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May 17, 2008
This song, along with its absolutely brilliant video, is high art at its most relevant. By using children to depict real events (9/11, the Green Zone, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, suicide bombings, Bush claiming Mission Accomplished and uncoventional war) he is framing the most disturbing things in the most innocent setting. The juxtaposition makes it all the more distressing and therefore moving. The overall message I get from it: this is not a game! People are dying, it is insane and until we stop turning our heads away it will continue.