BLOOD FOR OIL       Armymen on TV, salivating   Discussing tactics, almost masturbating   Cannon fodder - it’s a Gulf War volunteer   Gonna die in the desert for the sake of a rich emir   They toasted peace in 1989   But the cold war colonels are peddling a brand new line:   Blood for oil (x4)      Saddam was a friend, a good pro Western man   When he gassed the Kurds and the teenagers of Iran   Yankee, French and Soviet arms to order   And a British supergun stopped at the Turkish border   ‘Yeah, we’ll give you the recipe for hell....   Just keep your hands off Texaco and Shell..’   Blood for oil (x4)      And when he marched into Kuwait what did the papers say?   Did they talk about the arms dealers who helped him on his way?   No, he’s the Hitler of Baghdad, that’s why we’re off to war   But just like Hitler, he was Hitler all those years before   When the West put him in power   And business kept him in power...      A German chemical firm called IG Farben   Still trading, renamed Bayer Leverkusen   Made Zyklon B to exterminate the Jews   And lots of shit that Saddam liked to use   Now profiteers and hypocrites combine   And half the world is in the firing line....   Blood for oil (x4)