Please forgive me. I know this is easy, but it's so much fun.
"The actors ought to be highly praised for speaking out," Asner said. "It's ridiculous actors are the ones doing it. It strikes me as unbelievable that no legislators or leaders are in the press for speaking out."
Opposition to war with a country that uses lethal gasses on their citizens, coupled with the events of 9-11 is hardly a firm position to stand on. Donahue couldn't get ratings on MSNBC with those views. In politics, only protest candidates like Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich can afford to say such things, because they cannot be elected. Actors can still be laughed off, because we don't take them seriously anyway.
Asner said people who regard Saddam Hussein in the same manner as Adolf Hitler should rethink the reasons Iraq is in its current condition. He said years of economic sanctions and the effects of past U.S. strikes against the country have put the people in a tough position.
Nice Try, but Germany's Weimar Republic was even worse off than Iraq, because of the treaties that ended World War I. It probably had a great deal to do with why Hitler emerged into power. But Saddam Hussein was already a brutal dictator before the first Gulf War. The sanctions were exactly what liberals like Asner called for to prevent that war. Back then they promised that sanctions would bring Saddam to his knees. Now they say that sanctions caused his terror.
"It's just difficult for me to imagine Hussein goose-stepping into Warsaw," Asner said.
Yeah, Hussein probably wouldn't goose-step into Poland. He would have to cross the whole continent of Europe, and face that tough bottleneck at Istanbul.
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