The music video is the first in which the members of Audioslave do not appear in the music video. Chris Cornell explained, "It wouldn't have been a plus, it would have been a minus, that story is that story, and the members of Audioslave appearing in whatever form would only take away from how amazing the story is."
Tim Commerford's opinion about the video was, "I think a lot of other people will cry when they see it, there aren't many videos that can do that to you-and still have a blistering guitar solo and a killer, kick-ass beat...I didn't know Little League boxing existed, and it's real, little kids actually go box and people love it. It makes sense, but it's barbaric."
Some of the footage seen is of an actual fight that Vinny Intrieri fought in at The Blue Horizon.
Tom Morello said of the video and its relation to the Iraq War, "We were all against the war from the very beginning, but now, I think you're seeing more and more that Middle America is turning against the war for reasons that are described in this video. The real human cost, the human tally of this awful war is shown in a very subtle, very real and very humanistic way. That's why it has such a great weight to it, because it personalizes this tragedy that's happening halfway around the world."