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Neil Young

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Neil Young

War

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Neil Young is expressing his dislike for war itself and is especially critical of how the government seems to praise or glorify it. He believes that this kind of celebration by those in power is inappropriate and problematic.

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