Posted on 05/28/2004 12:32:42 PM PDT by sandbar
McCartney speaks out against war
Sir Paul wrote a song, Freedom, after the 11 September attacks Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has criticised the UK government for being too hasty in going to war in Iraq. "Maybe our government went in too fast with the Americans," he told the weekly Portuguese magazine Visao on Thursday.
"It would have been better if the UN had been together," the 61-year-old singer continued. "Now it's become very bloody with Iraq, it's very difficult."
The singer, who is currently touring Europe, opens the Rock in Rio music festival in Lisbon on Friday.
Sir Paul said he understood the need to act after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
To look for Bin Laden seemed reasonable to go against terrorism, but the war has become very difficult
Sir Paul McCartney "If someone came to my house and blew it up, I wouldn't just want to sit there and say thank you," he said.
"I'd be angry like I think anyone would be, so I could see America and Britain being angry.
"To look for Bin Laden seemed reasonable to go against terrorism, but the war has become very difficult."
Sir Paul, who became a father for the fourth time last October, wrote a song, Freedom, after witnessing the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
The Rock in Rio festival - modelled on an annual Brazilian festival which has been running since 1985 - is held over the next two weekends.
Britney Spears and Peter Gabriel are among the more than 70 performers taking part in the event, held at Lisbon's Bela Vista Parque.
Sir Paul's performance is part of a European tour which began in the Spanish city of Santander on Tuesday.
My thoughts, exactly...so I checked the BBC site and that is the way they headlined this little item.
The headline was inflammatory!
But then....that's the Bloody British Crap....i'nt it? (sic)
With Mrs. tractorman
BTW "Happiness is a warm gun" is a Beatles song.
Perfectly content with milling around in the middle of the school, counting on saftey in numbers for his survival, while cheerfully saying I'm glad it was them and not me.
Aw Paul you're such a weenie. Go sittown idiot and shut your pie hole.
Again...
"SHUT UP, PAUL!"
"To look for Bin Laden seemed reasonable to go against terrorism, but the war has become very difficult."
Duhhhh... War IS difficult! Especially when dealing with TERRORIST groups and regimes! How hard is THAT to understand?!?
"If someone came to my house and blew it up, I wouldn't just want to sit there and say thank you," he said.
- o.k., so WHAT is your gripe, Paul? Oh yeah, You've got to be 'hip' and 'politically correct' and 'Love is the answer'-even when dealing with EVIL people who want to wipe people like you and me and our children off the face of the earth at ANY cost for no particular reason except that we are NOT them!
Too many years doing too many drugs, my friend....
For the sake of YOUR children and grandchildren, WAKE UP!!!
there ya go!
My sense is that Paul is a bit of a weenie but not a bad guy.
He is stating an obvious fact, the war has become difficult. Remember all the support, songs and fund-raisers he did after 9-11? He's a liberal of course and a pal to Clinton but far more decent than most of them have been, it seems.
Thank you.
I liked their music back in the 60’s but didn’t really pay attention to who wrote what.
Agreed. The article has little to do with the title. I wouldn't call these comments "coming out against the Iraq war."
How dare he express an opinion!!
actually all beatles songs were credited to lennon/mccartney (except for harrison songs of course), but you could always tell who really wrote them by who was singing...at least that's what george martin says.
actually all beatles songs were credited to lennon/mccartney (except for harrison songs of course), but you could always tell who really wrote them by who was singing...at least that's what george martin says.
Not so long ago, we were children, watching the Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles appeared on the screen. Our parents were shocked and said that the Beatles didn't make sense and looked abominable--like girls with mops on their heads.
We should have listened to our parents.
my exact feeling....
very goood. I'll take Lennon for $200, Alex.
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