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Tony Bennett Changes His Tune on 9/11 Remarks
abcnews.com ^ | 9/21/11 | Brian Canova

Posted on 09/21/2011 8:16:44 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Tony Bennett recorded “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” in 1962, but with his recent comments about terrorism and the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, he left behind some controversy.

Appearing on “The Howard Stern Show” Monday to promote his new album, “Duets II,” the singer ended up discussing his military service during World War II and the impact it had on him.

“The first time I saw a dead German, that’s when I became a pacifist,” he said.

Sixty-five years after leaving his military life behind, Bennett has sold more than 50 million albums and developed some definite opinions about other wars involving the United States. “To start a war in Iraq was a tremendous, tremendous mistake internationally,” he said.

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One day later, the 85-year-old singer took to his latest stage, Facebook, and wrote, ” There is simply no excuse for terrorism and the murder of the nearly 3,000 innocent victims of the 9/11 attacks on our country.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benito; groundzero; mafia; mussolini; nazi; terrorism; terrorist; tonybennett
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Your post is priceless! My kind of woman!


41 posted on 09/21/2011 8:52:52 AM PDT by Babalu ("Tracer rounds work both ways ...")
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Your “clear” language has certainly eliminated any chance of confusion as to your meaning. Congrats.


42 posted on 09/21/2011 8:56:22 AM PDT by RavenATB ("Destroy the family and you destroy the country!" ~Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
Wow CoJ, you've got spunk! I admire that...

Best post I've seen today!

43 posted on 09/21/2011 8:59:54 AM PDT by Son of Redleg
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To: cripplecreek
Yes, but far too many fired vaguely in the direction of the enemy rather than lining up their sights on a human being and dispatching them.

Almost nobody is mentally prepared for war - especially the low down dirty chemical and trench warfare of WWI.

But I find that the minimum one should be able to expect of your troops is that they actually fire AT the enemy - not just vaguely in the direction of the enemy.

Luckily I think that isn't much of a problem for our troops anymore. We raise young people with trained hand eye coordination, a good grasp of tactics and strategic thinking, and who have an ingrained habit of lining up a human shaped target and firing on target.

I remember a story of a Soviet General during the Cold War given a tour of a US shopping mall. Upon hearing electronic beeps and such he asked about what was going on. “Just kid stuff, you wouldn't be interested” he was told. Well being a suspicious Soviet - he honed in on that an INSISTED he be shown. He saw a Video Game Arcade! His immediate conclusion was that “Americans are training their young in computer assisted warfare!” - but then he heard the sound of a quarter falling into the machine and realized it wasn't a conspiracy to raise a generation of warriors - it was a conspiracy to separate suburban kids form their quarters!!!!

He defected. :)

44 posted on 09/21/2011 9:00:13 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I guess his publicist gave him an ass-whipping.


45 posted on 09/21/2011 9:04:38 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

For sure - Herpes can kill.


46 posted on 09/21/2011 9:05:48 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Why?)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I stand corrected - thank you for the information. Bennett’s still a POS though.


47 posted on 09/21/2011 9:08:37 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Why?)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
Okay, but seriously, how do you really feel?
48 posted on 09/21/2011 9:15:19 AM PDT by Obadiah (Okay, so what's the speed of dark?)
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To: laweeks
Boy, did I love their music, seriously. Great vocals and great accompaniments. But as soon as that lead singer moron opened her pathetic chubby mouth, everything changed for me.

YEP! At the time, I was working with a Kuwaiti-born, Palestinian friend who asked, "Doesn't she have the right to free speech?" To wit, I replied, "Yes, just like I have the right to never buy another album." And I never have; I even discarded the one that I already owned. I was SO glad that they stopped getting air-play as well! They deserve all the ridicule which they brought upon themselves!

When companies post their political preferences, they can expect public outcry against them; and there is NOTHING wrong with that! But, for some reason, these entertainment maroons simply think they are exempt from ridicule and spite! Either they believe their own press-notices, they believe the MSM-touted "public love," or they think they are above reproach! I am glad that the American people are finally showing these idiots that they are NOT untouchable!
49 posted on 09/21/2011 9:21:09 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Went 60 years into his career without doing something as stupid as to have an opinion.

He’s one of my very favorites. Now I know him as a pacifist, which is to say a coward who lives at the expense of those brave enough to defend him when he won’t defend himself (or his family).


50 posted on 09/21/2011 9:23:40 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

The comments @ ABC are largely supportive of Bennett’s original position and very anti-USA. Sad.


51 posted on 09/21/2011 9:28:11 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: allmendream

I don’t think it is all Germans who “are at your throat or at your FEET” but all of those types of people who want your stuff without expending effort in useful work.


52 posted on 09/21/2011 9:48:43 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
“The first time I saw a dead German, that’s when I became a pacifist,” he said.

Would he have been a pacifist had it been a dead Jew at Buchenwald, instead?

53 posted on 09/21/2011 9:52:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
"The first time I saw a dead German, that’s when I became a pacifist"

And what did you become when you saw nearly three thousand die at the WTC?

54 posted on 09/21/2011 9:52:51 AM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
And, Tony, I forgot to call you a pussy in the previous post. See previous post and add the word pussy somewhere.

CoJ? I don't know you, but I really, really like you.

55 posted on 09/21/2011 11:14:18 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

My goodness, could you stop sugar coating this subject and just tell him about himself?

Hee hee...


56 posted on 09/21/2011 11:46:38 AM PDT by DE50AE
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To: God luvs America
wow- so what is he? a nazi sympathizer??

You got it right. We need to start calling him that, which is what he was.

57 posted on 09/21/2011 1:22:40 PM PDT by paudio (The 0bama Downgrade Part Two (a possible sequel to the current horror movie))
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
“The first time I saw a dead German, that’s when I became a pacifist,” he said.

Really? How about when the dumb a** saw what was left of the jews in the concentration camps? Or the 3,000 dead at Pearl Harbor? What an idiot. He didn't become a pacifist, he became a coward.

58 posted on 09/21/2011 1:37:24 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Your posts, most succinct and erudite, said exactly what I’ve been thinking.

Plus, it made me laugh and my daughter laughed and so, amazingly, did my husband.


59 posted on 09/22/2011 6:47:19 AM PDT by Jemian
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