Posted on 09/28/2006 9:59:45 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Filmmaker Oliver Stone blasted President Bush Thursday, saying he has "set America back 10 years." Stone added that he is "ashamed for my country" over the war in Iraq and the U.S. policies in response to the attacks of Sept. 11.
"We have destroyed the world in the name of security," Stone told journalists at the San Sebastian International Film Festival prior to a screening of his latest movie, "World Trade Center." The film tells the true story of the survival and rescue of two policemen who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after they went to help people escape.
"From Sept. 12 on, the incident (the attacks) was politicized and it has polarized the entire world," said Stone. "It is a shame because it is a waste of energy to see that the entire world five years later is still convulsed in the grip of 9/11.
"It's a waste of energy away from things that do matter which is poverty, death, disease, the planet itself and fixing things in our own homes rather than fighting wars with others. Mr. Bush has set America back 10 years, maybe more."
The director of blockbusters such as "Platoon," and "JFK" said the U.S. reaction to the attacks was out of proportion.
"If there had been a better sense of preparation, if we had a leadership that was more mature," he said. "We did not fight back in the same way that the British fought the IRA or the Spanish government fought the Basques here. Terrorism is a manageable action. It can be lived with," said Stone.
Stone rejected allegations that U.S. authorities may have known about the attacks in advance and said the real conspiracy came after.
"I think that conspiracy-mongering on 9/11 is a waste of time," he said. "The far greater conspiracy occurred after 9/11 when basically a neo-cabal inside our government hijacked policy and went to war. That was as broad a conspiracy as we can get and it was about 20, 30 people. That's all, they took over and all these books are coming out and they are pointing it out," said Stone.
"This war on Iraq is a disaster. I'm disgraced. I'm ashamed for my country," he said. "I'm also ashamed that America has attacked itself with its constitutional breakdowns. I'm deeply ashamed."
In the United States' favor, Stone posited that it's not responsible for all the world's problems. "You can't see that the United States is responsible for all the evil in the world because you can see so many dictators and so many bestial acts all over the world now. .... There is something in the human heart, the international human heart, that is evil," said Stone.
"That's the evil that turns its mind and ears on humanity and is able to say `I can kill a person in the name of God or religion.' This is not a human being, this a fanatic. And I fear that fanaticism is the result of our overreaction to 9/11," said Stone.
Umm..this looks a lil twisted to me Mr. Stone. The fanaticism came first, not our reaction to 9/11. THEY are the ones killing in the name of religion, not US! You are just one more infidel they wouldn't mind taking out in the name of Allah and this country is trying to help you keep your head (that thing on top of your shoulders that they have a nasty habit of disconnecting at the neck).
So freaking leave you lunatic!
Buy it? I refuse even to THINK of it!
... DAMN!
It be shame for Ollie to see his hero finally kick the bucket LOL!
Now I watching Scarface on DVD now I realize he was stone when he wrote that script
All that Coke Al Pachino snorted anddd set up that Big a*** gun to be his Little friend LOL!
He was HIGH LOL!
The feeling's mutual...I'm ashamed of you, Ollie.
I am ashamed that America has people like Oliver Stone. At least the Bush administration did something to attempt to prevent future deaths of Americans. All Oliver Stone did was exploit their deaths for profit by making a movie about it. The movie will likely be anti-american and a slap in the face to the victims of 9/11 (based on Stone's feelings towards America). I for one will not be watching it.
And we're ashamed of you! Any questions?
1996...a year of blissful ignorance of what al Qaeda was up to. Yep, that's the ticket. Let's return to a day when we buried our heads in the sand and cheered on a president who was diddling with the interns. It was the Golden Age.
He is full of shame and sh-t...
"From Sept. 12 on, the incident (the attacks) was politicized and it has polarized the entire world," said Stone. "It is a shame because it is a waste of energy to see that the entire world five years later is still convulsed in the grip of 9/11.Ya, we should have adopted your "Afterschool Special" method of dealing with jihadists. Had we adopted your way, they'd be nut-less wonders like yourself and we wouldn't have a problem now.
Face it, Sammy, you have no clue how to deal with thugs. And we'd all deserve to be beheaded if we took your "feelings" approach.
Idiot!
Stone and the rest of the left wing socialists would be screaming from the rooftops that Bush sat on his hands, didn't do enough, had a chance to stop it but didn't, didn't heed all the warnings and all the red flags, and should be removed from office for not protecting the citizens, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah................on and on for ever and ever.
These people are like chihuahuas, cute sometimes, but usually a big pain in the rear.............
Stone wouldn't last a week trying to walk in Bush's shoes.............
P.S. May God bless our troops and troops from other countries that are helping fight the WOT
P.P.S. Death to the MSM
You have to be crazy to take these people seriously, they are a joke on humanity. Has he always had this ego problem to go with his ignorance of history and truth?
Maybe he could move to some country in the Middle East and spread his touchy, feely, do good stuff. I'm sure they will agree with him.
Some insights from Oliver Stone:
"Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else."
"The Cold War has been the most irritating thing to me personally. Throughout my life we've been in the grip of militarism and military budgets and a mindset that dictates a war on Communism, and that's a drain on the national energy. The real enemy is nationalism and patriotism."
"I thought it was a helluva thriller. JFK's murder marked the end of a dream, the end of a concept of idealism that I associate with my youth. Race war, Vietnam, Watergate. If JFK had lived, the combat situation in Vietnam would never have occurred."
"If I were George Bush, I would shoot myself. I think he lives in fear of drinking again. There's nothing more dangerous for America than an ex-alcoholic President who tells you to believe in Jesus."
"This attack was pure chaos, and chaos is energy. All great changes have come from people or events that were initially misunderstood, and seemed frightening, like madmen." - On the September 11th attacks
"I believed in the John Wayne image of America. My father was a Republican, and he taught me that it was a good war because the Communists were the bad guys and we had to fight them. And then there was the romanticism of the Second World War as it appeared in the films we mentioned. Obviously, the reality was very different."
Dear Ollie
Drop Dead please !
We don't need your ilk around here
Not just an America-hater but a phony.
I am too. We can't make a great movie any more.
9/11 has been called a disaster, a tragedy, an evil attack and I've heard several arguments against these terms (disaster is for a natural event, etc.).
Now I guess it only rates as an incident.
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