Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Friday, February 16, 2007

It’s only Iraq and Roll (but we seem to like it)

During the early 1970s, anti-war activists like Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark traveled to North Vietnam and in the process, helped reveal the American strategy of bombing Vietnamese dikes. In 2006, rocker-rapper Kid Rock traveled to Iraq because, he says he wanted “to see exactly what the soldiers are going through … and let them know they’re in our hearts.” The times, they have a-changed.

In the latest issue of Blender Magazine, Kid Rock talks about the Christmas he spent in Baghdad. He tells his readers about “human feces literally spilling into the streets” and how “our troops deal with it every day.” There was no indication of how the actual citizens of Iraq felt about sewers that surely functioned better before the U.S. invasion.

Read Kid Rock article here