[Military family member]

"Springsteen was asked by Soledad O'Brien if getting flak about his political views, such as backing John Kerry in 2004, made him wonder if musicians should try so hard to be taken seriously on topical issues."

"They should let Ann Coulter do it instead?" he mused, with a chuckle. Then he said, "You can turn on the idiots rambling on, on cable television, every night of the week -- and they say musicians shouldn’t speak up? It’s insane, it’s funny," he said, laughing.

He called politics "an organic part of what I’m doing. ... It’s called common sense. I don’t even see it as politics at this point.''

As for the Iraq war, he commented, "You don’t take your country into a major war on circumstantial evidence -- you lose your job for that. That’s my opinion and I don’t have a problem voicing that. Some people have a problem with that, others don’t."

The questions were brought to him...he didn't throw the comment out.

[Renegade]

"You don’t take your country into a major war on circumstantial evidence -- you lose your job for that. "

Since when did Springsteen ever have a job??? He really was one of the best till he got demorat on the brain . What a freakin' a$$hole he turned out to be .

[StJacques]

". . . You don’t take your country into a major war on circumstantial evidence . . ."

Victims of Saddam's Poison Gas Attack on Halbja, May 1988

[kms61]

He was right about the talking heads. A pox on all of them, of every ideological persuasion. I have no use for them.

He also threw in the line-"present company included," which was a direct shot at his interviewer. That was apparently edited out of this story.