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"In the last six months, the Pentagon has ordered 9,640 body bags, but they are not immediately headed for the Persian Gulf. "Right now, we're just replenishing supplies" in military warehouses, said Frank Johnson, a spokesman for the Defense Supply Center in Philadelphia. "It's not necessarily an indication of things to come."

The military shuns the term body bag, which gained widespread usage during the Vietnam War, when 58,000 American military personnel died. Instead, the military began calling them "human remains pouches" during the 1991 Persian Gulf war. They are made of vinyl and cost the government about $38 a pouch."

-- SYDNEY P. FREEDBERG, ST. PETERSBURG TIMES.

Don't you know?
The raging wars
Don't you know?
are in our name
Don't you know?
We're paying for
Don't you know?
Not keeping score?

Don't you know?
The suicide crimes
Don't you know?
are in reaction
Don't you know?
When they feel cornered
Now we know
How they strike back!

Better question what they tell us
Better question Congressmen
Cause payback's really Hell
For wars we wage

Better tell them to reverse course
They want more of the same
Don't really want to see more
Body bags
Body bags
Body bags

Don't you know?
Lies on TV
Don't you know?
It's infotainment
Don't you know?
It's quite misleading
Don't you know
And it just hurt us

Don't you know?
Ignorance ain't bliss
Don't you know?
What we just witnessed
Don't you know?
The end of peace?
Now we know
A new cold war

The options are all shrinking
Chimps who steal elections
Made selfishness a virtue
And crime enshrine

Meantime sabers rattling
Canaries are all dying
An apocalyptic saga
Before our eyes
For our eyes
Body bags
Body bags --

Don't you know!