Texty: David Rovics. Good Kurds, Bad Kurds.

Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurdish people
Killed thousands in a single day
And twelve long years later
Uncle Sam said, "You can't treat your Kurds that way
And furthermore all Kurds are freedom fighters
Who'd resist this Iraqi tyranny"
So 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 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"

Yes, 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 massacred
We say this is genocide
Okay, 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 are a Kurd

Yes, 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

Yes, 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