Zack De La Rocha Releases Iraqi War Song

03/23/2003 7:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Darren Davis

(3/23/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- Former Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha has released his first song via the Internet in response to what he believes is an unjust war in Iraq. The first post-RATM song is titled "March Of Death," and it is available at his website to download for free. The music was made in collaboration with DJ Shadow.

De La Rocha wrote in a statement: "Without just cause or reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the Unites States, the Bush administration has headed to war. As I am writing this, bombs are raining on the defenseless civilians in Baghdad in a continuation of a policy that has already taken one million innocent Iraqi people. People just like us who want democracy, but find themselves cornered by a dictator on one side and naked U.S. aggression on another, and the oil beneath their country for which it appears they are to be massacred."

De La Rocha is not a fan of President George W. Bush, as the lyrics to "March Of Death" suggest: "This man child, ruthless and wild/Who gonna chain this beast back on the leash?/This Texas furor/For sure a/Compassionless con who serve a lethal needle to the poor/The cure for crime is murder?"

There's no word as to whether the song will be on De La Rocha's forthcoming solo album, which is due later this year.

-- Darren Davis, New York

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