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Hollywood Brain Trust comes out for Sammy...
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About 100 U.S. television and film stars including Matt Damon, Anjelica Huston and Martin Sheen signed a petition released Tuesday against a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq, warning that “war talk in Washington is alarming and unnecessary.”
"I mean, it's Sammy's country. His people gave him 100 percent of the vote. They obviously love him. We should leave him alone!"
Samuel L. Jackson, Mia Farrow, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Tim Robbins and rockers REM also put their names on the list of those opposed to such a U.S.-led strike, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported Wednesday. Stars delivered the petition to the press at a Hollywood restaurant frequented by stars; on hand was Martin Sheen, who plays a fictional U.S. president on the NBC television series “The West Wing.”
That would certainly qualify him to have an opinion, wouldn't it?
In Washington “they made up their minds a long time ago about going to war. (It’s a) personal feud, that’s part of it,” said Sheen alluding to the Gulf War under then President George Bush, father of the incumbent, which did not bring down Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Well, I mean, Sammy did try and have the old man bumped off. So that's obviously why we're ready to go to war. It has nothing to do with what goes on in Iraq...
The petition, also signed by retired admiral Eugene Carroll and Edward Peck, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, was announced at a news conference hosted by Mike Farrell, who is co-founder of a new group called Artists United to Win Without War. Mike Farrell said “a tendency of this administration is to imply that anyone who opposes them is somehow less loyal and patriotic. That’s not right.”
Mike's gonna pop on over to Baghdad and win this one for us. It's not everybody who opposes things the administration does who's unpatriotic; it's just people like Farrell and Sheen...
“We support rigorous U.N. weapons inspections to assure Iraq’s effective disarmament. However, a preemptive military invasion of Iraq will harm American national interests,” said the signatories in their letter. “Such a war will increase human suffering, arouse animosity toward our country, increase the likelihood of terrorist attacks, damage the economy, and undermine our moral standing in the world. It will make us less, not more, secure."
"It'll destabilize the Middle East, and where would we be then? So don't worry about people having their ears cut off in Iraq — who gives a fart about a bunch of Arabs, anyway?"
"We reject the doctrine — a reversal of long-held American tradition that our country, alone, has the right to launch first-strike attacks,” read the letter.
"Yeah. We already launched a second strike attack. Now it's their turn to hit us again..."
The signatories underlined that the “valid U.S. and U.N. objective of disarming Saddam Hussein can be achieved through legal diplomatic means. There is no need for war. Let us instead devote our resources to improving the security and well-being of people here at home and around the world.”
"Yes! Let us turn inward, and devote our attention to ourselves! Let us gaze deeply into the national navel! (Oh, is that lint? Eww! Ucky!) Let us retire to the national bathroom, there to explore our collective sexuality!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-12-11
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