Celebrities Send Bush Letter to Stop War Talk

Austin American-Statesman via Drudge | 12-9-02

[Reo]

Celebrities to Send Bush Anti-War Letter

LOS ANGELES (AP)--Mike Farrell and Anjelica Huston will release a letter Tuesday signed by a hundred celebrities who want President Bush to stop his war rhetoric toward Iraq.

The letter reportedly is signed by stars including Kim Basinger, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Lange and Martin Sheen, publicists for the event said Monday.

Details of the letter weren't released.

Bush has threatened military force against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, saying the dictator has amassed weapons of mass destruction that pose a danger to the United States.

United Nations weapons inspectors are searching the Middle Eastern country for such devices but have turned up little so far.

Farrell, who plays a veterinarian on the NBC drama ``Providence,'' previously compiled a celebrity-endorsed letter in June asking U.S. senators to vote against a plan to bury the nation's nuclear power waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

Co-signers of that letter included Alec Baldwin and Tim Robbins, Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand and Harry Belafonte.

On July 9, senators voted 60-39 in favor of the Yucca Mountain project.

AP-NY-12-09-02 1601EST

[Reo]

Oh please let them all promise to leave again! (They certainly weren't very successful with Yucca Mountain.)

[Morrigan]

Oh, God, you have got to be kidding me! These people live their entire lives in a comfortable little fairyland. How the hell do they know what is best for this country?

[battlegearboat]

I want to check that list and check it twice.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

We should start a letter to encourage Bush to continue with the war plans. We could pass it from area to area and get a thousand signatures.

[habs4ever]

Yup, that should make all the difference.I'm curious, but have any in this list had a nervous breakdown recently? There has to be at least one.Basinger is always too close to the edge, even in the best of circumstances.Farrell still loves Ortega, no doubt too .

[LibWhacker]

How in the world did traitors manage to corner the market on the best paying jobs in the world?

[xp38]

I wonder how many of these 100 actually voted for President Bush. Even 1 would surprise me.

[Dog Gone]

Laurence Fishburne, Ethan Hawke

Uh-oh, celebrities I've never heard of. I have a hunch that there are at least 80 more on the list I've never heard of.

[blam]

"How the hell do they know what is best for this country?"

It amazes me that so many 'international experts' chose to go into acting.

[KriegerGeist]

Perhaps they are trying to assure that Al Qaeda doesn't attack Hollyweird. "Please Saddam and Al Qaeda, we come in peace, so please don't hurt us, we're on your side...see?"

[krb]

Actually, Laurence Fishburne is pretty cool...he was Morpheus in The Matrix.

[goodieD]

and? their opinion means.....??????

[DWPittelli]

Maybe 100 noncelebrities should sign a letter to the celebrities, demanding that they stop their anti-war talk (aka appeasement). It would, of course, be a pointless gesture. But that would be the point exactly: Ironically, the letter's pointlessness would be apparent even to the celebrity idiots who think their own letter has moral, legal or practical significance (i.e., a point).

[Fighter@heart]

The letter thing was "nice" gesture, however I'm sure Bush DOES HAVE ample supply of toilet paper!!!

[satchmodog9]

How about we seal these aholes up in Yucca with the rest of the nuclear waste.

[goodnesswins]

And THEY are qualified to give ADVICE....because....they PRETEND to be OTHER people??????? BAAAA WAAAAAHHHHHH Someone needs to remind these people they are last on the LIST of advisors for President Bush, THANK GOD. Hey...that means WE come before THEY DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Money can't buy you EVERYTHING.

We should do a list of TOP Ten people President Bush would/should take advice from, and BOTTOM Ten people he SHOULD NOT take advice from....here's a start on the BOTTOM TEN who should NEVER give advice....

10. Babs
9. Alec Baldwin
8. Tim Robbins
7. Rob Reiner
6. Barbra Streisand
5. Harry Belafonte.
4. Susan Sarandon
3. Martin Sheen
2. Uma Thurman
1. Lawrence Fishburne
0.
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[LayoutGuru2]

I can't decide which movies NOT too see these days.

The list of Hollywood whackos is just too large.

Somebody help me out with a list of Hollywood types that aren't whackos or a list of movies starring only sane people.

[Paulie]

"Actually, Laurence Fishburne is pretty cool...he was Morpheus in The Matrix."

Never knew his name, but I agree-he is pretty cool. All the more reason I'm disappointed.

[irish_lad]

Thanks for the post. I just a few more names to the list of shows and movies I won't watch with these morons "starring" in them.

I attended a Christmas party last Saturday and as MC, I forced the sound guy to turnoff Barbara Streisand.

[Reo]

"Somebody help me out with a list of Hollywood types that aren't whackos or a list of movies starring only sane people."

1.Mel Gibson

2.James Woods

3.Ronald Reagan and John Wayne re-runs.

Sheesh..., that's a short list!