[Rocko]

First the Jews, now Bush and Iraq. Has Mel been channeling Pat Buchanan?

[Zeroisanumber]

I wonder how quickly those FReepers who urged forgiveness for Mel's anti-Semetic remarks will abandon him now that he's come out against the Iraq War.

[Phocion]

No surprises here. He's expressed this view before, though some chose to look the other way because they liked his last movie.

[LZ_Bayonet]

I was wondering how he was going to get back into the good graces of the Hollywood crowd. A good career move, but I thought he was made of better stuff.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[mingwah]

I posted on another Mel site and give Mel the benefit of being human, living in California and in the Hollywood venue but as to his human sacrifice reference, I have not heard him complain about abortion and if that isn't a human sacrifice then I don't know what is.
This is always the problem with speaking out loud; You have to be without conflicting logic.

[UncleDick]

This shouldn't be surprising to anybody. Traditionalist catholics are (generally) paleocons.

[adm5]

Did Mel hire Dixie Chick Fat Nat to be his new P.R. person?

[onyx]

Where's Hildy's thread?

We were nearing 100 posts and were engaged in conversations.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

When a star runs out of fuel, it becomes a Red Giant. It loses its core density, and starts to become an overheated and bloated ball of gas.

[woofie]

Hollywood encourages independent thinking as long as it is like everyone else

[F.J. Mitchell]

Go to hell, Mel, you are nothing more nor less than the rest of the liberal and greedy Hollywood opportunists.

You Suck!

[Senator Pardek]

"if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?"

For once, I agree with that drunk.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Mel and Danny Glover should do Lethal Weapon again where they go to Iraq and drink all day and night till they see the piss christ and then go camel riding with Bagdad Bob to Zarqwai's grave (to remove womans panties off the headstone) and then return for cocktails and fly to Syria for autographs with Clooney and then Spielberg and Sheehan in Palestine -- before getting really drunk again and seeing the piss christ follow them around and then getting real drunk again and locked up in Abu Graib for drunk driving and having to phone Mookie Sadr to bail them out. And then more drinking and driving around Bagdad with Mookies' car full of explosives...

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I'd say this is a sell out.

Mel wants good publicity and now has Time and Newsweek both wanting to run a cover on him.

Stating this opinion about the war guarantees even not noteworthy people tons of news coverage (eg Cindy Sheehan)

It probably is his real feelings though.

[DoughtyOne]

At the present time there is a big push by George Clooney and others for the world to help out Darfur. Check out this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701625/posts

What I find baffling, is that when the U.S. does enter a nation to help out, the left always turns on it if things go south.

When the U.S. was in Somalia, the left went bananas. Now we're in Iraq to help out. It went south and the left abandoned support of that, as if they ever did. If we went into Darfur, it wouldn't be six weeks until the left would call it a boy scout operation run by cowboy George Bush.

Here Gibson has joined in such a retribution. He's nuts to do so.

The Iraqi people needed to be freed from the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. That beast was responsible for millions of deaths.

Hussein attacked Iran which resulted in around 500,000 casualties on both sides. He gassed the Kurds in the northern part of Iraq. He invaded Kuwait and attacked Israel with a bombardment of scuds. Simultaneously, he attacked Saudi Arabia with scuds. Hussein was reportedly giving the families of suicide bombers in Israel, $25k. He bragged about it.

Are the Iraqi people dirt in Gibson's eyes? Are they in the eyes of the leftists in our nation? The war with Iraq has cost us nearly 3,000 men and women. That weighs heavily on my heart, but lets keep it in perspective. Hussein was responsible for the mass graves across his nation. His sons were torturing people at will. Shouldn't the humanitarian left, at least they claim to be, be concerned about this. Shouldn't they demand an end to it even as they do the problems in Darfur?

The left in this nation is suffering a total meltdown, a disconnect that has seldom been seen in the history of the planet. Here are people who profess to be intelligent, the most sensitive and creative people on the planet, and they can't add two and two.

Here Gibson goes over to the dark side. It's a shame, but we must call a spade a space. Mel, geez Louise, what the hell is wrong with you bud?

[Tzimisce]

It's Hollywood. What do you expect? Patriotism?

[Sprite518]

I am sure his movie will tank for sure now. No one will go see it. Oh well his lost. He made enough on the Passion that it will not matter. Oh well nice knowing you Mel. I will no longer attend your films.

[SoldierDad]

Hollywood warps even the most seemingly sensible of individuals after a while. Here is evidence of that.

[SoldierDad]

Mel: "What's human sacrifice," he asked, "if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?"

So, Mel, trying to stop the wholesale slaughter of innocent men, women, children by a brutal dictator is not "reason" to send troops to Iraq? Preventing a dictatorial regime from giving to terrorists weapons to be used against their common enemy (the U.S.) is not "reason" to send troops to Iraq? Preventing the use of Iraq as a terrorist training base is not "reason" to send troops to Iraq? Failure to adhere to 17 U.N. resolutions and constant harrassing of coalition jets in the no-fly-zone are not "reason" to send in troops to Iraq? What would you say, then Mel, would be sufficient reason to send troops into such a country? Or, is no reason sufficient in your "humble" estimation?