Blah, blah, blah. It's all diarreah of the mouth.
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.
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!!!
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.
Very few comments from Sir Paul with a whole lotta paraphrasing and emphasis from the BBC.
"Maybe our government went in too fast with the Americans...""It would have been better if the UN had been together..."
"Now it's become very bloody with Iraq, it's very difficult."
Then again...
"If someone came to my house and blew it up, I wouldn't just want to sit there and say thank you...""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."
Very little text and a whole lot of editorializing from the BBC.
Where does he say that the war was wrong? That would be "against" the war. Where does he say that it was wrong to go without the support of the UN? He just says it would have been "better".
He says that maybe the British government was too quick to join in (and maybe they weren't). He doesn't speak out against America going in.
If the UN and the media had been FOR this war, it would have been a lot less bloody. Their opposition has aided the enemy.
Can anyone point me to Visao's website? I assume it is in Brazil. I'd like to see what else he said, regardless of what the editors paraphrased.
It is not http://www.visao.com.br/ (that is an electronics store).
Britain `rushed' into Iraq war, says ex-Beatle McCartney
``Everything would have been much simpler if things in Iraq had taken place with the backing of the United Nations.''
"things in Iraq" would be the war effort. Still pro-war, still pro-toppling Saddam.
The media is playing the masses for a fool. All of the editors chose to redact the article. I would like to see the original.
Even this quote seems to discuss the media's fascination with the protestors over what has been accomplished and what we are still trying to accomplish:
"The current situation reminds me of Vietnam... you have the impression that everyone's lost their head and no one remembers the reasons that led to the military operation."
These comments are pretty benign. I'm not even sure Paul is "speaking out against the war", as the scumbag headline writer suggests. All he says is, "the war has become very difficult."
Big deal.