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.
Remember that scene in "Raiders of the Lost Arc" where Indiana Jones is confronted with a martial arts-type guy with... swords (or was it another weapon), so he pulls out his gun and shoots him? That was a classic scene that said it all.
Looks like Ford has changed his mind since then.
Says the guy whose career was made by "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones". As if the political hypocrisy weren't bad enough...
Oh Gag,
Another Geezer romancin' his daughter.
As if watching Sean Connery romance Catherine Zeta-Jones was bad enough.
As long as the first line in the story is "American actor/activist Harrison Ford was the only person killed in a botched homocide attack in Jeruselum - even the attacker survived."
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