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Podcast 2573 timecode: 01:33:26 - 01:33:37, Kevin asks: Is Adam Kokesh a war criminal for enlisting in the Marines and participating in the Iraq war (in Fallujah)? The answer is perhaps revealed in the 1960's song lyrics of Universal Soldier by Buffy Saint Marie, an American Indian folk singer but the song was made popular by Donovan. The nature of what the U.S. and other countries' soldiers are involved in is no secret, evidence by the contents of the lyrics that specifically addressed dissension to the Vietnam War. The Iraq War was without a doubt a statist war given the run up to the war. So Kokesh had plenty of time to listen, to review protest songs and message like this, as was all troops who voluntarily engaged in this war. The title is appropriate as it summaries universally what a soldier is about above the background noise of mainstream and political propaganda media. Here's the lyrics (taken from songlyrics.com): He's five foot two and he's six feet four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen He's been a soldier through a thousand years He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain A Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew And he knows he shouldn't kill, and he knows he always will Kill you for me my friend, and me for you And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France He's fighting for the U.S.A and he's fighting for the Russians And he's fighting for Japan And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds He says it's for the peace of all, he's the one who must decide Who's to live and who's to die And he never see the writing on the wall But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau Without him Caesar would have stood alone He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war And without him all this killing can't go on He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame His orders come from far away, no more They come from here and there and you and me And brothers, can't you see This is not the way we put the end to war?