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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Your post is priceless! My kind of woman!
Your “clear” language has certainly eliminated any chance of confusion as to your meaning. Congrats.
Best post I've seen today!
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. :)
I guess his publicist gave him an ass-whipping.
For sure - Herpes can kill.
I stand corrected - thank you for the information. Bennett’s still a POS though.
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).
The comments @ ABC are largely supportive of Bennett’s original position and very anti-USA. Sad.
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.
Would he have been a pacifist had it been a dead Jew at Buchenwald, instead?
And what did you become when you saw nearly three thousand die at the WTC?
CoJ? I don't know you, but I really, really like you.
My goodness, could you stop sugar coating this subject and just tell him about himself?
Hee hee...
You got it right. We need to start calling him that, which is what he was.
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.
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.
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