Wally_in_Cincy
03-11-2003, 01:05 PM
Chrissie Hynde
One of the oft-repeated whines you hear from the anti-war crowd is that people say they're anti-American or that they're supporting Hussein by calling for continued inspections. Celebs say they're just exercising their right to free speech and being patriotic Americans by criticizing our government. Well how about someone who openly wishes for the United States to lose a war in Iraq, and says we deserve to lose? That's exactly what Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders said at a recent concert:
<font color="blue"> ...opined that she hopes the United States loses if it goes to war with Iraq ("Bring it on! Give us what we deserve!")</font color>
That's right, all of our young men and women in the armed forces deserve to die. You may feel like you deserve to be a loser, but why do we deserve it Chrissie? Because we're a free country, where a woman, even an empty-headed vegan like you, is free to play in a rock band and spout idiotic hate-filled nonsense like this? If you took to the stage in Iraq and said you hoped Iraq lost the war, Hussein would have your family tortured in front of you before having you raped and tortured to death and then fed to the dogs. I guess that's the side that deserves to win.
Chrissie's "vegan-fueled chutzpah" has never been in short supply (she once called for the assasination of corporate executives), but she's surprisingly ignorant on the subject of war with Iraq:
On the possibility of a war with Iraq, however, she seems disconnected. <font color="red">She says she never watches U.S. news and has never been on the Internet. The liberal Guardian is the one newspaper she buys in England. </font color>
At least she admits she doesn't know what's going on, which is more than you can say for most other celebrities.
Like any celebrity activist worth the name, she does have her cause though. The woman who wishes death on American troops and would like to see CEOs assasinated doesn't like it when The Gap sells leather:
The Pretenders singer demonstrated outside almost every Gap store that had the misfortune of being open when she and the Pretenders tore through town on their recent tour.
Way to go Chrissie, I'm sure all the dead cows in China are much happier knowing their skins aren't being sold at The Gap. Fortunately the US military still wears boots made of leather, boots that will be kicking in the door of Saddam Hussein's palace.
http://www.dumbcelebs.com/blog/archives/000038.html
One of the oft-repeated whines you hear from the anti-war crowd is that people say they're anti-American or that they're supporting Hussein by calling for continued inspections. Celebs say they're just exercising their right to free speech and being patriotic Americans by criticizing our government. Well how about someone who openly wishes for the United States to lose a war in Iraq, and says we deserve to lose? That's exactly what Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders said at a recent concert:
<font color="blue"> ...opined that she hopes the United States loses if it goes to war with Iraq ("Bring it on! Give us what we deserve!")</font color>
That's right, all of our young men and women in the armed forces deserve to die. You may feel like you deserve to be a loser, but why do we deserve it Chrissie? Because we're a free country, where a woman, even an empty-headed vegan like you, is free to play in a rock band and spout idiotic hate-filled nonsense like this? If you took to the stage in Iraq and said you hoped Iraq lost the war, Hussein would have your family tortured in front of you before having you raped and tortured to death and then fed to the dogs. I guess that's the side that deserves to win.
Chrissie's "vegan-fueled chutzpah" has never been in short supply (she once called for the assasination of corporate executives), but she's surprisingly ignorant on the subject of war with Iraq:
On the possibility of a war with Iraq, however, she seems disconnected. <font color="red">She says she never watches U.S. news and has never been on the Internet. The liberal Guardian is the one newspaper she buys in England. </font color>
At least she admits she doesn't know what's going on, which is more than you can say for most other celebrities.
Like any celebrity activist worth the name, she does have her cause though. The woman who wishes death on American troops and would like to see CEOs assasinated doesn't like it when The Gap sells leather:
The Pretenders singer demonstrated outside almost every Gap store that had the misfortune of being open when she and the Pretenders tore through town on their recent tour.
Way to go Chrissie, I'm sure all the dead cows in China are much happier knowing their skins aren't being sold at The Gap. Fortunately the US military still wears boots made of leather, boots that will be kicking in the door of Saddam Hussein's palace.
http://www.dumbcelebs.com/blog/archives/000038.html