Tough Talk From Hollywood Star



In an interview shown on Monday's (October 8) Entertainment Tonight, actor James Woods, who conceded “I'm sort of not your average liberal Hollywood bear,” asserted that “simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.”

Woods approvingly suggested that “if this had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minutes” and “and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.'”

Woods took the terrorist attacks quite personally since before they occurred he was on an American Airlines Boston to Los Angeles flight on which he thought several Middle Eastern men were acting suspiciously. Before September 11 he had reported to the FBI what he saw occur with his fellow first class passengers and is now convinced his flight was a test run for their operation.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight's Jann Carl completed before the U.S. response on Sunday, Woods urged on any U.S. retaliation:

I'm sort of not your average liberal Hollywood bear here so, you know, this is just a personal opinion but I happen to think right now that this is a war that we're now engaged in with the single most ruthless and cunning enemy that we have ever encountered because it's the first enemy we've ever had who doesn't mind if he is destroyed along with us. And he has no agenda other than our complete and utter and total destruction.

It's “we want you eradicated from the face of the Earth.” Well, simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

Woods also argued:

If this had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minutes. They would have been molten green glass, not a single thing would have lived there for 250,000 years and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said “we get the message.”

If the name James Woods does not conjure a visual image, go to the Internet Movie Database's page on him for a photo and listing of his many movie roles.


(This update courtesy of the Media Research Center.)

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