Posted on 09/20/2011 4:14:05 AM PDT by iowamark
American icon Tony Bennett took to the airwaves at Sirius Radio to promote his new album, “Duets II,” but it’s what he said about war, peace, terrorism, and who was to blame for the Sept. 11 terror attacks that could get people talking.
Sitting down with Howard Stern on Monday, the 85-year-old singer dodged questions about his sex life and prior drug use. He did so with a laugh, but matters about the U.S. military and 9/11 were fair game, and on these topics the Grammy winner held little back...
“I’m anti-war,” he said. “It’s the lowest form of human behavior.”
Drafted by the U.S. Army in November 1944, Bennett served as an infantryman in Europe, moving across France, and later into Germany.
“The Germans were frightened. We were frightened. Nobody wanted to kill anybody when we were on the line, but the weapons were so strong that it overcame us and everybody else.”...
Bennett, 65 years after leaving his military life behind, has sold over 50 million albums and developed definite opinions about other wars involving the United States...
Stern then asked Bennett about how America should deal with terrorists, specifically those responsible for the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
“But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right,” Bennett said.
In a soft-spoken voice, the singer disagreed with Stern’s premise that 9/11 terrorists’ actions led to U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“They flew the plane in, but we caused it,” Bennett responded. “Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.”
Following seconds of silence, Stern said that his guest was “making some good points.”
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“You sir are an IDIOT...
So my father and tens of thousands of other soldiers who fought and many died to free Europe an liberate the Jews were practicing the lowest form of human behavior??”
Amen!!!!
Well put...
I have this vague recollection of reading about some research the Army War College (I think) had done with civilian volunteers. They were put in command positions in various strategic "war games". The professed pacifists were the first to go nuclear (literally) when their side in the game got in a bind.
Does he honestly believe that he is a foreign policy expert simply because he was in the military and fought in a war? I don’t think so.
They flew the planes into those buildings because they hated us. It’s as simple as that. They hate us for our support of Israel, and because we are a largely Judeo-Christian nation(for now). If he wants to point fingers in regards to all of the “bombing” that was going on, he can thank his idol Bill Clinton for that. I highly doubt that Bush confided in this douche that he was wrong about Iraq either.
Both Sinatra and Bennett were liberals as young men. Sinatra got over it in middle age. Bennett did not. Winston Churchill had a wise saying to the effect that a man who is not a liberal at age 20 has no heart but a man who is still a liberal at age 40 has no brain.
In 1980, Sinatra donated 4 million dollars to Reagan's presidential campaign.
He may have left his heart in San Francisco, but I think he lost his mind well before that. You don’t get much dumber than not knowing why we fought the Germans...
We are in too many wars and sticking our noses into too many bee hives while playing politically correct internationalists - rulers of the world. We can not afford to rebuild the countries we attack and pay off allies like this. It is breaking us like it did the Soviet Union.
We need to use Reagan’s strategy on Lybia more often when we have Muslim idiots who need to be taken down a notch. We need to keep the Muslims from coming to the US until there is a major reformation of their religion. We tolerate too much from Muslims and have emboldened them. We have nothing to prove to them. We have to revive the idea of foreigners and their ways and interests versus Americans and our ways and interests.
[I predict a happy and healthy and intellegent future for you. lol]
I paint too, (not houses) but I’m finding that post it notes are becoming increasingly useful. lol
He left his heart in San Fransisco.
He left his brain in the toilet.
I remember that. But I thought it was a phony cover for the fact that he can’t sing that song.
That was at Yankee Stadium during the 1998 World Series. Bennett sang “America the Beautiful” because he complained “The Star-Spangled Banner” is a war song.
Yep; just like the kids who are never spanked are the most horribly behaved, violent and aggressive children.
He left his brains in San Francisco. Too bad, because he is a brilliant singer. He can double bunk with Mat Damon in hell.
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