Before anyone asks, no I don't put a ton of weight into Mustaine's political opinion normally. Mustaine is all over the place and IMO has shown himself to be a hypocrit at times. This interview is interesting though, and is one of the times he seems to have clarity.
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Mustaine also offered his views on the war in Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein. "It needed to happen," he said. "The Americans went in there to liberate Iraq. A lot of people don't think they were being liberated because France didn't join in, Germany didn't join in and neither did Russia. The reason they didn't join in was because they had billions of dollars in stake with building the oil fields in the North of Iraq.
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"People in the music business, in American, are talking bad about Bush…you know what? Shut the **** up! You're a musician; you don't know a thing about running a country!
Umm.. Read it, funny and interesting. Maybe he is really off the drugs? BTW just to make my point. Mustaine was a target of Tipper Gore's PMRC in the 80's, even writting lyrics against it. Yet Mustaine is a democrat who openly supported Gore in the 2000 election.
