Actor James Woods appeared on the October 12 Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In the show he praised President Bush's handling of the war on terror.
Woods maintained: “Now, of course, I think the President is doing an extraordinary job. It's a good thing I'm not President because I would have just [motioned hand to press a button launching missiles] launched. Okay, I'm sorry, I just would have. But our President and I just, I love George Bush right now and I always have. I'm the only guy in LA who voted for him [audience applauded]. And I have to tell you the way he's handling it is very deliberate, very careful and so on and doing the right thing.”
Following a brief return to what they discussed at the start of his appearance, how he can't talk about details of how he believes terrorists were onboard casing an American Airlines Boston to Los Angeles flight he took in August, Woods recommended we follow the Russian model for a response:
These people are genuinely, you know, out for our total and complete and ultimate destruction. So, kind of the way I would have done this thing is just kind of, oh let me tell you about the Russians because you have to ask yourself this, 'what would the Russians have done,' right? Here's a little story that I heard from a guy who actually was in on the raid against Libya, remember, Moammar Gadhafi? By the way, killed his whole family, blew the crap out of them, never heard from him again. A little lesson in there, okay. We didn't negotiate and worry about collateral damage and so on, just wiped them out, never heard from them again.
Leno then jumped in to insist that before time ran out Woods say something about his new movie, Riding in Cars with Boys, in which he stars as Drew Barrymore's father.
To see a RealPlayer clip of Woods' appearance on the Tonight Show, click here.
For a biography of Woods, go to the Internet Movie Database's James Woods page.
(For a previous article on James Woods featured at Catholic Exchange, click here.)
(This update courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
