I Woke Up One Morning

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.

Music Itself Isn't Enough To Completely Wear Down My Stash Of Anger. And I Don't Have All That Much More To Be Angry About Than Anyone Else. It's Not Like I Was Abused As A Kid Or Anything. I Had A Pretty Comfortable Childhood With Parents Who Took Good Care Of Me. But Resentment Exists, And Some Of It Goes Into The Music. Some Of It Goes Into Physical Activity.

A Number Of Iraqis Told Us They Had Welcomed The U.s. Forces As Liberators Initially But In The Intervening Months, They Had Come To Feel That They Had Swapped One Oppressive Regime For Another. The Iraqis Did Exchange One Oppression For A Lighter Kind, In Some Ways.

There Are Some Decision-makers In The World Whose Version Of Sanity Is A Little Different From What I Consider The Right One.

The Trouble With Normal Is It Only Gets Worse.