Terry Jones: Of course it's wonderful to see the human race rallying to the aid of [Asian tsunami] disaster victims, but it's the inconsistency that has me foxed. Nobody is making this sort of fuss about all the people killed in Iraq, and yet it's a human catastrophe of comparable dimensions.
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There are a lot of great quotes, notes, and lines in this article. I'm not going to quote them all, as much as I would like to. Iraqi lives are being aggressively and negatively affected by the war in Iraq, whether by insurgents or "coalition" forces. Wars are ruining lives all over the world (especially in Africa), yet they go ignored (especially if they're in Africa) by most of the world. And while it is great to see so much rallying to the aid of natural disaster victims, the treatment of man's worst disaster on man (war) is touched on ever so briefly, and always downplayed in the media. But hey - Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt broke up! Where should I go to send Brad some support money and Jen some support cuddling?
Of course, Terry Jones is an actor, director, and member of Monty Python. And British. Being an actor, and a foreign one at that, he should just stay out of politics like all people in Hollywood. Unless those people are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronald Reagan, etc.