Lyric discussion by horse_tamer 

jamie said in an interview that he had watched or heard footage of soldiers in iraq pumping themselves up for thier "missions" in a "let's go blow some fucking heads off" kind of way. this resembles what jocks do before a game (mission).

and really is it not blatantly obvious that a very very very large percentage of soldiers were most likely ex-jocks.

i think they carry that brutally competitive, win at any cost, attitude with them to war.

taught to win. winning being the most important mission for them.

that dynamic of their personalities is what jamie, i believe, is refering to. and there is nothing childish about that. it is legitamate.

and regarding his brutal description of the four year old girl's death...its just a very crude but true depiction of situations that iraqi families have been put in.

"please sir, can i take her body home"

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