Posted on 12/01/2009 2:21:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge
TOKYO (AFP) – Filmmaker Michael Moore urged President Barack Obama on Monday not to expand the war in Afghanistan, as Washington prepares to announce a surge of US troops in the conflict-torn nation.
Moore, visiting Japan this week to promote his latest documentary "Capitalism: A Love Story," told reporters that he had sent Obama a message from his father, a World War II veteran.
"I passed on to him a personal request from my father and his Japanese friend: 'Mr. Obama, you do not know war. We both know war and want it no more'," he told reporters.
The activist director, whose latest movie targets corporate greed, held his first press conference in Japan at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where he passionately discussed freedom and protection for the socially weak, and dished out harsh criticism against former US president George W. Bush.
Moore repeatedly praised the traditional values of Japan, but he criticised Tokyo for supporting Bush's policies, including by sending non-combat troops to Iraq and adopting pro-market economic policies.
Asked to offer a message to the Japanese public, Moore urged them to return to a "society of peace and respect."
"As much as I like America, quit being like us. Be Japan," he said.
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Michael Moore. . . .ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh, Obama must be shaking in his loafers.
Uh oh, watch out Obama! Do as Michael Moore says or he might make a film where he stands outside the white house and calls you the most wonderful, smartest, just plain dreamy sort of baby killer he’s ever known, and at least a dozen people will pay to see it in the theaters. Surrender now, or pay the consequences!
“Pull all troops out now, or else I’ll fart 10,000,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere”.
US film director Michael Moore speaks about his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" at the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Filmmaker Michael Moore has urged President Barack Obama not to expand the war in Afghanistan, as Washington prepares to announce a surge of US troops in the conflict-torn nation. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
That’s not a threat not to vote for Bobo ... that’s just lame finger-wagging. What a fat pussy.
Can we deport Michael Moore if enough of us sign a petition?
"I too, tried to bow deeply to the Emperor, and this is as far over as I got."
The funny thing, is that a committed ideologist like Obama doesn’t fear a moron like Michael Moore. After all, they are on the same side. And Obama realizes Moore is a moron, but they are on the same side.
Republican politicians, on the other hand, seem to fear and react to and accomodate the various Michael Moores of the world.
Return to a society of peace and respect?
Hunh?
“I passed on to him a personal request from my father and his Japanese friend: ‘Mr. Obama, you do not know war. We both know war and want it no more’,” he told reporters. “
How juvenile.
The libs are tearing themselves apart over this. It’s really a sight to see over at KOS. The Worshippers/True Believers versus the Anti-war propoganda swallowers battle is finally coming to a head.
I especially liked this KOS post:
“Escalate A War, Then Go Collect A “Peace Prize””
Can you say H Y P O C R I S Y ???
If he really means what he says, he’ll do a documentary attacking Obama’s foreign policy. Of course he won’t.
I hope 0bama says, “I was going to send over a bunch of troops but this fat boy in Japan now says I can’t do it.”
“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
~John Stuart Mill
He just likes the sound of those words even if they are completely irrelevant to the discussion.
"We have a Fake President"
You can't fix stupid.
I see the real capitalist pig is oink oinking again.
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