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.
But what I won’t ignore is this question: why do any of these Hollywood pantyliners think that their geopolitical ad libs are more important than keeping their mouths shut while my son and all the other soldiers are still in the process of ding their jobs? Are they trying to sell more tickets in the overseas markets, thus merely selling Americans out for box-office cash? Are they paid lobbyists for the UN or the DNC (or some Islamic outfit), and therefore merely on the clock? Do they just want the anti-American jackasses of the planet to like them on a personal level, so they’re out and about, drumming up new friends?
Really-- what is the purpose? It can’t be because they are trying to look intelligent, since Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Natalie Maines (or whomever) really sound more like they are badly rehearsing the latest Bonior/Byrd speech.
The war is not over—and these people are traitors.
Me too.
But I need some magic formula to help me give up Willie Nelson. I break out in a cold sweat whenever I try.
HELP!
HELP!
There were rumors last year that Harrison Ford was buying the rights to "Breakfast at Tiffany's" in order to remake it starring himself and Calista.
Hey, Harrison, if you're going to ruin an Audrey Hepburn movie, why not try remaking "Sabrina" first. Oh, wait, you already ruined that one.
I almost hope he tries to do a "Tiffany's" remake starring Miss "one facial expression" Flockhart, the result should prove quite humorous.
Man, he has the dem/lib/marxist/eco-nazi/ talking points down to the letter.
Calista's boyfriend is a big time pothead.
No mention of military service in his bio but there is this little tidbit...
Following high school graduation, Ford studied English and Philosophy at Ripon College in Wisconsin. An admittedly lousy student, he began acting while in college and then worked briefly in summer stock. He was expelled from the school three days before graduation because he did not complete his required thesis.
Why is it that most of these boneheads are college dropouts?
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