Posted on 02/11/2003 1:27:30 AM PST by kattracks
We've heard from Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Dustin Hoffman and Sean Penn.But just when we thought we'd been treated to the foreign-policy positions of every actor except Butch (Eddie Munster) Patrick, still more celebs are weighing in on the looming war with Iraq.
Having praised President Bush's AIDS commitment last week in New York, Richard Gere played to the German crowd at the Berlin Film Festival the other day: "Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad dream. I keep asking myself where all this personal enmity between George Bush and Saddam Hussein comes from. It's like the story of Capt. Ahab and the great white whale from 'Moby Dick.' "
Dave Matthews, meanwhile, has taken to his Web site to declare that he had to speak his mind, lest "I will choke on my conscience."
"Saddam Hussein is a barbaric murderous dictator," writes the rocker. "I wish the world were free of him. But the answer is not to bomb this great culture of Iraq out of existence to stop him ... It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way ... for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration."
Sean Combs seems less willing to assign blame. At his Sean Jean runway show Saturday, the rapper gave his fuzzy analysis: "I'm totally against war - whoever's wrong.
"I think of peace everyday. I want us to all get along. It may sound corny. I would never use my show for a political statement about war or peace, but I'm strictly peace."
All the same, he explained that his military-looking jackets were meant to convey "a warrior-type of vibe, telling people we need to look internally."
That clears that up.
A Lott in common?
Is House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ripe for her own Trent Lott-like scandal?
Ultra-right ex-Congressman Bob Dornan claims Pelosi once defended abortion by invoking the old racist specter of a black man violating a white woman.
In the 1990s, Dornan, the conservative attack dog who represented California's Orange County for nine terms, says he approached Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat, at the door of the House chamber to appeal for her support on an anti-abortion bill.
Dornan tells us, "I said, 'Nancy, we're both Catholics with five children ... Why would you advance abortion?'
"She turned to me with those big eyes of hers and said, 'Bob, what would you do if one of your daughters was raped by a black man? You would want an abortion.'"
A press aide for Pelosi said she had "no response" to the story, which Dornan recounted recently on WWRL's "Peter and Shmuley Show" with Peter Noel and Rabbi Smuley Boteach.
Dornan, who lost his seat in 1996, doesn't believe Pelosi's "careless remark" means that she should give up her leadership position, as former Senate Majority Leader Lott did in December.
If there is a negative reaction, Dornan tells us, "She should examine the Trent Lott experience, and do the opposite of whatever he did.
"For all of her charm," Dornan gallantly adds, "Nancy might not be the rocket scientist that some of the media is portraying her as."
Saddam should thank his lucky stars that the rapper and hip-hop community has chosen to sit this one out.
It'll keep the Iraqui body count down to a minimum.
Gee .... ya think so?
Sounds like Pelosi should be in a "Lott" of trouble. But call me cynical, but I bet this thing goes nowhere.
I don't think she should give up her leadership position, no matter what. She's done more for moving swing voters to the Republican party than any person since Reagan.
Hang in there, Nancy!
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