[Catspaw]

Cruise isn't a Christian Scientist. He's a Scientologist. There's a BIG difference.

[Phantom Lord]

Well, if he doesnt want his kids living in America, then maybe his Ex-wife can take them to her native Austraila.

How quick would he be complaining that she was taking his kids away from him and out of the country?

[Severa]

Dunno. As a native Kentuckian I personally have been trying to disown this little snotball Kentuckian for some time. No luck so far.

[lifacs]

Were you watching the same show as I? Cruise did not say that, E.D. was reading the headline from a London newspaper, I think the Daily Telegraph. Cruise said he wanted to get his children out of America, crime is high, corporate crime, street crime etc. In essence America is not a good place to raise his children.

[spectre]

Tom Cruise's new box office flop movie "minority report" is soooo bad, that my husband and I actually WALKED OUT in the middle of it Saturday...

Fox gives the movie a thumbs up, because it's tied in to their company.

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[Wondervixen]

Why other women fawn over him is beyond me. Looks are fine but a REAL MAN has to have something upstairs and Tom Cruise is like most of the other pretty boys on the left coast...The kind you'd like to buy for what he's worth and sell for what he THINKS he's worth!

[truth_session]

Tom Cruise, you little girl, you have no shame. But anyone who isn't a total buffoon doesn't pay attention to what you say or think anyway. Just keep to the script Tom, you're only good for attracting brainless teenage girls and prostitutes.

[I still care]

Here is the original article posted by Ginle that they were talking about. It is different from the article above -and you can see why it raised their hackles.

THE world outside the US is now getting used to the fact Americans have a fraudulently elected nitwit as their president, but George W. Bush excelled himself this week with a "long-awaited" definitive speech on Middle East policies that stretched even the weirdest imaginations. BRUCE WILSON in London reports:

US embassies around the world moved to "explain" the batty future Bush saw for Israel and Palestine, but nothing could disguise that the bedbug was running the White House and anything could happen next. Hey, look. Even Tom Cruise is worried. In London this week he said he wanted his adopted kids brought up outside the USA because of what happens inside the USA. He listed terrorism and street crime, but very cogently he listed corporate crime as a reason not to bring up kids in the old US of A.

Now, Tom Cruise is not a Grade A rocket scientist. In fact, he is a Grade A Scientologist. On the whole, though, I would say he was brighter than George W. Bush (along with my neighbour's catatonic cat) and it was most intriguing that he named corporate crime as a reason not to want to grow up in America.

The WorldCom affair comes after the Enron affair while the Andersen affair simply defies belief. It has become perfectly clear that major US corporations have been running out of control, throwing billions of dollars into a kind of international financial black hole.

In vain you ask (as I tried to do), well, where has the money gone? I mean, if you back a loser at Randwick, then you know where your money went. If these companies have lost billions – $US3.8 billion in the case of WorldCom – why hasn't somebody won it? Or got it? Where has it gone? Or, more to the point, did it ever exist?

Of course it did, said the Doormouse. Otherwise, it could never have been lost and 17,000 people sacked for the lack of it. This is Alice in Wonderland stuff, capitalism rattling around like a high-velocity round in a mental vacuum. Where was government? Where was control?

Twenty years ago, when I lived in Washington, the US was said to have a trillion-dollar-a-day economy that was so strong not even government could screw it. Now, you have to ask if things have turned, that apparent fraudsters like WorldCom can screw government.

Dubya Bush seems reluctant to address these issues. He is a Texan (although not by breeding) and there they let things take their course, execute mentally deficient minors, and generally behave like good old boys, taking the Chevy to the levee.

If it were not for September 11, Bush would be in serious political trouble in America. He may be yet, in the mid-term November elections. His shocked nation rallied around him as the personification of The Flag when the atrocities stunned us all. His personal rating broke all records.

Since then, though, what? On this side of the Atlantic he is seen as a kind of strange joke. Britons try to understand him, but in Europe they simply think of him as a sort of circus act. The Middle East pronouncement was so absurd they didn't know whether to laugh or simply ask the US senior political attache over for a commiserating drink.

These concerns are based on the belief – that seems to be proven – that Washington itself is a divided city. Colin Powell, in State, is trying to plead reason over the clamouring voices in Defence, led by Donald Rumsfeld, clearly a man not always entirely in control of his senses.

Bush is listening to Rumsfeld, and other strange voices – not least the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. And, as he does, the US looks more and more to be a long way away from the rest of the world.

[I still care]

By the way, here is a link to the original FR thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/fo cus/news/708556/posts

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Cruise is a fairy jerk!!

His marriage to Kidman was as transparent as Hillary and Bill.

Why would two VERY busy movie stars adopt kids? They never are home.

I would be worried about neglect in this case. By whom are the kids being raised?

[The Iron Duke]

The arrticle in question was in the Daily Telegraph of Sydney Australia, and not the Daily Telegraph of London, England. The later is a pro-Tory party newspaper and generally supports Bush.

In fact, just yesterday the London Telegraph took an editorial position slamming the idea of the ICC and supporting the the Bush administration's opposition to it.

[VOA]

Fox news reports Tom Cruise insulted Pres. Bush in U.K.

Who cares what Tom Cruise thinks?

[mrfixit514]

Hey Cruise, Shut up you little queer. You are IRRELEVANT! No one cares what you think. You are a washed up homo that will disappear from the public eye in a few years.

[TC Rider]

There's a rumor he's gay. (snicker)

[SternTrek]

Quite simply,

Do not go to any of his movies, do not buy any of his movies.

[laconic]

The crime rate in the UK is 60 percent higher than it is here; you are much more likely to be the victim of a breakin IF YOU ARE AT HOME. This is because most homes have burglar alarms turned on when the owner leaves; since guns are banned, the louts know they can break in with impunity WHEN THE HOMEOWNERS ARE THERE, which they often do. So if Monsieur Cruise left the US because of, among other things, crime, he's right in the middle of it. Like many other Hollywood twits, he thinks that because he can make a movie, he's Einstein.

[Helms]

This man-boy from a economically depressed Syracuse NY needs to thank his lucky stars every day that he is in the top .5% of wage earners.
Grow up Tom!! ( vertically and intellectually).

[maplenut]

Was in a pub in Sydney a few years ago when Cruise walked in with some other blokes and most guys in the pub recognized him but thought he was a famous American jockey in OZ for some racing, primarily because of his height. He looks big, headed that is, on the cover of TIME. Whoever said he was a good actor anyway and why would TIME see fit to put him on their cover?

[zeaal]

Okay, we know tom's judgment is unbalanced based on his membership in a "church" that requires members to 'clear' themselves from some anicent alien beings that have become attached to church members ... he is worrying about raising his kids in America under Bush ... seems he should be concerned about raising his kids in his 'church'.

But, we live in the greatest land in the world where one can believe and practice any faith they desire.

[Benrand]

At least he's being honest. We never get to see how these emotional cripples really discuss politicians with real power and more education.