“In September 2004, Waters released two new tracks, ”To Kill The Child“ and ”Leaving Beirut“. These were released only on the Internet. Both of these tracks were inspired by the U.S./UK invasion of Iraq in 2003. Waters, who currently resides in the U.S., has said that the songs were written immediately after the start of the war, but he delayed releasing them until just before the 2004 Presidential election, hoping to derail George W. Bush's re-election.” Wikipedia =D