<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546564" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Because Of Us</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We will never defeat the terrorists with our oppressive laws<br>We will only defeat terrorism by fighting it's root cause<br>What are we doing one well might ask to alleviate poverty<br>In war torn and Third World Countries? not much if you ask me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because of us thousands of innocents in New York and Washington have died<br>And because of us so many dreams of life have been destroyed<br>And because of us in Afghanistan suffering and death dropped from the night sky<br>Those who say we are the good guys even believe their own lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And because of us in Iraq there is fear and death and pain<br>Far worse than the worst suffering inflicted on his people by the deposed despot Saddam Hussein<br>And since the Gulf war more than a million Iraqi citizens have met with a premature and tragic end<br>And why should they wish to believe us when we tell them we're their friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a World where there is so much poverty terrorism will abound<br>For places of suffering and poverty are to the terrorists breeding ground<br>If we put as much effort into combating poverty as fighting terrorists then terrorism would subside<br>And people would live in harmony and peace would be Worldwide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the wars and deaths and suffering the terrorists we'll blame<br>But we ourselves not innocent we too play the dirty game<br>The game that causes grief and heartbreak they call it Us and They<br>But one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter at least that's what they say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because of us there are refugees and these poor people we demonize<br>And that they do not seem to like us comes to us as a surprise<br>And because of us and because of them there is only hell to pay<br>And that beautiful rose the Rose of Peace is withering to decay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546564" data-title="Because Of Us de Francis Duggan" data-description="We will never defeat the terrorists with our oppressive laws We will only defeat terrorism by fighting it's root cause What are we doing one well might ask to alleviate poverty In war torn and Third World Countries? not much if you ask me. Becaus..."></div> </div> </div>

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