Celebrities slam war

Chrissie Hynde: "Let's get rid of the economic screwing this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!" — at a March 1 Pretenders concert in San Francisco.

Danny Glover: "A nation that continues, year after year, to spend more money on defence than social programs is nearing spiritual death." — reported in the US Arbiter, January 27.

The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines: "Just so you know, we're ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas."

Dustin Hoffman: "I believe that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil." — Avanova, February 6.

Edward Norton: "I've almost forgotten what it is like to be proud of my government." — BBC News, February 13.

Harry Belafonte: "[9/11 has been used by the Bush administration to] extend its imperialist, economic and political domination all over the planet" — Granma, December 15.

Jessica Lange: "[Military action on Iraq is] wrong, immoral and basically illegal. It makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating." — October 7 Sydney Morning Herald.

Martin Sheen: "We're spending billions on this war while many children in school districts across the country are sharing books in crowded classrooms." US ABC News, February 19.

Peter Gabriel: "To put oil interests ahead of human life is appalling." — UK Daily Mirror, February 27.

Tim Robbins: "Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business." — The Nation magazine, November 4.

Woody Harrelson: "The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit." — the UK Daily Mirror, March 3.

From Green Left Weekly, April 2, 2003.

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From GLW issue 532