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TV prez acts up in war ad
New York Daily News ^ | 2/20/03 | Helen Kennedy

Posted on 02/20/2003 1:27:43 AM PST by kattracks

WASHINGTON - President Bush not only has a growing number of Democrats taking him on, now President Bartlet is stepping into the lists.

Actor Martin Sheen, who plays fictional President Josiah Bartlet on NBC's "The West Wing," is headlining a new anti-war ad campaign.

"Our message to Washington will be clear," Sheen says in an ad that will start airing today. "Don't invade Iraq. We can contain Saddam Hussein without killing innocent people, diverting us from the war on terrorism and putting us all at risk."

Sheen's ad will help launch a "virtual march on Washington" set for Wednesday. Activists hope peaceniks will swamp D.C. with a coordinated flood of calls, faxes and E-mails on that day.

Participants who register at the group's Web site - WinWithoutWarUS.org - will be directed to make their phone calls at specific times. The idea is to record one call per minute at the White House and in every Senate office.

The group was beaten to the domain WinWithoutWar.org. That site urges nuking Baghdad and says "this message NOT brought to you by actors that think we care what they say."

Helen Kennedy



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 02/20/2003 1:27:43 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
These pusillanimous quislers are forging a world where their brand of smut and degeneracy will be quashed with swords to their smarmy necks when the Islamics obtain the nuclear blackmail these hollywood stumps are fostering.
2 posted on 02/20/2003 1:30:38 AM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN; dansangel
We need to encourage these poeple to be human shields in IRAQ, and we won't have to fire a shot Sadam will kill them for us......
3 posted on 02/20/2003 1:36:45 AM PST by .45MAN (If you don't like it here try and find a better country)
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To: kattracks
What disturbs me the most about the celebrities posturing is that one of the most signficant reasons that Islamic extremists hate us is.... HOLLYWOOD. The impression that the rest of the world gets of us is primarily the trash that hollywood threshes out - the sex, the violence, the greed, the utter shameless excess in every direction. The entire world thinks America is a cesspool.

These celebs should be APOLOGIZING to the rest of the country LOL
4 posted on 02/20/2003 1:37:54 AM PST by Tamzee (There are 10 types of people... those who read binary, and those who don't.)
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To: kattracks

Sheen says ... "Don't invade Iraq. We can contain Saddam Hussein without killing innocent people

Martin Sheen is an imbecile.

6 posted on 02/20/2003 2:00:14 AM PST by Grim
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To: kattracks
Actors live in a world of make believe where a clown like Martin Sheen actually thinks he has what it takes to be President of the world's only super power, where life and death decisions mean people live and die, not just get up, wipe off the ketchup and have another "take"

Actors who can't even manage their own families lives criticize a man like President Bush, and Tony Blair, who are responsible for the eating and sleeping of people all around the world by what they decide to do or not do.

When men like these hear about the rape and tourture and maiming and death, and cry and hold wives and sons and daughters of loved ones lost in a building just because they went to work on time, and they know if they don't do something about it more death and horror will rain down upon others whose only crime was to go to school or work that day

And on top of that they are forced to play some game trying to get the killers and their supporters to agree to some half assed resolution rather than go in and blow the son's of bitches into the fine mist they deserve...

That's when I thank God I'm an American who understands that there are leaders and sheep in the world, and we can thank our lucky stars the sheep we had for 8 years has been replaced by a man who knows who he is and what it means to head the most powerful nation on earth

7 posted on 02/20/2003 2:03:37 AM PST by The Wizard (Demonrats are enemies of America)
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To: kattracks

SEPTEMBER 14, 2002 4:40 P.M. EDT

CROWD: U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. I want you all to know --

Q Can't hear you.

THE PRESIDENT: I can't talk any louder. (Laughter.)

I want you all to know that America today -- that America today is on bended knee in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here, for the families who mourn. This nation stands with the good people of New York City, and New Jersey and Connecticut, as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens.

Q I can't hear you.

THE PRESIDENT: I can hear you. (Applause.) I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. (Applause.) And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. (Applause.)

CROWD: U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

THE PRESIDENT: The nation sends its love and compassion to everybody who is here. Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for making the nation proud. And may God bless America. (Applause.)

CROWD: U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

(The President waves small American flag.) (Applause.)

8 posted on 02/20/2003 2:18:30 AM PST by Grim
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To: kattracks
"ARE THEY FOR US OR AGAINST US?" (Updated Daily.)

9 posted on 02/20/2003 2:23:45 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Tamsey
What disturbs me the most about the celebrities posturing is that one of the most signficant reasons that Islamic extremists hate us is.... HOLLYWOOD. The impression that the rest of the world gets of us is primarily the trash that hollywood threshes out - the sex, the violence, the greed, the utter shameless excess in every direction. The entire world thinks America is a cesspool.

DITTO BUMP

10 posted on 02/20/2003 2:38:30 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: kattracks
Will we remember these pompous *sses when Hollywood is a smouldering radioactive ruin from a terrorist attack and the "Sword Of Militant Islam" has arrived at our very front door? I think we'll forget them even sooner than that.
11 posted on 02/20/2003 2:43:27 AM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: kattracks
"Don't invade Iraq. We can contain Saddam Hussein without killing innocent people, diverting us from the war on terrorism."

TRANSLATION: We can TRUST Saddam Hussein to take proper care of those chemical weapons and not sell them to bin Laden and crew.

ANALYSIS: Anyone who trusts Saddam Hussein is a FOOL.
12 posted on 02/20/2003 3:26:11 AM PST by libertylover
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To: kattracks
"Our message to Washington will be clear," Sheen says in an ad that will start airing today. "Don't invade Iraq. We can contain Saddam Hussein without killing innocent people, diverting us from the war on terrorism and putting us all at risk."

I am livid!!!! Where the H*ll does HE get off saying this. On whose authority and on what information? HE IS NOT QUALIFIED to make this type of statement! He is just another dingbat idiotic hollywood ACTOR.....do you hear that Martin? You are JUST AN ACTOR!!!!!! Your "advisors" and cabinet are JUST ACTORS TOO!!!! You are not the REAL POTUS!!!!

So, SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. You have no authority!

[/rant off]

Whew! That felt good.....

13 posted on 02/20/2003 3:36:51 AM PST by peteram (Former tag traded for an unknown tag to be named later)
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To: kattracks
"We can contain Saddam Hussein without killing innocent people, diverting us from the war on terrorism and putting us all at risk."

Doesn't Sheen realize that "terrorism" is a tactic used by our enemies; that killing as many innocents in a hit and run attack is their military strategy? If we want to win this war, we must remove the weapons that support and fuel this strategy.

Geeze, can Sheen possibly be this stupid?

14 posted on 02/20/2003 5:24:42 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia (May God bless President Bush and our troops)
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To: kattracks
We can contain Saddam Hussein without killing innocent people, diverting us from the war on terrorism and putting us all at risk."

This is so stupid on so many levels.

We've been "containing" Saddam for over ten years. He's still a brutal murderous dictator who kills his own people and who uses rape and torture to oppress them, he's still doing everything he can to obtain or develop weapons off mass destruction that he says he plans to use against one of our allies or against us, and he is still sponsoring terrorism. Containment clearly has not worked.

And why can't these morons understand that the upcoming war in Iraq is part of the overall war on terrorism?

Sheen is a freakin' idiot - but we already knew that.

15 posted on 02/20/2003 5:36:47 AM PST by Spiff
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To: Right_in_Virginia
He has been working on getting this stupid for years!
16 posted on 02/20/2003 5:39:38 AM PST by citabria
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To: kattracks
Hmmmm.... I wonder how the sponsors and producers of 'West Wing' would like getting 'a phone call a minute' -- on the same day?
17 posted on 02/20/2003 6:00:45 AM PST by Crowcreek
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To: kattracks
Keep that correspondence coming, Dem-wits! You're making a difference--in a nearby D.C. landfill.

Daddy's about to take his belt off. (Hint: The temper tantrums didn't work.)

The 60's are over, losers. Love it, OR LEAVE IT.

18 posted on 02/20/2003 6:07:48 AM PST by Knuckle Sandwich Combo
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To: Crowcreek
I wonder if these over-the-hill leftover flower children from the 60's realize how damn stupid they look out here in the "real world"......these people are in their own bubble....they have no clue.....
19 posted on 02/20/2003 6:32:49 AM PST by little-e
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To: kattracks
"We can contain Saddam Hussein ..."
Contain? Gee that sounds familiar. Oh, that's right! VIETNAM! Don't defeat - CONTAIN! Worked so well then, lets do it again!
20 posted on 02/20/2003 6:38:27 AM PST by bobsatwork
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