Rule the World with Love

Oh and the War in Iraq. Apparently the USA "loves" the Iraqi people, and went to Iraq for the "sole" purpose of giving freedom to Iraq. I love it how people can change the reason for war when the original reason fizzles out. The republicans accuse the left of spin, well, how much more spinning can you get when you suddenly say WMD, which is all they talked about, was not the real reason, it was for freedom. Time and time again your own intelligence agencies report NO connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden and yet republicans refuse to admit this. Congradulations, you are the new masters of spin. And apparently, now you claim, you went to war out of "LOVE" for the Iraqi people. Don't give us this bullshit.

I really dig all their new stuff.

I think this song might be about how Love, as defined by man or by God, can be just as destructive as war. There might be more to it than that, I dunno.

I think this is another (I've counted 3 so far on the new album, and I haven't listened to it very carefully yet) political, anti-Bush, anti-war song.

I love "I need to love you with an iron fist;" it so captures all Bush's scary Orwellian double-speak.

I definitely agree with gravity defiant. I think this song shows how we as humans were given the opportunity to rule the world with love ("though it was handed to us we refused to rule the world w/love."). Instead of doing this responsibly, we have screwed it up by misconstruing love to be something you can conquer others with and use it as justification for wars that are in reality doing nothing loving.

I think it's about a government which "loves" its people, in fact, it "loves" them to death. Kind of like the 1984 "Big Brother" or these sort of propaganda government in North Korea, where they apparently claim to "love" the people, to the point of mass executions, promoting war, and how some religions control people by using "love" and definied by "god" it's the ultimate propaganda device. Again, I agree with Gravity defiant and yet I also agree with Prayingmantis84. It's also about how love (or claimed love) for the people can drive the worst acts of humanity.

^ Thanks for posting the political rant that I self-censored out of my first post. It needed to be said. :D