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On Friday, Metro interviewed “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, pro wrestler and star of The Condemned, which nobody went to see when it opened this past weekend. (Steve Austin, apparently, believes in global warming because “it seems like it just keeps getting warmer and warmer.”) The interview opened with this:
The White House has been searching for a new war czar in Iraq. If you were war czar, what would your strategy be?
Hell, I’d say — you want me to take a hard stand on this thing?
Sure.
I’d say, bomb ‘em. I’d just bomb the hell out of them, that’s my take on it. The long story short, just drop the bomb on ‘em.
With talk like that, you’d think Stone Cold would actually be named new war czar in a day or two. But all this interview did, apparently, was enrage an emailer, who wants more diplomacy from our nation’s pro wrestlers.
The letter in today’s paper, titled “Stone Cold’s comments ignorant”:
I’m appalled to read Austin’s comments on bombing Iraq. It’s ignorant comments such as that one that lay the foundation for the notion that Americans are ignorant and war- and power-hungry. “Bomb[ing] the hell out of” any country would take millions of innocent lives and create more tragedy and horror than could ever be justified.
That’s a last resort that I hope I never have to see used in my — or anyone else’s — lifetime. I’m disgusted to see it thrown about so nonchalantly by someone many young people idolize. As an American, I apologize to people that have family and friends Iraq, and want to state that not all of us think like barbarians. Good one, Steve Austin.
I’m against bombing the hell out of Iraq, but I’m pretty sure if we bombed letter to the editor writers, I wouldn’t be all that against it.
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