“We had a million people in the streets…protesting Iraq, which was about as illegal as you could find. Did it matter? Is George Bush being tried in the high courts of justice?” asks Asner. “We’ve been so…stung in this country by false wars, repeatedly, that, how can you believe in any just war with the history we have had?” “I voted for him (Obama), but I’m not proud. He hasn’t thrown himself on the funeral pyre. I wanted him to sacrifice himself. Instead, he has proved himself to be a corporatist, and as long as he’s a corporatist, he’s not my president,” Asner adds. “A lot of people have lost hope — with the betrayals, the NSA spying …”theblaze/stories/2013/09/08/why-so-many-celebs-silent-on-syria-left-wing-actor-says-they-fear-anti-black-label-by-being-opposed-to-obama/
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