Hoffman blasts Bush's war plans (Hollyweird Alert!!!!)

AnnaNova.com ^ | 06 Feb. 2003 | Staff Writer

[txradioguy]

Hoffman blasts Bush's war plans

Dustin Hoffman has become the latest US star to voice his opposition to war with Iraq.

Dustin Hoffman arrives for the Empire Film Awards /PA

Hoffman accused the Bush administration of "manipulating the grief of the country" after the events of September 11.

The president's real motives for going to war are power and oil, he said.

He spoke out after receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Empire Film Awards in London.

"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible," he said.

"I don't think, like many of us, that the reasons we have been given for going to war are the honest reasons.

"If they are saying it's about the fact they have biological weapons and might have nuclear weapons and that gives us the liberty to pre-empt and strike because we think they might hit us, then what prevents Pakistan from attacking India, what prevents India from attacking Pakistan, what prevents us from going into North Korea?

"I believe - though I may wrong because I am no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil".

Hoffman pointed out that the US had once funded Saddam Hussein's regime even as he killed tens of thousands of Kurds. He added that he believed all politicians were incapable of telling the truth.

"If I was asked what is the most important aspect of being a politician, I would say getting re-elected. And when that's the goal, then all bets are off with the truth".

[txradioguy]

Blah blah blah blah.....that's it you demonic smurf, keep reading from the script. Here, would you like another glass of Kool-aid?

[linn37]

oh et tu tootsie??

[Ms. Annie Oakley]

These Hollywood types just love the sound of their own voices! That's funny, 'cuz it's like nails on a blackboard to me. :)

[Puppage]

Ya know, not too long ago(when Jessica Lange mouthed off in Spain) Hoffman said "why would ANYONE listen to us? We're ACTORS...we LIE for a living". Well, I guess THAT didn't last too long.

[SittinYonder]

"though I may wrong because I am no expert"

Then keep your mouth shut, Dustin Hoffman. They spew these anti-Bush, anti-American views without any regard for whether they know what they are talking about.

[kinghorse]

I think he has enough money to survive a weakened depressed USA. Us other guys wouldn't be so lucky. Fark him.

[txradioguy]

I'd like to pin him in a dentists chair and re-enact the dentist scene from "Marathon Man", only for real this time.

[demlosers]

[Puppage]

LOL!! Is it safe?

[txradioguy]

"Hi I'm Dustin Hoffman, I'n not a real foreign policy expert, but I've pplayed one on TV......." These people don't understand that just because you play a role on TV or the big screen it doesn't automatically mean you know anything about that topic. If that were the case James Mason would have been a submarine expert from playing Capt. Nemo!

[PISANO]

Another simpleton Hollywood 'star' who doesn't understand that attacking IRAQ is a RESUMPTION of hostilities (for them NOT abiding by their UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER), not a preemptive strike! Add another Hollywood type whose movies will be boycotted by me. The list is GROWING.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Weren't Hoffman and Renee Russo in a movie about an ebola type outbreak in the US? You think the brilliant Hollywood script would have taught him the danger of biological weapons!

[uvular]

The Weekly Standard's David Skinner has a Stardumb rating system for these Hollywood idiots, featuring the "Barbrometer". Using his rating system, I give Hoffman a 4 out of a possible 5 on the Barbrometer. Would have given him a 5, but he did actually admit he may be wrong....

[LoneGOPinCT]

Dustin Hoffman, Intellectual Extraordinaire.

He probably doesn't even know where Iraq is.

[ZULU]

"For me as an American,...."

This typical piece of Hollyweird scum is no more an American than a rattlesnake - he just happened to be born here. Like most Hollyweird Bolsheviks, his mind is either in the sewer which spawned him, or twisted with hatred for the nation which made him wealthy.

[Far Right Of Left]

The way these so-called celebrities keep shooting off their uneducated mouths,I'll never pay to see another movie.BTW Dusty, K-Mart doesn't suck,you & your liberal friends do!

[maxamillion]

Didn't this moron star in Wag the Dog... Probably makes him alittle more experianced than others... Would like to get his take on Xlintons bombing runs...

[2rightsleftcoast]

Wow, another Expert on foreign policy speaks up.
Add him to the dumb and dumber boycott list.

[maxamillion]

Yeah! he also stared in All the Presidents men... Hes probably still looking for deep throat...

[txradioguy]

You know though, the Hollyweird Liberal Lemmings aren't the only ones who are spewing this crap. Being a recovering DJ I'm on a radio posting board and most of the DJ that post on that board are just as bad as Susan Sarandon, Little Dusty Hoffman et. al. It's sick. They refer to the Prsident as the "Boy Emperor" and worse. Half of them I think are closet DUmmies. And most of them that are RATS on that board call me...ME a Chicken-Hawk and a neo-Con! It makes me embarassed to admit that I'm in the business.