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April 22, 2007 7:20 PM PDT
McCain's 'Bomb Iran' song was anti-Muslim?
Posted by Declan McCullagh
On Friday, we reported that YouTube erroneously deleted a video of
presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu ditty about
starting a war with Iran.
McCain had joked about it during a a campaign stop in South Carolina
last week, singing: "That old, that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway."
There was a song called "Barbara Ann," first performed by The Regents
and made popular by the Beach Boys.
But a group called Vince Vance and the Valiants actually released the
"Bomb Iran" song during the 1979 hostage crisis, and the lyrics are
clearly anti-Muslim, at least by today's standards. (It's available on
Amazon.com.)
An excerpt from the full lyrics:
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks.
Tell the Ayatollah..."Gonna put you in a box!"
Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Our country's got a feelin'
Really hit the ceilin', bomb Iran.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.
Ol' Uncle Sam's gettin' pretty hot.
Time to turn Iran into a parking lot. Bomb Iran...
It's not clear whether McCain was thinking of the Vince Vance lyrics,
or merely joking about dropping high explosives on Iranian civilians,
but it was enough for the Arab American Institute to get worried. In a
statement, the group called on McCain to disavow his remarks.
On Thursday, McCain had defended "Bomb Iran," saying: "Lighten up and
get a life.' Asked if his choice of songs was insensitive, McCain
said, according to the Associated Press: "Insensitive to what? The
Iranians?"
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