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| 2003-02-07 |
| Dustin Hoffman has become the latest US star to voice his opposition to war with Iraq. Hoffman accused the Bush administration of "manipulating the grief of the country" after the events of September 11. The president's real motives for going to war are power and oil, he said. Damn. Didn't see that coming. He spoke out after receiving a lifetime achievement accolade at the Empire Film Awards in London. "For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible," he said. Yeah, we should've took at least another couple of hits before we're entitled to get pissed off. "I don't think, like many of us, that the reasons we have been given for going to war are the honest reasons. "If they are saying it's about the fact they have biological weapons and might have nuclear weapons and that gives us the liberty to pre-empt and strike because we think they might hit us, then what prevents Pakistan from attacking India, what prevents India from attacking Pakistan, what prevents us from going into North Korea? Nothing. They maybe next. "I believe - though I may wrong because I am no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil". Yeah, Barbra Striesand told me. But she didn't tell me what hegemony was. Hoffman pointed out that the US had once funded Saddam Hussein's regime even as he killed tens of thousands of Kurds. He added that he believed all politicians were incapable of telling the truth. As all actors seem to be incapable of shutting the f**k up. "If I was asked what is the most important aspect of being a politician, I would say getting re-elected. And when that's the goal, then all bets are off with the truth". ....and then he jumped into his 7MPG limo and was driven away. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #7 Aren't these the same people(along with sports stars)that do not belive the laws and moral standards the rest of us have to live under apply to them.How come the radical tree huggers are not torching his limo? Oh!I forgot he is a major star and can not be expected to live by the same standards as the rest of us. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-02-08 06:07:46 |
| #6 And if I were to be asked the most important aspect of being an actor I would say being a f**king idiot! Here's another prime candidate to be a human shield. |
| Posted by: Denny 2003-02-07 19:57:06 |
| #5 I thought I rememberd that quote, McCain said 'Washington is Hollywood for ugly people'. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-02-07 19:14:44 |
| #4 It wasn't Rumsfeld; it was McCain. Linked to on today's Opinon Journal: From a Washington Post report on the Washington Press Club Foundation congressional dinner: McCain, Republican maverick, former POW and Vietnam War hero, cracked in his speech that if "Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people," then, considering the remarks coming out of Tinseltown about Iraq, "Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded." |
| Posted by: growler 2003-02-07 17:16:42 |
| #3 Donald Rumsfield said... Washington is like Hollywood with ugly people. Hollywood is like Washington with intellectually challenged people. ...or something along those lines. God I wish I could find the exact quote. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-02-07 16:49:15 |
| #2 What really gets my goat is that he being Jewish, Saddam and his boys would like nothing better that to turn him into soap. He needs to read more Herman Wouk. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2003-02-07 16:07:23 |
| #1 Please read this:
It's a very funny indictment of celebrities who mouth off inanities. |
| Posted by: growler 2003-02-07 16:07:06 |