Anti-War Activist Sheryl Crow Entertained Troops in Bosnia

NewsMax.com ^ | Feb.24, 2003 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[conservativecorner]

Singer-turned-anti-war activist Sheryl Crow deplores President Bush's plans to liberate the people of Iraq, but she was singing a different tune when President Clinton dispatched U.S. forces to Bosnia in the 1990s.

In fact, not only did Crow not protest when Clinton sent U.S. forces to the Balkans, she traveled to the region with then-first lady Hillary Clinton to show her support and joined a USO tour to entertain the troops.

"Once over there I felt extremely patriotic," Crow told USA Today in April 1996. "Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace."

The singer then gushed, "I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music."

Crow was so supportive of the Clinton administration's decision to use military force in the Balkans that the Toronto Sun referred to her as "Hillary Clinton('s) sidekick in Bosnia."

The war protesting songstress even penned a tune about what she saw. Dubbed "Redemption Day," the composition was "an anthem condemning America's apathy toward Bosnia," according to the Albany Times-Union.

[conservativecorner]

I guess the Arkansas Mafia could do no wrong in Sheryl Crow's eyes. UNFRIGGIN REAL!!

[shadowman99]

Bump it!

[dfwgator]

It's about damn time somebody pointed this out.

[Keith]

why is anyone here surprised...

[Reagan Man]

Hey Sheryl, can you spell hypocrite?

[shadowman99]

email this to Rush, O'reilly, Hannity, etc...

[SquirrelKing]

Crow: No, see, this was like, you know, a freedom thing. People were being opressed and America was there to, you know help...

America: Zzzzzzz.

[PetroniDE]

Which troops, ours or theirs ?

[zarf]

Ok, it's obvious Uncle Bill was going down on her.

[dfwgator]

See, Sheryl is racist, where was the song condemning inaction in Rwanda?

[aristeides]

For Hollyweird and a lot of the left, Kosovo was a humanitarian war.

I wonder how they justify to themselves Clinton's quite deliberate refusal to do anything to stop the genocide in Rwanda (going so far as to forbid people in the U.S. government to use the word "genocide," and pressuring other governments against using it, for fear the Genocide Convention would be triggered and military action be compelled.) There was a quite moving Frontline show on this on PBS a few years ago.

[chimera]

All these wackos seem to be asking the question, "when did Iraq attack us"? I wonder why these Clinton wadswallowers didn't ask a similar question, "when did Serbia attack us?", or "what did Kosovo do to the United States?".

They're not anti-war, because they didn't protest Clinton's wars, and even supported them. They're anti-Bush, and I just wish that for once they would be honest enough with themselves and us to admit that.

[RightOnline]

Democrats = righteous, you know, like, war 'n' stuff. Republicans = evil, vicious, imperialist, warmongers.

F**king yawn.............

[CanisMajor2002]

Well, duh, she's not anti-war, she's anti-any-war-where-we-will-win-with-a-goal-and-an-exit-strategy :)

[MamaLucci]

Hillary's "sidekick" sounds like lesbo code to me.

[dead]

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

These just help to prove they are
on their knees to traitor clinton
and the bungler peanut farmer.

[votelife]

BUMP!

[dfwgator]

Don't get me started on Rwanda, and the role those bastard Frenchies played in it. They forfeited any right to lecture us about our foreign policy after their shameful role there.

[happydogx2]

Whoa!! A-cup is one thing but....aren't those "VC" type black pajamas??

happydogx2