War Pigs
Battlefield hog metaphor
War Pigs is the title of a 1970 Black Sabbath song that condemns military and political leaders who send others to die in wars they themselves avoid.
The term has entered broader use as a denunciation of hawkish politicians and war profiteers—those who advocate for or benefit from armed conflict while bearing none of its costs: The protesters called the defense contractors war pigs.
- Black SabbathPioneering heavy metal act
- heavy metalAggressive amplified rock genre
- classic rockEnduring guitar-driven music
- power chordsRoot-fifth guitar voicings
- metalHard conductive solid
Ozzy · generals · bombs · battlefield · politicians · destruction · tanks · napalm · air raid · protest · antiwar · Vietnam · riffs · heavy · Satan · witches · military · blood
War Pigspeace activists
Those advocating nonviolent resolution
pacifists · doves · peacemakers · conscientious objectors · anti-war protesters
War Pigscannon fodder
Troops treated as disposable
soldiers · grunts · infantrymen · frontline troops · foot soldiers
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