I remember when I first heard the song "Bombs over Baghdad." It gave me an eerie foreboding feeling that this was a lyrical prophecy unintentionally foretelling inevitable military conflict between the U.S. and Iraq. Seems this may just be true as it's only a matter of time. God help America!

these musicians and actors need to shut the fuck up and make music and movies. not supporting a war against this modern day hitler would be to be for iraq not America. good thing there is a few good soldiers who are willing to die so that these artist can make there music freely. i love outkast but i dont give a damn about their politics or any other artist who opposes a just war with iraq..

I'm not anti-American, but I've got to wonder how many of our soldiers even really know what they're fighting for. The way I see it, we're dealing with two villains. I don't support Saddam because he's a fundamentalist dictator. I don't support Bush because he has yet to tell us the whole story; which probably means he's hiding something. If they wanted Saddam dead, they should have pulled the trigger when they had him in their crosshairs under the first Bush administration--- but they didn't. I support the troops because that's what they need right now, but I don't support the war until Bush tells us all that stuff that we don't know. Don't forget, a person who gets in office despite the votes of the people is usually a dictator--- what makes Bush any different than Saddam?
The Jig is up...

Yo big ups to kast for standing against this war. It's a load of bullshit.

I know the soldiers, seamen, marines, and cadets know exactly what they're fighting for. It doesn't matter if you are not informed enough to know what's going on. Just because your candidate didn't win the election doesn't mean that you have to no longer support your country. If you're not down with America, LEAVE! That's your right as an American, because we are the most free nation in the world. Marinate on that.

If you da tru soldier, you know that soldiers don't question the reasons. Soldiers do what they're told, they listen da boss. Sometimes the boss is right, sometimes the boss is wrong.

THE BOSS IS WRONG

but true soldiers have to serve on anyway, and they need our love and respect. Soldiers will lay down their lives for you and your family, know dat.

But Bush is wrong. Our soldiers deserve better.

you people sound like you envy the u.s. war is going on and i think all this protest is A WASTE OF TIME...what the american ppl should do now is support those who are out there like it or not

No person has killed more Muslims than Saddam. He is a terrorist against his own people. He gased over 280,000 Kurds. America did find a weapon of mass destruction and it is Saddam. Soldiers shed their blood so 5000 innocent civilians don't have to shed their blood again.

Bush chose not to go with the UN because they have constantly leaked CIA weapons inspection information to the Iraqi government since 1991. If you turn on your tv tonight you will find out that we have found a chemical weapons complex.

Hey the truth, where you getting your specious numbers? Even Amnesty International's numbers make yours sound absurd and people accuse #them# of hyperbole. (the numbers from kurdistand.org place it at around 5000, still too many - a tragedy nevertheless.) And at the US's hand, the UN inspectors turned over aerial photography to Israel, Iraq's enemy. (Source for latter info: Harpers and the Guardian in the UK.)

Our country is acting as it wishes, with no regard for international opinion and international law. We struck without provocation and it makes us a rogue state with WMD. We're the only people who've used atomic bombs on anyone. What does this say about my country? Hussein isn't the only criminal. The Hauge awaits Bush.

I’m a native New Yorker who cried for months after Sept 11th. But even this city which has suffered so much voted against this war - don't attack Iraq in our name - there's nothing to suggest Hussein had anything to do with it. I love my country, but this US is not the US that I pledge allegiance to.

My family is a military family. Two on my uncles died in Korea, my dad was wounded there. I had two cousins die in Vietnam. I understand that there are times to fight but this is not one of them. We're not liberating anyone - we're hastening a humanitarian crisis in Iraq.

This is an illegal, unjust war. Welcome back to the chilling old era of empire. We've got orgies and vomitariums ahead of us. And how did that work put for the Romans?

Leah

Isnt it kinda funny the way Outkast predicted this war? I mean with the Bomb Over Baghdad shit. Well maybe outkast is the real American Idol.

Although I do question this war sometimes, I support it 100% I think Bush is an excellent president and people try to find any reason they can to hate him. I come from a military family, my Dad just retired from the Navy, my stepdad is in the Navy (both were in Gulf War) my husband is in the Marines (possibly shipping out in a couple of weeks) and my brother is trying to join the Army now. Saddam is a modern day Hitler. Maybe if Clinton wouldn't have let him go for years we wouldn't be facing these problems now. He is a hearless and very cold man. He really doesn't give a shit about his people at all. Atleast our president supports and cares for our troops, he has a heart. Saddam kills his own people! That right there tells you he doesn't care about his people, only himself!

God, ignorance is epidemic in America. Clinton didn't ignore Saddam (Desert Fox). However he was quite preoccupied with Republicans trying to impeach him over something ridiculous.

There is huge world opposition to this war and it's not because anyone likes Saddam, it's because the US is conducting itself deceitfully, illegally (by international laws) and downright dangerously.

There is too much political motive behind the sequence and timing of events leading up to this war. There are dictators killing their people all around the world. But we pick and choose which ones to take out of office and seize their countries.

So I say I am proud of our troops, but ashamed of our leaders.

America is full of ignorant-ass people. 60% think Saddam was behind 9/11.

This war is nothing but greed soaked imperialism being spun by propaganda to make us look like the good guys. jt had it right. There are all kinds of dictators we don't go after, and many we actually put into power. Take, for example, the Shah in Iran in 1953, or another famous "September 11" is the 1973 U.S. assassination of the democratically elected president Salvador Allende in Chile (followed with the U.S. installation of dictator Augusto Pinochet). Or consider the democratically elected government of Gutamala that we helped overthrow with a MERE 200,000 CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. Remember when the United States backed El Salvador?, whose barbaric "death squads" killed over 70,000 people with full U.S. support and training. Surely you heard about the Reagan administration and Nicaragua, during which 30,000 Nicarguans died at the hands of the U.S. trained "contras". And don't forget the 3,000 civilian Panamanian casualties from the illegal U.S. invasion of Panama. Or the 50,000 civilian casualties reaped when U.S. warplanes bombed an aspirin factory in Sudan. Our government gave Saddam his weapons that he used along with billions of dollars in aid, while also selling Iran weapons to fight the Iraquis. And don't forget our own CIA trained Bin Laden (and donated him a paltry $3 billion)to fight the Russians. Since "Desert Storm" over 500,000 Iraqi children have died as a direct result from U.S. imposed sanctions, mainly due to starvation. Think about that every time you hear that our armed forces are doing "everything in their power to keep civilian casualties to a minimum", as the propaganda machine trumpets our soldiers as saints. Doesn't do those half a million dead kids any good. And the list goes on and on. No country in recent history has more blood on it's hands that the good old United States, so to hear about any moral implications for this war in Iraq is absurd. The United States is the world's leading terrorist state - period. This war is about oil, showmanship, intimidation, and making certain corporations very very rich, but our soldiers are not in Iraq because Sadam is a "modern day Hitler" (we have quite a few of those on Capitol Hill already). Bush is already signing deals with big business as to how they're going to carve up Iraq once they're done with it. They warned us about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction falling into the wrong hands, well guess what, it already has - ours. And for those of you out there that are going to tell me how great this country is and - love it or leave it- , but don't criticize it, all I can say is that it's extreme criticism that keeps this country from fully being the new Nazi Germany, and that if you're so pro-war, in the great words of Henry Rollins, do us a favor- enlist. I applaud Outkast for taking a stand on this issue.

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Grim Beefer says it all.

And for all you Bush supporters, could you please tell me the effects of Bush's "Operation Ignore"?

Can you?

Do you even know what it was? What it led to?

Here's a hint:
take a look at the New York City skyline.

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