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Where Is The Anti-War Movement?

By Gil Kaufman

These protesters generally have little kind to say about Bush, but few flame the president as hard as Timz (a.k.a. Tommy Hanna), an American-born rapper of Iraqi descent who eviscerates the war and the commander in chief in the clip for his song, "Iraq." Wearing a black hoodie and rapping in front of a background that shifts from the desert to quick-cut images of dead bodies, exploding shells and prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib, the smooth-flowing MC raps, "Dear Mr. George Bush, why do you insist to make a fool of us?/ For over 200 years we stood for what's good, now we're despised by our peers/ And what do you do but add fuel to the fire and send in more troops."

The song, which bumps on a Middle Eastern groove, features the ready-for-radio refrain, "There's a war goin' on outside/ No birds 'round here, just bullets that fly/ There's a war goin' on outside/ There's death everywhere but I feel so alive."

Timz said he was inspired to record the song more than a year ago because of his ethnic heritage, as well as his anger as an American over the way the war was being conducted. "Ever since the beginning of the war, my heart wasn't into it, I didn't agree with it ... Looking at everything, you kind of feel helpless," he said.

"What ever happened to WMD's? What happened to all of that stuff that our soldiers are risking their lives for?" he continued. "So it's like, 'How can I get my voice heard, how can I say something and make a difference?' So naturally, being a musician, if you're making music, you put a lot of feelings and thoughts and emotions into your song, and I have plenty of thoughts and emotions and feelings about the war, so it's just natural that I'm gonna put my message out through music."

The rapper said that he's hoping that by using hip-hop as his medium he'll inspire more young people to get involved.

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[nubiancerebra]

As an anti-colonialist African American I *OPENLY* SUPPORT *ARMED* RESISTANCE for Palestinians, Iraqis & Lebanese against the U.S. & Israel. I'M *SERIOUS* ABOUT LIBERATION - BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY! That's the only way oppressed people will free themselves from U.S. or Zionist invaders. Those oppressors didn't go in nonviolently; their victims have no obligation to resist nonviolently. My "We Shall Overcome", would be an RPG. Malcolm X: "I'm nonviolent with anyone who is nonviolent with me."

[alhadithi2011]

fuck u.s.a

[mestry]

you mean Iraq: 1,200,000 + and USA: 9,000 +

[xxiraqigurlxx]

Iraq: 100,000 +

US: 2, 300 +

Nuclear Weapons Found: 0

How many more deaths over a pointless war?!

[RevRoach]

Why not more bigger protest?

"four dead in ohio"

They can kills us now.

Fuck the kops (killers of people)

Public protest is not legal in a nazi state and this is what the U.S. has turn into.

Take the power back!

[JimmyC1983]

fuck u dickhear we're gonna nuke ur ass

[iraqkid93]

fuck white ppl

flippin white pussyholes

[kaldzzz]

Fuck islam. stop bringing muslims to north america, kick all the muslims out. A good muslim is a dead muslim. bring all the christians out of middle east. Nuke the middle east. then take their oil. ur iraqi boy has spoken wisely.

[nextman6515]

your spot on, how can we expect them to greet us with open arms when we're gatecrashing their country, ruining their economies, killing their sons and fathers and causing civil wars?

[TheBreadCrumbs]

man fuck THE VIEW, i just dont like watching some fatass old lady sreaming and shit, annoying as fuck.