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.
SHUT UP AND SING
-- Joseph Myerson, 1873-1956
Oh, well if Sir Paul thinks it's wrong, well... I am too young to remember the Beatle fascination and too old to care what some foreign entertainer thinks about our choices.
Still, these comments are pretty tame and qualified.
Let's all hold hands and sing several choruses of "All You Need is Love" and the mean old terrorists will like us ad be very sorry for their actions and will make us their friends and be like all good from now on and then we can all get together for fun parties and go to the beach and stuff and meet for dinner and be the best of buds and like yos know can't we all just not be mean anymore?..............
It would have been better, but too many members of the security council (and other parts of the UN) were on Saddam's payroll for that to have ever happened.
Happiness is a warm gun.
They were you idiot. Together they were trying to undermine everything we did because they were in bed with Saddam. What part of that don't you understand? Do I have to make it into a musical for you?
On second thought, don't sing either.
when the bagpipes come in i get chills every time!
The BBC headline is misleading. McCartney only offers a criticism, not a condemnation.
thats a lennon song.
Yes. Sensationalism
Shut up, Paul.
It's very well done. I think better than anything he did with the Beatles. It will be his most lasting song.
I agree with you--I read the headline on Drudge and was disappointed and reluctant to read the article (I'm a big fan) but his comments are quite tame and seem like more of a question than a criticism of our (US & UK) governments.
how do you sleep at night?
The BBC misleading? I can hardly believe it. They are such a bastion of truth!
Rocky Racoon?
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