Marine sings answer to Dixie Chicks hit

[unhappycamper]

Cpl. David Thibodeaux, a Marine who has deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, recently recorded "I'm Not Ready to End the Fight," an answer song to the Dixie Chicks' anti-war music. The song features backing music from Toby Keith's Easy Money Band.


Marine sings answer to Dixie Chicks hit
By Dan Lamothe - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Mar 18, 2008 22:11:34 EDT

Cpl. David Thibodeaux was in Iraq with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, when the Dixie Chicks partnered with anti-war group MoveOn.org in 2004. Despite the band making headlines with anti-war views, he didn’t know much about them, he says.

Nevertheless, Thibodeaux now sings “Not Ready to End the Fight,” an “answer song” to the Dixie Chicks’ 2006 anti-war hit, “Not Ready to Make Nice.”

“I’ve seen so many good things happen in Iraq, and I don’t think it’s time for the war to end,” said Thibodeaux, a member of the Chemical and Biological Incident Response Force. “Anybody who doesn’t think there are terrorists out there should open their eyes.”

Featuring backing music from members of Toby Keith’s Easy Money Band, the song has been played on radio stations across the country. A music video will be released soon.

How did a Louisiana native stationed in Indian Head, Md., find himself recording music in Nashville? It began when another Marine, Maj. Deryl Michael, and Tim Hernandez, a friend who had worked in the music business, watched the Dixie Chicks accept their Grammy on TV in 2007. They decided that night to write a response song and find an active-duty serviceman to sing it.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/03/marine_song_031808/

[marmar]

1. Evolution has not been kind to some....

:dunce: :dunce: :dunce: :dunce:

[NYVet]

8. NeverMind...

I was going to say something about the Chicks, but seeing as how I didn't like them to start, I'll refrain.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Is he still in Iraq?

Or has he been sent home to sing this song to grateful Americans?

[tachyon]

3. He's got a purty mouth

seriously...
;-)

[DemocratInSoCal]

4. Right Wing Progaganda At DU?

Can we please keep this a Garbage Free Zone?

[ColbertWatcher]

5. I think it's interesting...

...he says he's all for staying in Iraq, yet, with this song, he is guaranteed a place far from any real danger.

He will soon get the Prince Harry treatment.

[tuvor]

6. This is like when you think of a zippy rejoinder a day later.

This is so 2006, and worse, it cops the Chicks' original tune and much of the lyrics.

That's fine if you're Weird Al, but....

[TahitiNut]

7. It's very easy, when in military service, to believe that it's a valid mission.

Such a belief makes the jeopardy ("in harm's way") more psychologically tolerable. The stress of a realization that "the People" are not ensuring that such deployments are consistent with the values and ideals espoused makes one damned near crazy. (I know. That's what we felt, to some lesser degree, in VIet Nam.)

We MUST acknowledge that these individuals, even though we KNOW the mission is based on lies and is the result of illegal acts by a criminal administration, are still (for the most part) exhibiting courage and loyalty to the nation.

Don Quixote WAS courageous! It matters not that the windmills posed no threat. He believed they were and acted honorably in the context of that belief. We must attend to that lesson.

It is "We the People," in not asserting our responsibility for self-governance and failing to prosecute criminal acts in our name, who have not acted with honor and performed our duty.

[NYVet]

9. If Saddam had not shot at American planes in defience of the cease fire

and here is a link from the UN website showing to a report by Hans Blix stating that Saddam was not complying with his end of the deal.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusnewsiraq.asp?NewsID=354&sID=6

Here is 1 quote from the report

"As we know, the twin operation ‘declare and verify’, which was prescribed in resolution 687 (1991), too often turned into a game of ‘hide and seek’. Rather than just verifying declarations and supporting evidence, the two inspecting organizations found themselves engaged in efforts to map the weapons programmes and to search for evidence through inspections, interviews, seminars, inquiries with suppliers and intelligence organizations."