Tom Cruise says grew up wanting to kill Hitler

reuters ^ | January 18, 2009 | Angela Moon Angela Moon

[Free ThinkerNY]

SEOUL (Reuters) – Tom Cruise, who fails to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his new movie "Valkyrie," said he grew up really wanting to kill the Nazi leader.

In the World War Two thriller based on a true story of the unsuccessful attempt by German soldiers to kill Hitler, Cruise plays Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg who plants a briefcase bomb under a table at Hitler's military headquarters.

A heavy wooden table saves Hitler and Stauffenberg is executed with his co-conspirators.

"I always wanted to kill Hitler, I hated him," the Hollywood star of such major blockbusters as "Top Gun" and "Mission Impossible," told the press during a visit to Seoul to promote his latest film.

[yazoo]

“I always wanted to kill Hitler, I hated him,”

He probably thanks the gods of scientology every night that he was born too late to have to join the army and prove his hatred.

[Impy]

Newsflash, he died before you were born! Idiot.

[Impy]

Crap everybodyy already posted that. It bares repeating!

[CholeraJoe]

“Mighty bold talk for a high school dropout.” Juliet Huddy.

[Cvengr]

FWIW, I happened upon an article which I posted here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2166800/posts?page=5

Subject article is somewhat lunatic fringe, but there are some interesting linkages between Scientology, and the hollow earth theories. I tend to favor the impression they both have more occultic, esoteric involvement in fallen angels / deceiving spirits, but there does appear to be some who think along those lines.

He might be telegraphing his past thinking more than intended.

[Cvengr]

That’s OK.

I forecast that somewhere between 20 and 100 posts repeating the obvious fact of Hitler’s death, one notion will arise insisting that because everybody thinks he is dead, he must be alive. ;^)

[Impy]

Looks like it’s a bit shy of 20 as of now. ;-)

[Callahan]

Not one to defend Tom Cruise, but I think what he's getting at is that as a kid he fantasized about being a war hero. Since a child's understanding of WWII is basically "Allies Good, Hitler and Nazis super evil" I can believe that he imagined killing Hitler and changing the course of history. I used to imagine what it would be like to go back in time and prevent the Kennedy assassination.

That said, Tom is a nut.

[Sgt_Schultze]

He's already dead, Tom!