G. Clooney "I knew it then and I don’t have national security clearance"

[kpete]

Harsh words for Hillary Clinton
George Clooney — an outspoken critic of the Bush administration — also has some harsh words for Hillary Clinton.

The “Syriana” star says he is “frustrated and disappointed” that Clinton and many other Democrats were “scared” to oppose the war on Iraq, and “now they are paying the price.”

“I hate it when smart men and women are saying, ‘Well, if I knew then what I know now,’ ” Clooney told the Sunday Times of London. “The fact is: I knew it then and I don’t have national security clearance. . . . Basically, the Democrat leadership was scared and it’s too bad, because it’s come back to haunt them.”

Clooney’s choice for president: Barak Obama. “Of course he doesn’t want to right now; he just wants to be senator for Illinois,” Clooney told the paper. “But he could attract the two groups who rarely show up to vote — young people and blacks. He’s the guy to get behind.”

[LaurenG]

1. I'm “frustrated and disappointed” too

That's a very nice way to put it.

[annabanana]

2. he does everything

in a very nice way

(boy can't help it):loveya:

[LaurenG]

6. lol, well he's single and I bet he goes to Mayesville, Ky for

Christmas. Someone should be there to thank him on our behalf. :rofl:

[Lerkfish]

9. my wife is from there. its Maysville.

she has a "thing" for George. I'm under no illusions. If he showed up and opened his limo door, I'd be calling a cab.

:)

[LaurenG]

16. How funny (thanks for the correction)

I have noticed that many females really like George a lot. I am happy that he is speaking his beliefs but I've never personally thought he was all that. I prefer Orlando Bloom. :)

[LaurenG]

17. How funny (thanks for the correction)

I have noticed that many females really like George a lot. I am happy that he is speaking his beliefs but I've never personally thought he was all that. I prefer Orlando Bloom. :)

[WLKjr]

3. Millions of others knew it 3 and 4 years ago too.

I was one of them, talked to my liberal aunt about it before bush was elected.

I remember saying something to the fact after he made the nation building comment during the debates.... He was going to try to be like his daddy and go back to Iraq, but I wasnt sure one what he would use as a premise.

[DELUSIONAL]

20. I believe that the whole world knew the truth -- only bushie

though he could get away with just one more lie.

Liars are like that -- they think that they can get away with one more lie, on top of the lie they told a few minutes ago. It gets to the point where they no longer recognize the truth.

He either has bad parents (very likely), has a genetic defect, or his brain is so pickled with booze and drugs that he has long since lost the ability to differentiate fact from fiction.

[Skidmore]

4. Yeah, George. I've said that myself for a loooooonnnggg time.

Tell it.

[MadHound]

5. Thank you George, for using your celebrity to say

What a lot of us not so famous people have been saying all along.

If Hillary and Kerry and the other pro-war Dems had done their job, listened to their constituent and voted accordingly, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now. Instead they put their own personal political goals ahead of their primary job duty, and came down in favor of an illegal, immoral war that we cannot win.

[Cha]

8. It's like it was today..

calling hillary's and kerry's offices and writing e-mails..begging them not to do it.

And going to New York City on Feb 15, 2003 and Protesting in 20 degree weather when "THE WORLD SAID NO TO WAR"!!

I saw Bob Fertik there, too..one of the orginator's of democrats.com and I got to talk to him about what a tragic mistake it would be to invade Iraq.

George Clooney..thank you for Syriana..I hear that from the Writer and Director, Stephen Gaghan, on charlie rose that 5 Cons walked out of the screening in D.C. Must have hit a nerve!

[Clark2008]

7. I agree with what he says about the Dems in power, but

I'm sorry to say that Obama would also bring out the other faction of people: the racists and freeps.

I don't think Obama can win because I'm doubting, seriously, that he'd flip any red states. And, as my oft-repeated mantra, we have to flip some purplish states to win, to off-set Diebold and to better unite the country.

[Dawgs]

13. Disagree...

If we're afraid of putting someone like Obama up for President, then we will never win.

Many Republicans actually like this guy, and I can see him getting just as many independants as McCain. Most racists are Republican, so who cares about them. Freeps are going to vote anyways.

Who would you rather see be our candidate?

[Dawgs]

14. Sorry. I just saw your Clark image.

Clark is actually my second pick; right behind Obama.

I would take both of them. Either Clark/Obama, or Obama/Clark.

[gratuitous]

10. That's it, but only partly it

Because there was, in addition to easily available information contrary to the line being put out by the corrupt Bush administration, a massive media campaign to support the case for war. I got called lots of names and pointed to poll after poll showing public support for invading Iraq. I don't make my living conforming to public opinion, and I'm quite accustomed to being on the right side of an issue and the wrong side of the prevailing wisdom, so I didn't give much of a rip. For a politician, it's quite a different proposition.

There are now politicians who voted for invading a country that hadn't attacked us and was no demonstrable threat to us and who now regret that vote. I'd greatly prefer they not compound their error with a lie about how they didn't know or couldn't have known, and just put the hat on an administration that lied, manipulated and defrauded the public into this war. What do they have to lose? Access they don't have anyway? An illusion of comity wherein they play nice and the Republicans sneer openly at them? But they just luh-ove them so much!

[argyl]

11. Thank you Mr. Clooney, Mr. Penn, Mr. Robbins, Ms. Sarandon, et al.

Please continue to use your status to hold these gutless wonders's feet to the fire. If politically savvy celebrities such as yourselves are the only people with a forum who have the courage to speak out against this corrupt and evil administration then God bless you and keep up this good and vitally important work. I'm so sick of this GOP Lite I could scream.

I've gotten a number of mailings from Sen. Clinton. She must have quite a war chest built up. I'm not going to be increasing it.

I'll be using what funds I can spare to assist in the election of progressive candidates who have the courage to point out the obvious, that the Boy King is an imbecile and is naked as a jaybird to boot.

George Clooney. Now there's a George I COULD have a beer with.

[xchrom]

12. good lookin and smart.

but i also say let the chips fall where they may -- if hillary is going to pay the price -- so what.
somebody else can step up -- will step up -- and do a better job.

i'm unwilling to prop up somebody with as significantly weak a position as the one hillary is touting.

[realFedUp]

15. didn't we all.....

I wish truth and politics weren't a chasm apart...

[atommom]

18. We all freakin' knew. I just don't buy their story.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. Crazy ass left wing brown shirt @##$ %^&*#@.

I don't even think I need to post the :sarcasm: