Actor Rupert Everett brands British soldiers 'pathetic, whining wimps'

Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 6:00 PM on 08th June 2008 | Julian Gavaghan

[MovementConservative]

Controversial actor Rupert Everett has accused British soldiers risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan of being "whining wimps", it emerged today.

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And comparing troops from now and then he said: “In Burton's day they were itching to get into the fray.

“Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now!

"The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit.

“I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!"

And risking further fury from veterans, the actor who once worked as a rent boy after running away from boarding school at age 15, told the Sunday Telegraph: “The whole point of being in the Army is going to war and getting yourself blown up.

“That and p***ing on prisoners. Yet we all get shocked by Abu Ghraib.

"But that's war. If you don't like that side of it, don't do it. Of course soldiers are going to p*** on the first prisoners they take. It goes with the territory."

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And speaking about Americans, he said: "I'm totally off the States now. The reaction to 9/11 and then George Bush - really, they've got very blobby as a nation.

"Now they are whiny victims whose language is entirely taken from two TV shows - Friends and Sex And The City - and there's nothing sexy about them any more.

“And that kind of semi-blindness about the rest of the world, which was attractive when America was exciting, is really unattractive now."

[Psycho_Bunny]

“Putz defined, please pick up the white courtesy phone”

[mylife]

"The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed

What a loon!

[redhead]

Well, Rupert would be an expert on pathetic whining wimps, now, wouldn’t he? I think if I were Rupert, I’d stay away from the pubs where the troops gather.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Seriously.....

WHO?

[FlingWingFlyer]

It sounds as though Rupert is “into” urinating on people. Kinky.

[FormerACLUmember]

Military advice from a flaming gay butt-monkey third rate failed actor?

I think not.

[usmcobra]

Some out of work actor vying for a new role...

[nesnah]

It figures:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000391/bio

[Sender]

"The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits."

Oh really? That's news to me. But I'm just a blobby American.

[ishabibble]

>>...the actor who once worked as a rent boy after running away from boarding school at age 15,...<<

[Anti-Bubba182]

I search the nam in IMDB, but even with a picture I don’t recall any performance.

[FormerACLUmember]

Seriously..... WHO?

He (she? it?) is a queer failed minor foreign actor. A forgotten footnote in the pages of movies.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Who cares about what a high school dropout, know-nothing fudge-packer has to say about anything.

[a_chronic_whiner]

 

More Cheese Rupert? 

[padre35]

What the heck is this guy ranting about?

Brit soldiers are cry babbying things, or he is mocking them and the US in general, or is trying to be sarcastic?

Either, way, I want that 20 seconds of my life back that I wasted reading his dribble..

[rawhide]

Well, from what I have seen from Basra;, and their capture by the Iranians; and Prince William's flyover at his girlfriends house; and the taking of helicopters to stag parties, then I think this guy is right in his assessment.

[Enchante]

"the actor who once worked as a rent boy"

Well at least we know his definition of manliness!! I wasn't sure what "rent boy" meant (although you can guess from the words), had to look it up. So Rupert the Gay Whore thinks he is an expert on how to fight wars. Amazing.

[denydenydeny]

“That and p***ing on prisoners.

a.k.a. an average Saturday night at Rupert's house.

[Sparky7450]

Oh and RUPERT has such insight into the military doesn’t he.

NOT!