David Rovics - Good Kurds, Bad Kurds lyrics

Saddam Hussein ga**ed the Kurdish people k**ed thousands in a single day And twelve long years later Uncle Sam said "you can't treat your Kurds this way "And furthermore all Kurds are freedom fighters "Who's resist this Iraqi tyranny "And Uncle Sam will give them guns and maybe sometimes ammunition "So the brave Kurds can fight until they're free" Meanwhile in southeastern Turkey The Turkish Army had a unique plan We'll go in and burn down three thousand villages Get rid of what they call Kurdistan Well some of these pesky Kurds decided That they would rather fight instead of die So Uncle Sam said, "You are terrorists "Because Turkey is our ally" Geopolitics is confusing In fact, it can be quite absurd Especially if you value your freedom You live in Turkey and you are a Kurd Yes, when Iraqi Kurds are ma**acred We say this is genocide OK, we armed the Army through the eighties But now we proudly take the Kurdish side But in Turkey it's an internal matter And for us to get involved would be wrong So we'll sell some tanks and 'copters to Ankara And hope these poor folks can get along Yes, geopolitics is confusing And you can't take the Yankees at their word At least that's distinctly how it looks If you live in Turkey and you're a Kurd So when they talk about American interests And it somehow seems that they're not yours Going all over the world Bombing countries and starting up wars You'd better leave it to the experts Go on back to your Playstations 'Cause our foreign policy only makes sense To CEO's of multinational corporations 'Cause geopolitics is confusing And if you feel like you're not being heard Just imagine how much worse it could be If you lived in Turkey and you were a Kurd.