Avril Lavigne speaks out against war

canoe.ca ^ | April 9, 2003 | SB00

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ANGELA PACIENZA -- Canadian Press OTTAWA -- You'd expect it from the likes of Paul McCartney, Moby and most recently, The Dixie Chicks.

But Avril Lavigne? Turns out the punk princess has her own opinions on the war in Iraq -- and strong ones to boot.

Slouched on a couch in a private room backstage after winning her fourth Juno Award on Sunday night, the 18-year-old high school dropout turned international popstar, munched on greasy pizza, using her fingers to pick off the pepperoni, looking like she'd rather be celebrating her success with buddies than a reporter.

So when she stopped chomping on the slice and started chatting about the ongoing battles in Iraq, it came as a surprise. Only minutes before, the notoriously bratty young singer had barely offered five consecutive words to journalists at a press conference.

"I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for (U.S. President George) Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war -- a lot of people aren't about war," she said forcefully.

When pressed about how apprised she really is about the situation in Baghdad, she candidly admitted to not following the news on a daily basis but said she knows the "obvious things."

"I know there's issues in Iraq. I'm not really a political person. It's hard for me to talk about the war. I don't really know what to say but I can say that I'm really proud that our Prime Minister didn't...fight, backed out from it."

That's why, the young singer said, she took the time to record a cover of the Bob Dylan classic peace song Knocking On Heaven's Door for a CD project, called Peace Songs, with contributions going to children in Iraq through War Child Canada.

"I was honoured to be able to be on that CD, do whatever I could with what I do to help out children who'd been affected by the war. It's a horrible thing," she said fervently.

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[BigWaveBetty]

Too late Arvil, it's over.

[goldstategop]

Yup. A Canadian Natalie Maines. <Yawn

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[hobblemaster]

18-year-old high school dropout turned international popstar

Maybe she should go back to school and an education and then, wait a minute, she HAS learned what the teachers want her to know already. She is smarted than us after all.

[goldstategop]

Naw. She parroted Sheryl Crow. After all the great Ms. Crow is never wrong, y'know.

[conservativemusician]

A pontificating high school dropout.....Now THAT'S news!

[Howlin]

LOL.....she's a little late to the party, eh?

[RogueIsland]

, the 18-year-old high school dropout turned international popstar, munched on greasy pizza, using her fingers to pick off the pepperoni,

Does any more really need to be said? When I want the opinion of an uncultured high-school drop out, I'll go to the local Burger King.

[KneelBeforeZod]

the "punk princess" who didn't even know who the Sex Pistols were. idiot.

[NittanyLion]

When pressed about how apprised she really is about the situation in Baghdad, she candidly admitted to not following the news on a daily basis but said she knows the "obvious things". "I know there's issues in Iraq. I'm not really a political person. It's hard for me to talk about the war. I don't really know what to say but I can say that I'm really proud that our Prime Minister didn't...fight, backed out from it."

LOL. I'll stick with the experts, thanks very much. Or at least someone who follows the news on a daily basis...

[tdscpa]

"I don't really know anything about it, but I think it is important for everyone to know how I feel".

[Conspiracy Guy]

Dang! She has a compelling argument. This changes everything. She knows there are issues in Iraq. I better call GWB and see if we can't undo everything. I knew in the back of my mind we were overlooking something. ISSUES! How did we forget that. Crap. I am sooo upset now. Sheee!

[Conspiracy Guy]

Dang! She has a compelling argument. This changes everything. She knows there are issues in Iraq. I better call GWB and see if we can't undo everything. I knew in the back of my mind we were overlooking something. ISSUES! How did we forget that. Crap. I am sooo upset now. Sheee!

[BigWaveBetty]

Read it and weep Avril. ... oh wait, can she read?

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's rule collapsed on Wednesday as jubilant Iraqis welcomed advancing U.S. forces in Baghdad and rampaging looters attacked symbols of his power.

Amid wild scenes, people gutted official buildings, dragging off anything they could carry from airconditioners to flowers.

"People, if you only knew what this man did to Iraq," yelled an old man standing in the road, thrashing at a torn portrait of Saddam with his shoe. "He killed our youth, he killed millions."

Joyful crowds threw flowers and cheered as U.S. Marines drove into the city from the sprawling eastern suburb of Saddam City, home to about two million impoverished Shi'ite Muslims.

"I believe we are on the last leg," Marine Colonel John Toolan told Reuters correspondent Sean Maguire, with the U.S. forces on their triumphal ride through the suburbs to the Martyr's Monument, just three miles from the center.

"No more Saddam Hussein," chanted one group, waving to troops as they passed. "We love you, we love you."

Some Shi'ites, part of a majority community largely hostile to Saddam's Sunni-led Baathist government, beat their chests as they do during the Shi'ite religious festival of Ashoura.

Reuters Television crews watched cheering crowds sack U.N. headquarters in the Canal Hotel and drive off in U.N. cars. The building had housed U.N. aid workers as well as arms inspectors, who were withdrawn before the war began on March 20.

Invasion forces have yet to find any banned chemical or biological arms. Saddam's government denied possessing them. U.S. troops stood by as looters raided sports shops around the bombed headquarters of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, headed by Saddam's elder son Uday, who also leads the Fedayeen militia.

Elsewhere, an Iraqi waving a rifle yelled: "We are Americans, we are USA." Another screamed: "Thank you Mr. Bush." More

[Arkie2]

I am just so darned pleased to find out what a high school dropout thinks about our policy! I've been wanting to go down to the unemployment lines and ask that very question but now I don't have to bother. Thanks for this insight. NOT!

[ricpic]

"I know there's issues in Iraq."

Yeah, like the likes of you not having a chance to be more than a combination baby machine kitchen slave.

[Arkie2]

LOL! So upset you posted it twice!

[Beck_isright]

"I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong."

War has only cured facism, communism, Nazism and genocide. Other than that, I agree, it's really not a cool thing.</sarcasm off
What a moron. Why do Canadian leftists think it's their duty to be like our Hollywood idiots by opening their mouth?

V

[trebb]

Proud to say I never heard of her...

[NittanyLion]

In fairness to this girl, this kind of opinion is representative of an 18-year old who doesn't know any better. Especially one who's likely been coddled and told she's always right by her managers and handlers.

Much of the fault here should be with the idiot reporters who deem her uninformed (by her own admission) views on Iraq newsworthy.

[TxBec]

Slouched on a couch in a private room backstage after winning her fourth Juno Award on Sunday night, the 18-year-old high school dropout turned international popstar, munched on greasy pizza, using her fingers to pick off the pepperoni, looking like she'd rather be celebrating her success with buddies than a reporter. .

..."They can think what they want to think cuz they think all kinds of things," she said, rolling her eyes. "I'm here and I'm independent, doing what I wanna do, the things I gotta do."

Fine, go back to your pizza, and we'll keep doing what WE have to do.

[MarkL]

Wow... My whole outlook on life has changed. I've now decided that the war is wrong... Any war is wrong... I'm not about war either, Avril.

Who knew a teenaged, highschool dropout could be so compelling and wise?

Hey, Avril! Pick up a history book, and hand it to an adult so that he or she can read it to you! War DOES solve problems! On the other hand, pacifism causes the deaths of millions! Look at Rowanda and Cambodia (these are countries, Avril); The list goes on and on...

Mark

[TxBec]

.. what I *REALLY* want to know now..is....How does NSync feel about this war? or the Backstreet Boys?... :: waiting :: Their opinions really will affect how I feel about this war... really. : )

[MarkL]

Proud to say I never heard of her...

Well, she does have good hair.

Mark

[Conspiracy Guy]

Twitchy index finger = double post.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Twitchy index finger = double post.

[2timothy3.16]

As the list grows, april joins the club

[TxBec]

"I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for (U.S. President George) Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war -- a lot of people aren't about war," she said forcefully.

When pressed about how apprised she really is about the situation in Baghdad, she candidly admitted to not following the news on a daily basis but said she knows the "obvious things." "I know there's issues in Iraq. I'm not really a political person. It's hard for me to talk about the war. I don't really know what to say but I can say that I'm really proud that our Prime Minister didn't...fight, backed out from it."

A. If she's not political, doesn't even follow the news, doesn't know more than the "obvious" things, and finds it hard to talk about war (sounds like she has no problem to me)..... she *REALLY* needs to go back to her pizza.

B. If she hadn't dropped out of school, she'd have known better than to say.."I know there's issues in Iraq.."

[Arkie2]

I notice the acronym for your tag line is CRAF. Are you "participating"?

[SB00]

Actually I agree with NittanyLion - at least Avril sort of admitted she wasn't all that informed on what was going on. And she's just a kid.

But I can't say I was surprised to hear another "entertainer" join the ranks of the lefties on this one.

[MJM59]

Is anybody else tired of all these little snarling, fake angst pop stars? I'd like to slap the face off of her skull.

[Conspiracy Guy]

My tag line is CRAP. CRAF? I was USAF 72-76.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Just one more cute idiot.

[Arkie2]

Oops! Sorry, not enough coffee yet.

[7thson]

Someone should tell her that you can order pizza without pepperoni.

[Lanza]

Actually, I have to argue with you on the hair thing. I was under the impression she had thick hair, then I saw her on the grammys. She has about three hairs waxed together to look real straight. She was on the red carpet with Joan, and that hair is just a stringy bunch of crap. Joan said she couldn't wait for her to turn 21 so she could bitch slap her (she was so incredibly bratty and rude on the red carpet).

[RogueIsland]

"I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for (U.S. President George) Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war -- a lot of people aren't about war," she said forcefully.

"So, you know, like I was talking to Brandy the other night, and like were saying how war sucks and all, and so she says like, 'George Bush sucks,' and I say like, 'yeah', and she goes, 'like war never solved anything,' and I'm like 'you go girl', and then she's all about like, 'if everyone would just get along, there wouldn't be any problems in the world' and I'm like, "totally, I mean you never heard of anyone picking on those monk guys in like, Tibet, right?' and so she says..."

[Conspiracy Guy]

That OK. It should have been easy to read cause I type real slow.

[YourAdHere]

Maybe she should go back to school and an education and then, wait a minute, she HAS learned what the teachers want her to know already. She is smarted than us after all.

I love these uneducated college and high school dropouts (Sheen, Roberts, Baldwin) who go around calling Bush, a Yale graduate, a moron. This chickie then says that she doesn't even really know much about the war, just that Bush is bad. If you're not up on the subject, don't an offer an opinion.

[Arkie2]

Apparently I read slower than you type! ;^)

[Eaker]

Proud to say I never heard of her...

Neither have I. More good news!!

[Dr.Deth]

"I know there's issues in Iraq. I'm not really a political person. It's hard for me to talk about the war. I don't really know what to say but I can say that I'm really proud that our Prime Minister didn't...fight, backed out from it."

Translation from self-importantese to English:

"I don't know jack about anything going on in the world, but all my cool celebrity friends are anti-war so I guess I'd better try to fit in."

This, from a country who gives us our only major sport where you're not ejected for fighting. Sad.

[TxBec]

Dude! going point! ;)

[Conspiracy Guy]

Maybe I should type, save, then post. This would allow proper aging. I guess you see now why my tag is my tag. It suits me. I hate being at work no Baghdad Bob live.

[monafelice]

She's known for not fitting into the 'popstar' mold- I would guess that she might come out in support of our troops and our C in C. Just another cute, talented, idiot!

[TxBec]

oops. that was SUPPOSED to be.. "good point" :: going for more coffee

[Hacksaw]

Joan said she couldn't wait for her to turn 21 so she could bitch slap her (she was so incredibly bratty and rude on the red carpet).

Reminds me of a Fiona Apple type. Who has heard from her lately?

[TxBec]

see #47 (sigh)

[PBRSTREETGANG]

For someone who sounds like she's named after a painkiller, she sure is a pain in the a$$.