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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/27/Artsandentertainment/Michael_Moore_helps_b.shtml
Michael Moore helps band go 'Boom!'
By GINA VIVINETTO, Times Pop Music Critic
© St. Petersburg Times
published March 27, 2003
One of the most provocative, political hard rock bands today, System of a Down, is in cahoots with Academy Award-winning documentary director Michael Moore. The band, of Armenian descent (recognize its members by their interesting beards), recently had Moore direct the video for its antiwar tune Boom!. This week, Moore won an Oscar for Bowling For Columbine, a documentary examining gun violence in America and got some boos for his antiwar rant onstage.
The video features footage from war protests around the world as well as satirical animated images of President George Bush, Saddam Hussein, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden riding atop rockets.
Daron Malakian, the band's guitarist, said in a statement that going to war with Iraq is an "extremely personal" issue for him "because I have family who live there."
"I visited Iraq when I was a teenager, and I can tell you first-hand that the people who I met there are really nice, ordinary people who don't war with us or with anyone."
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