BRUCE COCKBURN - If I Had A Rocket Launcher

From Canadian Bruce Cockburn's 1984 album Stealing Fire.

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[Marilyn Taylor]

Bruce Cockburn from the nation of PEACEKEEPERS: Canada.

Before Stephen Harper began dismantling what our country stood for.

[71dhb]

Where the fuck was the UN when this shit was happening? or Pol Pot? or Pinot Ce or in Argentina or Rwanda? What a load of shit...

[MegaHawk93]

if i had rocket launcher

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i dont know really

[Paddy8111]

I know where the UN was during Rawandan genocides. France, a member of the UN, was supplying the Hutu Army with rifles, smg's, rpg's and a whole buttload of machetes. Then the UN said "Oh the horror, our hands are tied, why don't we give the order to help these people.....oh wait...it's over." The Tutsi's were the ruling class in Rawanda and they were removed by another ruling class. The same ruling class that founded and controls the UN.

[EasyEs]

Yes it is the 'Americans' who gave us a century of war. Not those enlightened Europeans.

[ThatzMrOcelot]

Yeah, but one needs to understand that the UN needs to be VERY careful about how, or even if they interfere (Don't get me wrong! I agree with you, they don't do nearly enough) but one false move in a crisis could easily lead to a much larger problem.

[Shareheya]

Good question. Don't know if it is true but I was told that there is an organization that wants to get the US out of the UN. Where was the UN? Didn't care. No money in it.

[SnakemanisJeff]

If I had a rocket launcher...I'd CENSORED....the CENSORED.....out of CENSORED

[CrawdaddyJoe]

Cuba doesn't carry out mass killings of its people, and the killings in Nicaragua were by right-wing contra forces trying to dislodge the Sandinista government- the FSLN overthrew a dictator, formed a democratic interim government, won two elections, only lost the third because of US intimidation ('Vote against the FSLN or we continue the murders'), and still was the most popular single party in that election, and was re-elected later. Educate yourself before you speak.

[Alec Gentry]

Oh, shut up, hippie. War is real and fighting and squaller are never going to go away as long as ANYTHING in nature exists, so you may as well not complain. Also, with every war America has been in, we've been fighting to either protect ourselves or an allied nation, or make lives better for the majority of the population in foreign countries. Quit 'cho bitchin'.

[William Collier]

The song could just have easily been about Cuba or Nicaragua as any other place: evil, regardless of its color or ideology is still evil.