoisted it as a flag? and: in doing so has he not underpinned the justification of a war that recent body counts are indicating is another genocide?