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Harrison Ford Blasts U.S. Iraq Policy
Islam Online ^

Posted on 08/27/2003 12:01:46 PM PDT by avalon

MADRID, August 27 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Joining a chorus of Hollywood top starts speaking out against the Bush administration’s war on Iraq, superstar Harrison Ford launched Wednesday, August 27, a broadside at U.S. policy on the Arab country.

At a safe distance from his homeland, veteran Hollywood actor Harrison Ford on Wednesday launched a broadside at US policy on Iraq, his country's gun laws -- and the film industry for producing "video games" for teenagers.

"I'm very disturbed about the direction American foreign policy is going," said Ford, at a safe distance from his homeland, after reports that the U.S. post-war fatalities having exceeded those during the actual three-week invasion of the oil-rich country.

"I think something needs to be done to help alleviate the conditions which have created a disenfranchised and angry faction in the Middle East.

"I don't think military intervention is the correct solution. I regret what we as a country have done so far," said Chicago-born veteran superstar, 62.

Ford is in Madrid to promote his latest release "Hollywood Homicide", a story of two moonlighting Los Angeles policemen.

He also slammed the American film industry for relying on hi-tech wizardry at the expense of thrilling plots.

"I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships," said Ford, while noting "12- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the U.S. movie business."

Although on screen Ford has starred in many action-packed, gun-toting thrillers, Ford abhors liberal U.S. gun laws.

"I'm very troubled by the proliferation of arms, at the fact so many people in the United States carry guns. It obviously contributes greatly to the crime problems we have. I'm sure gun laws should be strengthened in the United States. I just don't know the correct mechanism."

On Wednesday, February 5, double Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman accused the Bush administration of "manipulating the grief of the country" post-September 11 to win backing for a possible war with Iraq.

Hoffman, speaking as he picked up the life-time achievement prize at the Empire magazine film awards in central London said : "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."

U.S. movie star Martin Sheen on Saturday, January 11, led thousands of people in a rowdy protest march in Los Angeles against Bush's plans to wage war on Iraq.

"We are telling the world that we are patriotic Americans but we do not support going to war with Iraq."

On a growing list of Hollywood celebrities speaking out against war, actor George Clooney made a strong case against the Bush administration’s "war mongering", this time on a German screen.

"America's policies frustrate me,…I think a war against Iraq is as unavoidable as it senseless. I think it's coming. But I also think the real danger is going to be what happens after it," Clooney said Sunday, February 23.

Castigating him for publicly criticizing the Iraq war, the Baseball Hall of Fame has scrapped a screening of one of Tim Robbins movies.

In an open letter published on Washington Post, U.S. actor Sean Penn called wrote addressing Bush: " I beg you, help save America before yours is a legacy of shame and horror. Don't destroy our children's future."

Famed U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore used his Oscar win Sunday, March 23, to launch a diatribe on wartime Bush and invasion of Iraq.

"We are against this war Mr Bush. Shame on you. Shame on you!" Moore said addressing an audience of 3,500, including most of Hollywood's top stars.

Joining he army of anti-war advocates, George Michael recorded a new song protesting Britain's unwavering support for the U.S.-led war on Iraq.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; harrisonford; hollywoodidiot; hollywoodleftist; leftist
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To: avalon
Ford is in Madrid to promote his latest release "Hollywood Homicide", a story of two moonlighting Los Angeles policemen.

The worst movie he has ever made. Early senility brought on by excess sawdust and humping a skeleton?

21 posted on 08/27/2003 12:17:28 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Argus
Hollywood Homicide was THE MOST STUPID movie I've ever seen. The acting stunk, the plot was ridiculous and I was actually embarrassed for Ford. (of course that was before I heard he's against the war in Iraq - now I'm not embarrassed, just ticked I spent $7)
22 posted on 08/27/2003 12:19:40 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: avalon
Oh Harrison, Harrison, Harrison....

Go fix Calista a sandwich. The scrawny child needs some fattin' up.
23 posted on 08/27/2003 12:21:26 PM PDT by najida (What handbasket? And where did you say we were going?)
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To: avalon
"I'm very troubled by the proliferation of arms, at the fact so many people in the United States carry guns.

In the ARAB nations there is celebration in the streets with people shooting their guns in the air. Am I the only one that has read that many, many, many times.

24 posted on 08/27/2003 12:21:56 PM PDT by TonyWojo
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To: avalon
Sounds like he did his own stunts once too often.

So9

25 posted on 08/27/2003 12:23:25 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (Put some ice on that)
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To: Argus
"Indiana Jones in the rest home of doom"?
26 posted on 08/27/2003 12:23:47 PM PDT by stop_fascism
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To: MEG33
I wonder what his draft record shows. He was draftable for Viet Nam right? Like Klintoon he probrbaly dodged it.
27 posted on 08/27/2003 12:24:55 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon
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To: Peach
"the most inarticulate, mentally challenged actor ..."

I don't know if Harrison wins the looney prize or not...I watched Leno interview Kevin Costner the other night, and oh how embarrassing...the man is hard put to complete a sentence!

Dumb blonde jokes should be replaced with dumb Hollywood hunk jokes.!

28 posted on 08/27/2003 12:25:36 PM PDT by YaYa123
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To: avalon
I am forced to wonder why anyone cares what he thinks about it.
29 posted on 08/27/2003 12:25:45 PM PDT by squidly
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To: avalon
I just love it when people who pretend to be real people for a living give their expert opinions on real world events.

What an idiot!
30 posted on 08/27/2003 12:26:09 PM PDT by LittleJoe
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To: avalon
Huck fim.
31 posted on 08/27/2003 12:26:35 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (®)
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To: avalon
"I'm not a CIA analyst, but I played one in a movie...."
32 posted on 08/27/2003 12:29:50 PM PDT by dogbrain ("Life is hard son. It's harder if you're stupid.")
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To: avalon
"I think something needs to be done to help alleviate the conditions which have created a disenfranchised and angry faction in the Middle East."

And that's what we're doing for the people of Iraq - enfranchising them after decades of disenfranchisement by a brutal dictator. And in the Arab/Israeli conflict, we are trying to do the same - get the Arabs to accept the Palestinian state that they've been saying they want for 35 years and which Clinton/Barak offered them on a platter three years ago. Mr. Ford seems incapable of clear thinking, so he should keep his mouth shut. PS - I've always thought he was a mediocre actor undeserving of "star" status.
33 posted on 08/27/2003 12:32:02 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle (uo)
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To: avalon
In other news, Anna Nicole Smith expressed support for the use of sand-ballasted flocculation in wastewater treatment, pro golfer Jon Daly spoke on the future of fiber-optic technology in telecommunications and Energy secretary Spencer Abraham declared Izaak Mizrahi's new fall collection a "fashion disaster."
34 posted on 08/27/2003 12:32:03 PM PDT by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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To: avalon
And we should give a flying f#ck what yet another clueless liberal Hollywood hack has to say about U.S. foreign policy because ... ?
35 posted on 08/27/2003 12:33:38 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
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To: avalon
I was a little chagrined when Ben Affleck started playing Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's lates movie, The Sum Of All Fears. These Clancy movies are simply using the wrong cast, and have been for years.

Where are Tom Selleck and Bruce Willis when you really need them?

36 posted on 08/27/2003 12:34:14 PM PDT by Gritty
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To: YaYa123
Kevin Costner

Like Ford, he is way overrated as an actor. His portrayal of Jim Garrison in JFK was unconvincing. I'm a pipe smoker, and you could tell that Costner had never handled a pipe in his life before he did that role.
37 posted on 08/27/2003 12:34:21 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle (uo)
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To: avalon
At a safe distance from his homeland, veteran Hollywood actor Harrison Ford on Wednesday launched a broadside at US policy on Iraq, his country's gun laws.....

Another Hollyweird commie prtesting America from foreign soil during a war.

38 posted on 08/27/2003 12:36:20 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: avalon
I sincerely hope he's dead before he makes it back to American soil.
39 posted on 08/27/2003 12:38:08 PM PDT by Living Free in NH
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To: avalon
Come on down to Harrison Ford...were overstocked and are moving out the '03 models to make room for the '04's!
40 posted on 08/27/2003 12:38:50 PM PDT by Onelifetogive
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