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Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can’t be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

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All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

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Understanding

Years

Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can’t trust the Americans.

Eye

Military

Want

Anger is energy, and you’ve got to find a place to put it that works for you.

Energy

Beautiful rocks – beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river – covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

Beautiful

Rocks

Sky

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight.

Darkness

Fighting

Struggle

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

Done

Justice

Politics

Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people’s own sense of themselves as Iraqis, which was very strong. They’re a proud people, and they trace their historic roots way, way back.

Real

Running

Strong

Going to places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and various African countries you get to see very clearly what the cause and effect is. We finance the obnoxious elites in those countries and they exploit their people so we don’t have to say that we’re doing the exploiting but nevertheless we are benefiting from it.

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Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

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Daylight

Kicks

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Quotes by Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn

Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can’t be compared to what Saddam was doing to people.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can’t trust the Americans.

Anger is energy, and you’ve got to find a place to put it that works for you.

Beautiful rocks – beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river – covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people’s own sense of themselves as Iraqis, which was very strong. They’re a proud people, and they trace their historic roots way, way back.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

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