I agree the song sucked on numerous levels. Musically it sucked ass. Absolutely nothing special about it at all. Original music from unknown bar bands is usually better.

What really made it suck, was how anti-American the song was. It was packed with hate America sound bites.

It also completely disrespects U.S. soldiers.

Maybe all those years of driving drunk and getting into accidents has affected Billy Joel. I guess he really was never the same since Christie Brinkley dumped his ass all those years ago.

Some of the lyrics are sickening...

"We came with the crusaders".... He is calling the U.S. "crusaders". Geez... talk about leftist propaganda.

"Armies of the empire".... He's calling us an empire. I wish we were an empire. That way we wouldn't be paying over $3 a gallon for gas and $3 a gallon for home heating oil.

"Legionnaires of Rome"... He's calling U.S. soldiers legionnaires of Rome.

He calls U.S. soldiers "infidels".

Billy Joel is an asshole and should be ashamed of himself.

I think one of the commenters on YouTube summed up exactly what this song was supposed to be all about....

Billy Joel can go to hell.