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.
Some of those songs were actually penned by George but placed under Lennon/McCartney.
Thank you Mister Know-It-All.
Who's George Martin?
They always gave outrageous interviews. Huge fun, many chuckles.
*sigh*... Paul, why can't you just let it be, eh?
They gave a LOT of those interviews under the influence of substances (legal and illegal) that don't do much for the ability to formulate rational thought patterns.
Blah, blah, blah. It's all diarreah of the mouth.
Wait. That's a Stevie Wonder song.
At least he didn't say anything all that bad. I thought from the headline he had ripped Bush and Blair a new one. :-) Too bad he is listening to the stupid media however.
misleading headline, frankly, we might want to read what he said rather than that headline before jumping on Sir Paul.
Paul,
I am always curious to know why you haven't done any decent music since your solo album after your band the Beatles broke up.
For years I kept waiting for little tunes that would touch an emotion or brighten a day, and well I got tired of waiting. I couldn't accept the idea that you were washed out, a has-been. Some said you got too rich and you stopped trying, struggling and feeling what most of humanity goes through.
So now you're out there talking about things you really don't know about because you're a celebrity. But ask yourself, do you really believe you're exempt from the ecological fallacy that your celebrity makes you an expert? Do you even know what it means?
Go ahead and snipe to the press. We can all run the tongue with opinions. But you are not accountable are you? Have you ever thought of representing your country's citizens and making tough decisions? I'm sure you haven't. What does that make you? Answer: Lighter then fluff.
Well Paul, nothing personal but it't time to forget you and any of your doings after that wonderful first solo album. There was once the great Paul McCartney who morphed into some sort of idle nothingness. What else can be said? Oh, of course, what John said:
"THE ONLY THING YOU DID WAS YESTERDAY"
"Now it's become very bloody with Iraq, it's very difficult."
Bloody and very difficult....for the terrorists, not for the US.
Why do we give a tinker's damn what a musician has to say.
Just because money talks, doesn't mean we have to listen. Paul may be a knight, but he didn't earn his knighthood by proving himself in battle. My Chihuahua, Brandy, knows more about warfare and survival than a beetle.
Nowhere man.
Actually, how dare anyone take his opinion on this topic seriously enough to publish it.
ah, but he never opens his mouth when iran wars on its own people or on israel via suicide bombers.... selective peace activists.
"Now it's become very bloody with Iraq."
Here's a little perspective, Paul.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation.
We've been looking for WMD's in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm records.
It took less time for the 3RD Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Teddy Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida.
So by all means Paul, SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
Granted, but what are you gonna do? It's the nature of the beast.
I am going to watch them need, threaten more, and need more, and threaten more and outspend themselves and need more, until they rot bad enough and I grow strong enough to overcome them.
No big deal. This doesn't sound like he is coming out against it. He's just saying it's difficult and things would have been better if the UN had been organized in it.
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