Oliver Stone's magical mystery tour

Oliver Stone's comments in relation to America's image and reaction to 9/11 might be the best example of pretzel logic ever seen. His bashing deserves some bashing.

First off, credit where due. He deserves a mention for not politicizing his "World Trade Center" film when he easily could have. He's obviously free to his own opinion about America, but I'm also free to an opinion about his opinion:

"From Sept. 12 on, the incident (the attacks) was politicized and it has polarized the entire world," said Stone. "It is a shame because it is a waste of energy to see that the entire world five years later is still convulsed in the grip of 9/11.

Well, as Hamid Karzai recently pointed out it was a TERRIFYING EVENT. Anytime people choose to jump out the window from the 90th floor to their certain death it's likely to remain in the collective memory banks for awhile. Like forever. He acts as if it was some trifling nuisance. The confusing thing is that most liberals claimed 9/11 was the galvanizing force that united the world, only to have the cuombaya chorus silenced by Bushitler's obsession with Uncle Saddam.

Oliver says there are more important things to worry about than fanatical head-chopping terrorists,

"It's a waste of energy away from things that do matter which is poverty, death, disease, the planet itself and fixing things in our own homes rather than fighting wars with others."

Sure, it's a waste of energy for the average Joe to be consumed with it, but hardly for the government. Perhaps Mr. Stone would like to whip out that handy Constitution and read the duties of the Commander-in-Chief sometime. But this was the best line of the piece:

"Mr. Bush has set America back 10 years, maybe more."

Let's see, reversing the clock ten would put us right back to the Khobar Towers attack, a crime committed in all likelihood by our friends the Iranians, whom we never "brought to justice". Shortly thereafter the world was treated to Clinton's wagging pointer telling us he wasn't really chasing a 20 year old intern for the purposes of phone sex while playing cigar tricks on the Presidential Seal in the Oval Office. Simultaneously bin Laden was declaring war on us--twice.

Therefore it's quite possible Stone was having intense drug flashbacks during the mid 90s, because anyone with the courage to review history without blaming Fox News knows that Ramzi Yousef came within an camel's eyelash of knocking WTC Tower 2 into Tower 1, then followed with a plot to blow up jumbo jets heading for America. Yes, the good ole days.

Stone's magical mystery tour of logic swirls around to inform us there were no 9/11 conspiracies before the event (surely sad news for all those 9/11 Truth professors) but wraps up with the following:

"That's the evil that turns its mind and ears on humanity and is able to say `I can kill a person in the name of God or religion.' This is not a human being, this a fanatic. And I fear that fanaticism is the result of our overreaction to 9/11," said Stone.

Dang, he almost had it! At the last minute he seemed to catch himself, probably remembering all his Hollywood connections or the few remaining hippie chicks still in play and quickly tossed in a bookend boilerplate Bush bash. After all, he's a cool guy...did that Vietnam movie, and all.

Stone is no different than thousands of others who've lost all perspective on what we're facing. If Bush was not there they would be hating someone else. Bush didn't create the hate needed to bomb Israeli children, Spanish and British commuters, nightclub partiers in Bali, or wedding party guests in Amman. The sooner we all realize we're in this fight together, politics aside, the better we'll be.

SUPPORTERS CHIME IN.. (update)

Here's a challenge for you. Here are some recent quotes about our Iraq policy. Guess who said them:

> "What more will it take for Washington to get the point that our continuing presence in Iraq has become a big part of the problem, not of the solution?"

> "In 40 days, we can put an end to this nonsense,"

> "Bush, O failure and liar, why don't you be courageous for once and confront your people and tell them the truth about your losses in Iraq and Afghanistan?"

> "I think the speaker is a desperate man for him to say that. Would you think that anyone in our country wants to coddle terrorists?"


Only one of them was from Ayman al-Zawahiri.

By the way, don't know if it's Blogger, fat fingers or Fox News, but apologize for the double and sometimes truncated posts.