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| Hollywood Brain Trust comes out for Sammy... |
| 2002-12-11 |
| IslamOnline 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 âwar talk in Washington is alarming and unnecessary.â "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 âThe West Wing.â That would certainly qualify him to have an opinion, wouldn't it? In Washington âthey made up their minds a long time ago about going to war. (Itâs a) personal feud, thatâs part of it,â 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 âa tendency of this administration is to imply that anyone who opposes them is somehow less loyal and patriotic. Thatâs not right.â 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... âWe support rigorous U.N. weapons inspections to assure Iraqâs effective disarmament. However, a preemptive military invasion of Iraq will harm American national interests,â said the signatories in their letter. âSuch 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 â who gives a fart about a bunch of Arabs, anyway?" "We reject the doctrine â a reversal of long-held American tradition that our country, alone, has the right to launch first-strike attacks,â 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 âvalid 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.â "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 |
| #10 I sorted them into various categories ("NAME SOUNDS FAMILIAR, TOO TIRED TO GO TO IMDB","ENEMIES OF HUMANITY","USED TO THINK THEY WERE ONE OF THE GOOD ONES/HASN'T WORKED SINCE VOYAGER", etc.) here. |
| Posted by: Lonewacko 2002-12-12 00:00:23 |
| #9 Arent many actors Jewish? Have they ever heard the phrase "never again"? Do these pinheaded idiots not understand that the al-queada is TRYING TO KILL US? |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2002-12-11 17:54:21 |
| #8 Well Mia Farrows' a maroon and REM are bloody boring, but Samuel L Jackson? Bugger! - I always thought he was a top bloke. Where's Charlton Hestons response - now there's a guy you can trust! |
| Posted by: Tony 2002-12-11 17:32:04 |
| #7 God,it's just like Woodstock."If we all think really hard,maybe we can stop this rain!No rain!No rain!No rain!..." |
| Posted by: El Id 2002-12-11 16:45:11 |
| #6 Ship all of them to Pakistan and air more reality shows. |
| Posted by: PJ 2002-12-11 16:10:31 |
| #5 The great line 'Washington is hollywood for ugly people' has a parallel opposite, "Hollywood is Washington for dumb people" The day we start taking our foreign policy ideas from hollywood is the fir day of the second Carter administration. |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2002-12-11 13:07:39 |
| #4 Let us retire to the national bathroom, there to explore our collective sexuality! that's a nice way of calling them jerkoffs |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-12-11 12:59:11 |
| #3 Téa Leoni signed? Aw, crap. {8^( Janeane Garofalo too? Double crap. |
| Posted by: John B. 2002-12-11 12:42:58 |
| #2 Here'e the list of these fine upstanding "celebrities" http://www.msnbc.com/news/845854.asp?cp1=1 1/3 usual suspects, 1/3 people you never heard of, 1/3 people you thought were dead. The correct term for them would probably be "Hollywood's Expansion Team". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2002-12-11 12:18:35 |
| #1 At least the Canadian fools were kind enough to go over and serve as |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-12-11 12:15:58 |