Bruce Springsteen, on Iraq, 2007:
Who?ll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who?ll be the last to die for a mistake
Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say that we have made a mistake. Someone has to dies so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war."
We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to dies in Vietnam? How do ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
