Posted on 01/14/2009 1:52:24 AM PST by America2012
Actor MICKEY ROURKE sympathises with U.S. President GEORGE W. BUSH - insisting he doesn't know how any politician could have successfully navigated America after the 9/11 attacks on New York.
The Hollywood tough-guy spoke out about his political views in a candid interview with Britain's GQ magazine, and admits he doesn't understand why so many people blame Bush for a string of world issues - including Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in the West.
And the actor, who claims he didn't follow last year's (08) historic U.S. election battle between Barack Obama and John McCain, urges the public to consider the tremendous pressure the controversial president was under following the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.
He tells the publication, "President Bush was in the wrong place at the wrong time, I don't know how anyone could have handled this situation.
"I don't give a f**k who's in office, Bush or whoever, there is no simple solution to this problem... I'm not one of those who blames Bush for everything. This s**t between Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it.
"It's too easy to blame everything on one guy. These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don't think that anyone really knows quite what to do."
Rourke also confesses he was so angry after 9/11, he wanted to fight the war on terror himself.
He adds, "I'm not politically educated. But I do know that after 9/11 I wanted to go over there, you know what I'm saying?"
And the star is baffled by the U.K.'s approach to fundamentalists - insisting he was taken aback by the freedom of speech allowed in the U.K.
He explains, "I was in London recently and I couldn't believe all these hate-talking fanatics you have over here who are allowed to carry on doing their thing even when a bus full of women and children gets blown to pieces.
"I know you've deported one or two of them, but it seems crazy. I think there is worse to come, something terrible will happen to either America or the U.K., or France even. I don't think these fundamentalists should be allowed to talk all this crap, and brainwashing these young kids."
FWIW, my opinion of Mickey Rourke just went up several notches.
While the article could be summed up as “Rourke sympathises with U.S. President Bush,” the headline twists it into something that seems anit-Bush:
“Bush Was In Wrong Place At The Wrong Time”
Taken out of context, it sounds like Rourke is saying he was the wrong man for the job. That of course is exactly opposite what Rourke was saying. Stupid headline.
Funny, these hide bound adherents of Darwin can't recognize the basic human instinct for survival when they see it.
He is honest enough to admit that he is not educated politically (unlike Afleck, Penn, Robinson, Sarandon, Pitt, Damon, Garofolo, and the rest, I don’t really care how their names are spelled), yet in his simple statements he has shown ten times the native intelligence and common sense that must be the foundation of any worthwhile education.
Actually, he and Penn are friends. He just doesn’t think Penn was great in Milk and someone leaked it from a private conversation.
And CRUSADES were launched by CHRISTIANS and were totally appropriate
I agree. And let's not forget how, in addition to 9/11, Bush was also handed a decimated military. Not only did he have to respond to 9/11, he had to rebuild and restock large parts of the military, whose budget Slick Willy robbed from to help create the illusion of ‘peace and prosperity,’ and this in the middle of the tech-bubble implosion and its recession.
His (true) tax cuts went a long way toward staving off the recession and giving him the means to rebuild the military.
He did a good job on these two fronts. Too bad about the socialist spending domestically, though. His line, “We're abandoning free-market principles to save the free market” will probably go down in history in comparison to Nixon's, “We're all Keynesians now.”
You know, if Bush had stepped down in 2004, I think he would eventually have rated in the top 10 of all time. But now he’ll be lucky to crack the top 25, and only then if the WoT proves as successful long-term as it seems now.
Back in the 40s and 50s, my Aunt Opal lived in Southern California. She was single, divorced, and quite the party girl, I’ve been told. Anyway, one night, she was out with a girlfriend in a “honkytonk”in San Fernando Valley. My Aunt was a big 250 pound woman and she was beautiful. She wore pretty dresses with her hair fixed and bright red lipstick. She was usually dressed to the nines and always laughing and having fun. Yep, she was a bit of a bad girl. Her friends teased her and called her Kate Smith because of her size. So, Aunt Opal walked over to the jukebox and played Kate Smith’s big number one wartime song, God Bless America. She noticed a few people leaving during the song but didn’t think anything of it. She said that when the song was over, the bartender sent her and her friend over drinks and told her that he admired a woman with guts enough to play that song in a club full of communists. She said that she looked up and a whole table full of men were leaving and giving her real bad looks. My Aunt wouldn’t back down from a confrontation, especially not with a commie, and she got a big laugh out of it.
Hollywood was always infested with worthless, smelly, commies and sadly, they have taken over our country, now.
I really admire Rourke’s courage for telling the truth. Can you imagine how bad Oscar night is going to be for him? Talk about saying God Bless America in a theater filled with commies. I hope he wears an American flag pin or a Palin for President button or a Kill a Commie For Jesus button, or something to really offend those a***oles on Oscar night. They are going to make fun of him unmercifully for his remarks and they won’t give him the Oscar. I hope his little dog poops on the red carpet and Sean Penn slips in it.
Possibly, but then he made the mistake of giving this interview.
Its called search as they ask you too do prior to posting so that double, triple post can be avoided. That is all I was saying.
I disagree with you on 2 accounts...I don't think they were appropriate AND they were launched in RESPONSE to Islamic invasions.
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