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Pierce Brosnan attacks President Bush over `savage` war
MI6.co.uk ^ | 01/01/2006

Posted on 01/04/2006 3:16:20 AM PST by Panerai

Pierce Brosnan has attacked President Bush for starting "a savage war" in Iraq and harming the environment - reports The Mirror.

The former Bond star said: "I have nothing against Republicans but this government has made decisions which we are to suffer the consequences of for a long, long time.

"You want to have faith in your leaders but it's very hard to have faith in President George W Bush."

He added in another interview: "Look at what he's done to the environment and this savage war that has started."

The Irishman admitted he risked a backlash like other stars who have spoken out about Iraq. He told the New York Daily News: "You speak up as an actor and people will shoot you down hard and fast.

"But you don't speak as an actor. You speak as a man, a working actor with a family."

The 52-year-old star also insisted he was no longer angry about being dumped as James Bond, he said: "Too many people get bitter about this game."


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KEYWORDS: 007; balloonhead; blahblahblah; hollywood; hollywoodleft; jamesbond; piercebrosnan; remingtonsteele; shutupandsing
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To: Panerai
OK, Pierce. Put up or shut up. Name one thing, one single thing, that President Bush has done that harms the environment.
21 posted on 01/04/2006 3:46:42 AM PST by gridlock
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To: tcostell

Pierce Brosnan? Does anyone really care what he thinks? More importantly, does anyone really believe he thinks?


22 posted on 01/04/2006 3:48:34 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: tcostell
The funny thing is that his first major break came on Remington Steele where he played an extremely photogenic man who was as dumb as a stump. I guess it was type casting...
23 posted on 01/04/2006 3:48:54 AM PST by gridlock
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To: Panerai
Has Pierce Brosnan ever been to Iraq.....?

I didn't think so. Twit.

24 posted on 01/04/2006 3:49:41 AM PST by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: stevem

Well if we want to use Brosnan as an example then it takes ...none. And to give him credit, he seemed nice enough.... just a dunce.


25 posted on 01/04/2006 3:50:17 AM PST by tcostell
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To: tcostell

Dumb as a bag of hammers?

I've enjoyed him as an actor...I loved the remake of "The Thomas Crowne Affair", and thought he did the best job as Bond.

I read this, and this is not the same diatribe we see people like Sean Penn, Bill Maher or now, David Letterman making. He seemed to be reacting the way any of us might react if we were interviewed.


26 posted on 01/04/2006 3:50:31 AM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: Panerai

Bush is DOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMED!!!! Pierce Brosnan has come out against him.

What will George Bush do now?????

My guess is the President will pet his dog or something. Maybe feed the cat.


27 posted on 01/04/2006 3:51:09 AM PST by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned.)
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To: shekkian
That's normal for the entertainment biz.

They must all be drink the same brand of bottled water. ;D

We need to findout which brand to avoid it.

28 posted on 01/04/2006 3:52:36 AM PST by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Frenetic

From the discerning mind of the man who decided to star in "Dante's Peak."


29 posted on 01/04/2006 3:55:29 AM PST by Socratic (When civilization concedes to barbarity, civility is never the result.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
My list has been empty for many years. I do not care what some deviate on TV thinks or says. I have learned to start forming an opinion after I hear theirs. If they are for it I'm against it.

I would probably listen to John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Walter Brennan or some of the other old time movie stars if they were still around. My heroes have always been cowboys and I don't mean gay sheepherders.
30 posted on 01/04/2006 4:01:38 AM PST by seemoAR
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To: Vaquero

He's not English - he's an Irishman with an American passport. . . .


31 posted on 01/04/2006 4:03:08 AM PST by Anglophilestine
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To: Panerai

double 0 zero:>( :>=


32 posted on 01/04/2006 4:05:59 AM PST by wolfcreek
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To: Vaquero; Anglophilestine

He became an American citizen a while back.


33 posted on 01/04/2006 4:06:33 AM PST by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: BlessedBeGod

"He became an American citizen a while back" - Yes he did, and if I recall right, the reason he gave for getting his citizenship was so that he can vote against Bush in the last election.


34 posted on 01/04/2006 4:08:46 AM PST by Panerai
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To: Anglophilestine
... with an American passport. He was granted US citizenship some months back. He must have had to take an "Oath of Allegiance" to the US, or don't they make them do that anymore?
35 posted on 01/04/2006 4:09:26 AM PST by SR 50 (Larry)
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To: Panerai
...and if I recall right, the reason he gave for getting his citizenship was so that he can vote against Bush in the last election.

That sounds familiar to me. I think you're right.

36 posted on 01/04/2006 4:09:40 AM PST by BlessedBeGod (Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
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To: Panerai

I wish someone would be specific when they talk about what GWB had "done to the environment."

And as for the war, it's brutal, yes, but look at the Iraqi people. They're no longer being fed into meat grinders. They've been liberated and are voting. They can speak their minds in public. They have a wonderful future ahead of them.


37 posted on 01/04/2006 4:10:29 AM PST by alnick
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To: Panerai
The Irishman admitted he risked a backlash like other stars who have spoken out about Iraq. He told the New York Daily News: "You speak up as an actor and people will shoot you down hard and fast.

What a dishonest From what I've seen and heard coming out of Hollywood and New York I'd have to say that this statement is 180 degrees from true. The vast majority of the powers that be in the entertainment industry are unabashed, flaming, anti-American leftists.

If Brosnan had issued a statement saying that he fully supported the war in Iraq and understood Bush's reasoning in going in, his career would be even more moribund than it is now.

I don't think he's being dishonest. I think he and others in Hollywood see the world through such warped lenses that they believe this is true.

38 posted on 01/04/2006 4:15:30 AM PST by Ranald S. MacKenzie (Its the philosophy, stupid.)
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To: Ranald S. MacKenzie

Scratch the "What a dishonest" from the second paragraph in my post above. Oops.


39 posted on 01/04/2006 4:17:33 AM PST by Ranald S. MacKenzie (Its the philosophy, stupid.)
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To: shekkian

"He's the most photogenic man I've ever seen in person, but he's as dumb as a stump.
That's normal for the entertainment biz."

Yeh. I agree with what Michael Savage said, "Hollywood actors mouth other peoples words; they don't have any thoughts of their own" or something to that effect.


40 posted on 01/04/2006 4:20:58 AM PST by RoadTest (The reason we adopt dogs is that we can't make them ourselves.)
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