Update 12/2/11: Cass McCombs debuts song “Bradley Manning”
Musician Cass McCombs debuts “Bradley Manning” song:
Cass McCombs – “Bradley Manning” MP3
When Bradley moved back from western Wales
His Okie accent still wouldn’t fail
Sleeping in his pickup truck, his Soul wouldn’t calm
He wrote to his mother, “I’m nobody now, Mom”It’s hard to imaging why bullies dig
But Bradley understood it came with the gig
He wanted an education with all his will
So he walked in and signed up to get that GI bill“I want…”
Today, those who got up in Bradley’s face
Wish to remain anonymous, in their disgrace
They spread rumors around he wet himself scared
Even if that’s true, I don’t really care“Recycled” from Iraq and stationed at Fort Drum
His boyfriend introduced him to Triskelion
He met the hacktivists at MIT
“Randomly hung out with some pikans”; “At last, people like me”“I want…”
Deployed to Base Hammer, near Iran
Built from freight containers and sheer boredom
The bullies on the base went in for the kill
They said, “We have a saying here: Shit rolls downhill”On leave in Boston, but his boyfriend had flown
Bradley wrote him on Facebook: “I have no real home”
And before the Builds launch party, he went on to vent:
“Bradley Manning is not a piece of equipment”“I want…”
While passwords are written on sticky notes
And stuck to laptop screens, Bradley explodes
Found in a storeroom stabbing a chair
Bradley carved, “I want…” with a passion that’s all-too rareNow he’s due to be court-martialed this December
To prove bullying is better than a wild temper
Now, when we say “I want”, we invoke his chair
Bradley, know you have friends, though you’re locked in there“I want…”
Ahead of Manning’s first court date, Cass McCombs also did an instrumental version of the song this morning on Democracy Now!
I think anyone with with an iq over 80 should have known that the Iraq war was a fraud started by a true murderer George Bush. Remember him being interviewed on the golf range just before he started the shock and awe of the bombing in Iraq killing thousands of innocent Iraqui and add at least 4000-5000 Americans killed and thousands with various body parts blown away . Bastard Bush should be tried and convicted of murder.