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Posted on 03/13/2006 8:49:19 AM PST by presidio9
Colombia's ambassador to the United States is criticizing Bruce Willis for comments he made during a press conference to promote his new film, "16 Blocks."
The actor said the United States should consider "going to Colombia and doing whatever it takes to end the cocaine trade."
In a harshly worded letter made public, Andres Pastrana told the actor that the source of the lucrative cocaine trade was an "enormous appetite for drugs, in particular in the United States and Europe."
Pastrana, who as president in 2000 launched an anti-drug effort with billions in aid from the United States, added that no country has sacrificed more than his own to rein in drug trafficking. Every year, he said, thousands of innocent civilians are killed as a result of anti-drug efforts.
Inviting Willis to visit Colombia, Pastrana said "if you accept, you will see that, beyond Hollywood cliches, 44 million Colombians are waging a real war against drugs."
President Alvaro Uribe called the actor arrogant and ignorant last week, saying his comments were "a shock to Colombia's dignity."
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Reality: "If WE invaded, WE'D be getting the profits, not those filthy Columbians."
Ya gotta watch that kind of thing - engineering a bread mold to eat coca. No telling how that organism's appetite will change next.
IMO, Bruce Willis is right and the weak-kneed "ambassadors" are just that: weak kneed. All they know is Talk, talk, talk. No action.
If I were ever in a serious pinch, I would want Bruce very nearby, not some "ambassador".
"My plan would take care of the drug problem at the source and at the demand.....
Poison 10% of the market and watch the addicts drop like flies and the r&r users dry up.
I will not shed tears."
Real smart murder people for their own safety. I think you get the dumbass of 2006 award.
What's Bruce Willis have against Free Trade?
You proposed to POISON them.
Nope!
I proposed to poison the illegal drug supply.
If I poisoned dog crap would you be incensed?
Your choice to take the 10% risk of getting the spiked drug or eating the dog crap.
For me the choice is clear.
How about you?
Don't be offending the Columbians Bruce...we may need them to run one of our ports someday ;o)
They are currently our only ally in South America.
Canada Geese? Man, it doesn't take much to set you off, does it?
Don't forget the squirrels. You know, they've been talking about you.
Rudi Giuliani campaigned for mayor of New York stressing quality of life.
The first thing he did upon being sworn in was to clear the streets of squeegy men and clear out the bums loitering in Grand Central Station.
In a short time New York City entered a renaissance of business and tourism because he focused on the small things which were easiest to fix first.
Yes.....the Canada Goose problem is sometimes the biggest headache facing many small to mid-sized towns in the northern US.
Hmmm so you think it would be ok during prohibition to poison the alcohol supply to keep those drunks from getting wasted? The war on drug is a failure. It has allowed the federal government to use expanded views of the commmerce clause to enter other areas of our lives. DEA has powers that would scare the crap out of you. But who cares? Let's keep on truckin with a failed policy becuase no one wants to be the first to say it sucks.
And I would venture to say as much as I like Bruce Willis, that he has used cocaine before. No one that big in hollywood in the eighties didnt.
In fairness, I believe that only a retard would endorse poisoning drug addicts, but I would go along with any and all measures to forever exterminate nature's flying crap-factories.
Bring on the Grandfathers!
That's a really stupid idea. I like Willis, but this is just stupid.
Another example of why the 'War on Drugs' went off the hinges a long time ago.
So you are basically so against people making personal choices on what to put into their own bodies that you would murder people? Sounds like a fascist ideology to me.
"liberaltarains!" Oh, that gets funnier every time you post it! You're so furious that there are libertarians even in the same thread with you, you can hardly even spell it now. ROFLMAO! You are WAAAAAY too high on the UCI, pal!
I'm all for freedom of choice.....and I murder nobody!
Taking illegal and dangerous drugs is as sane as stepping in front of a speeding bus.
I'm not pushing the pedestrian nor am I driving the bus.
It doesn't take much intelligence to make the right choices.
Self-destructive behavior qualifies as a mental disease.
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