I'm in awe of their devotion,
of their fearless sacrifice,
of their duty and their readiness
to pay the dearest price.
Where they can summon everything here,
I can only muster up the nerve to say,
I oppose the troops.
I admire their commitment to the rightness of their cause,
and I understand the impulse and the principles and laws.
There is evil to be battled,
but it's evil that no firepower will allay.
I oppose the troops.
I oppose
the troops with all their codes of honor.
That kind of honor is a curse.
The more they try to right the world,
the more they serve to make
it worse.
Cause they're not fighting for our freedom,
at least not since the Civil War. And even then,
half fought against it,
if we're really
keeping score.
Like each abandoned veteran,
war is soon a relic from a distant time and
day.
I oppose the troops.
I oppose the troops.
I oppose
the troops,
though they don't give
the orders,
they've got to share some of the blame.
For what they line up for and sign
up for,
there'd be no war if no one came.
And they say
it's unrealistic to think that
war could ever cease,
and yet they demand the world's respect to spit on any
chance for peace.
So no thank you for your service,
for your protocols and ranks,
your guns, missiles,
drones, and warheads to the war in our heads.
No thanks.
It's all over if you want it, and
it starts when every AWOL soldier gets away.
I oppose
the troops.
I oppose
the troops.
I oppose the troops.
I oppose the troops.
I oppose the troops.
I oppose
the deuce.