Tony Bennett on 9/11 Attacks: ‘They Flew the Plane in, But We Caused It’

It will require a few honest, humble and well respected individuals to have the courage to speak freely. Sounds as if we have someone with a first-hand account of not only war but looking into the eyes of a maniac like Bush. Thank you Mr. Bennett. Your sensitivity and comprehension towards people who wage war is as insightful as your interpretation of the lyrics of a love song.

There is never an excuse for terrorism.POSTED BY: ATTITUDE *****
Had the word “terrorist” been the lingo centuries ago,
King George would have called Gen. George Washington
a traitor and terrorist. How ironic.

Just lost respect for an idol of mine. Again he proves just because your a good actor, artist, singer and famous doesn’t mean your a bright person, your good at your craft and dumb as the day is long in common sence.
Sorry Tony. Your an IDIOT!!!

Tony Bennett is a traitor. More and more people are questioning 9/11. They are all traitors. God bless America.

I agree with Mr. Bennett. Sounds like the honorable Ron Paul.

It was not the fault of your everyday person. But President Ike warned us in 1959 to beware of the Industrial War Complex. They are the culprits to all of this mass distruction and death. The WAR MACHINE is pure profit on blood of the innocent. There are only two reasons for war. To kill people and make money. Any other reason is usually BS involved.

There is never an excuse for terrorism.POSTED BY: ATTITUDE *****
Had the word “terrorist” been the lingo centuries ago,
King George would have called Gen. George Washington
a traitor and terrorist. How ironic.

Posted by: michael | September 19, 2011, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm
***********************************************************************************************************

You and I both know I was referring to modern terrorism.

The comment about bush,s admission that he had made a mistake concerning Iraq is downright amazing.

Stick to cooning Tony.

So , a guy who fought in WW2 and who has obviously seen hellish war firsthand comes out with his opinion that war is a terrible terrible thing and that perhaps flawed or at least misguided US foreign policy just may have precipitated unnecessary bloodshed , and he’s verbally attacked and denigrated by Americans like I see here ? Mr. Tony Bennett is now about 100 times bigger to me than ANY person who’d advocate any kind of violence. If everybody taught their children to think like he does , wars would become extinct within a generation or two .Violence always leads to more of the same ,it’s a circle that can only be broken by good men unafraid to speak the truth . Thank you Mr. Bennett , much respect to you.

Tony, we know you left your heart in San Francisco but did you have to prove it so blatantly?

I’ll give you a mulligan since you are probably suffering from old folks disease.
That’s when old people who are supposed to be wise say really mind numbing dumb things.
He probably made the mistake of listening to that Gaga Chick too much.

It will require a few honest, humble and well respected individuals to have the courage to speak freely. Sounds as if we have someone with a first-hand account of not only war but looking into the eyes of a maniac like Bush. Thank you Mr. Bennett. Your sensitivity and comprehension towards people who wage war is as insightful as your interpretation of the lyrics of a love song.

Posted by: Rob Dent | September 19, 2011, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What? This man is good at ONE thing….entertaining us…he is a paid JESTER…and YOU believe this tripe?
Seriously man….where is YOUR brain?

We weren’t bombing anyone before 9/11. Either Tony Bennett is a bit addle-brained, given his advanced age, mistaking the bombing we did AFTER 9/11 with what happened before, or he’s a dirty no-good commie traitor. His comments are akin to blaming the US for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

“I wasn’t aware of America intentionally bombing inocent civilians anywhere.” – POSTED BY: R. SARGENT | SEPTEMBER 20, 2011, 12:58 AM 12:58 AM
——————————————————————————————————————-
“Seriously? Are you serious? Are you aware of your country’s history at all??? You honestly must be joking.” — Posted by: Laura | September 20, 2011, 8:10 am 8:10 am
——————————————————————————————————————-
Please enlighten us dumb Americans.

I respect anyone who has served this country and had to deal with a disgusting thing such as war. But I see Mr. Bennett’s as almost childlike and simplistic. Not really able to deal with the evil of this world and have real solutions. It is so easy to say, war is bad and we should just not do it. Nothing is more ignorant than someone who has a lot of opinions but no real solutions. These people are dangerous to our country and our world who have such a big audience and no substance. There is right and there is wrong. The answer is to be firm in what you believe in and stand tall, do not back down. Freedom is the answer for this world and everyone should be working toward that goal, not pointing fingers and deciding who is the most evil for their actions.

Sounds like Mr. Bennett left more than his heart in San Francisco.

If Tony became a pacifist when first he saw a dead German, and everyone on our side had felt like him, we’d all be slaves today and speaking German, Russian or Japanese.

If he is so stupid that he can’t seem to understand the difference between our side in WWII and the Axis powers, then he is very stupid indeed. I do not support his incredibly naive view, nor will I ever buy any of his music which fortunately never held much appeal for me anyway.

Mr. Bennett, I believe you left your brain in San Fransisco.

If Tony became a pacifist when first he saw a dead German, and everyone on our side had felt like him, we’d all be slaves today and speaking German, Russian or Japanese.
If he is so stupid that he can’t seem to understand the difference between our side in WWII and the Axis powers, then he is very stupid indeed. I do not support his incredibly naive view, nor will I ever buy any of his music which fortunately never held much appeal for me anyway.
****************************************************************************************************

BINGO!

I wonder why Mr Bennett did not become a pacifist when he saw his first dead or maimed American. I think that his publicist is behind most of the statements he made.

Who were we bombing that precipitated 9/11?

Cannot people understand that we are “in the way” of the establishment of a world wide caliphate. Cannot people see that the acts of people who shoot doctors and bomb abortion centers (or math buildings) are cut from the same cloth as Al Qaeda? They hope, that by terrorizing innocents, they will get their way.

Dementia has ‘set in’!!!

Too much fudge packing for that liberal. It’s coming out his ears.

Tony is old and reeks of bourbon and urine. I think he has clearly lost his mind. Pehaps its the matted, ‘dirty sock’ smelling rug on his head that causes this disorientation.

Someone needs to take Mr. Bennet’s keys and microphone – senility is not pretty.

Would Mr. Bennet say “Hitler invaded Poland but we caused it”? or “Hitler murdered 6 million Jews but we caused it”? or the “Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor but we caused it”?…didn’t think so.

The unfortunate reality is that sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in. People have the right to express their dissatisfaction with fighting, only because others have fought the battles they view with such disdain.

Gee, is he really that stupid?

Wow.. Tony Bennett is truly an idiot. I really hate when these know-nothing famous people act like they are some type of foriegn policy expert. Tony, you obvious don’t have a clue, shut up and sing and stay away from stuff you haven’t a clue.

Sorry you feel that way Tony, but I don’t remember hearing anything from you 8 years ago when we went into IRAQ or even 10 years when we went into AFGHANISTAN. You were 75 y.o. then but said nothing now at 85 you speaking like a fool. Maybe you should take a page out fo Laura Ingram book and SHUT UP AND SING.

a pathetic, weak-minded fool, corrupted by liberal cowardice and dementia. a disgrace to his generation. to hell with him and every despicable, disloyal, america-bashing puke like him.

Ron Paul will be our next President. Ron Paul 2012

Keep singing Mr. Bennett, but in the interest of sanity, refrain from making comments which expose your naivite, stupidity, or just plain ignorance. Perhaps the std’s and drug use have affected your judgement. As someone once said it is better to be quiet and let people think you are dumb, than to open your mouth and prove that you are.

A lifetime of palling around with the Hollywood crowd…what do you expect? Obviously, his record sales and currying favor within an industry that is rabidly left-wing is more important to Mr. Bennett than providing a truthful response to Howard Stearn.

“They flew the plane in, but we caused it,” Bennett responded. “Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.”

Really Tony? Really? if you actually believe that, and you’re not just throwing a little red meat to the liberal moonbats who you work with and for, then shame on you for your naivety and stupidity. And the W comments? If anyone thinks that happened anywhere but in Tony’s alcohol damaged brain, I can lay 100/1 odds that person also thinks the Obama administration is doing a terrific job on the economy, that the lack of “civility” only applies to Republicans, and that the T.E.A party is filled with racists while La Raza and the Black Congressional Caucus is simply representing their constituents.

OBVIOUSLY TONY LEFT HIS BRAIN IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Once again some old dude wakes up and decides he needs to make some remark to be noticed again. He was a hit 50 years ago. No more. Terrorisim is what it is. The people who want to kill all Americans and Israelis, are islamo-fascists. Howard Stern is another worthless old dirt-bag who should go somewhere else.

Our leaders count on the fact that critical thinking skills are non-existent. They intentionally leave than out of the curriculum.. nothing like an ignorant “God Bless America” chanting babbling idiots to maintain the status quo..(1984 anyone?) go brush up on history before you make irrelevant uneducated comments about someone’s opinion…challenge it with verifiable facts not emotionally driven rants. We’ve all been brainwashed to believe WAR=FREEDOM.. someday, when we’ve blown ourselves back to the dark ages.. maybe we will re-evaluate these values.. let’s just hope there’s enough people left to re-populate and start anew.

I have earned a new respect for Tony Bennett! He makes perfect sense!

The US fired 75 missiles into Afghanistan during the attack on Bin Laden’s camps on August 20, 1998. A report four months later in the Pakistani newspaper Ausaf, cited Taliban sources as saying that 40 were found unexploded. Report have it that China obtained the unexploded ones.

I loved his comments to Howard Stern “But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right,” Bennett said.

In a soft-spoken voice, the singer disagreed with Stern’s premise that 9/11 terrorists’ actions led to U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“They flew the plane in, but we caused it,” Bennett responded. “Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.”

Tony Bennett is RIGHT ON THE MONEY! Tony Bennett for President/George Clooney for VP! Perfect ticket!

What a flake. No wonder he sings so affectionately of Sn Francisco, his mindset is at home in such a crunchy, nutty place. I agree with every view he had and took away from his service in WWII. It’s the 9/11 comments that make no sense, and make him shameless in pandering to his lefty star buddies. While I agree war is the lowest form of human behavior, Bennett fails to recognize the necessary components of liberty. It’s not always pretty, and sometimes it’s needed to resort to animalistic instincts, but this is the price we pay for liberty. You either want it, or you don’t. There is no middle ground. The flaw that is liberalism seeks to find it. It’s insanity defined.

Tony, you and the Hollywood Left are idiots. Go snort your Coke, smile, and shut the f* up!

“We’ve all been brainwashed to believe WAR=FREEDOM.. ”

Yes brainwashed by the FACT that it’s proven true time and time again Tata! There will always be war, as long as there is evil in this world there will be war. It’s a sad fact of life. Sorry your small liberal mind can’t handle that!!

Tony Bennett must be getting dementia. What a traitorous jerk.

I lost a lot of respect for Mr. Bennett years ago when he said that America had no culture. This is a man who has made a living singing songs written by America’s greatest composers. Ever hear of Jazz, Tony?

Thanks to the mainstream news in the USA and my indoctrination while growing up there I used to have the same feelings as many Americans.. Who are these Actors, Singers, Entertainers, etc to have an opinion about anything related to their country or the world? Apparently they can’t. (And of course neither can I.) Thankfully I left the USA and have experienced many years in other countries actually experiencing what takes place there rather than hearing made up stories on the mainstream corporate news.

And there is such a thing as “Blow Back”. If I’m not mistaken it’s a term that the CIA came up with. Basically it’s nothing more than ‘The way you treat others will effect the way they treat you in return’. 911 is one example of the USA experiencing this ‘blow back’.

There have been some studies that showed that the majority of countries that harbor much hate for the USA is none other than the same countries that the USA has been bombing, going to war with, installing puppet dictatories in, etc.

I hope some of you will do some real studying up about the history of the USA and it’s occupations, bombings, and whatever they like to tell us is just ‘spreading democracy’.

You know that nuclear facility in Iran that the US is always going on about… guess who originally paid for it and built it!? Our government!

You know that gas that Iraq had that they used on some Iraqis? After no weapons were found we were all told it’s ok cause they had gas they used once, so they still sort of had big bad weapons!… Again our government gave it to them.

Peace

I wasn’t aware of America intentionally bombing inocent civilians anywhere. R.Sargent
————————————————————————————————————-

Really? Where were you throughout Clinton’s presidency?

Iraq in the 1990s? Bombing runs and sanctions killed hundreds of thousands of children throughout the 1990s. Madeline Albright said that it was “acceptable”.

Sudan? We destroyed a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant leading to hundreds of thousands of people unable to get needed medicine.

Bush 41? Assured Saddam we wouldn’t get involved with Iraq’s border dispute with Kuwait.

Reagan? Backed Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War. Traded weapons with Iran (via Israel) to pay for the brutal Contras in Nicaragua.

Need more history?

Posted by: SFC MAC | September 20, 2011, 9:25 am 9:25 am

SFC MAC, you win the coveted Post-o-da-Day Award™ for September 20th 2011.
Yes, we haven’t gone far enough and apologies are for Liberanthonys.

Tony Bennett is a great singer, but, he should keep his opinions about 9/11 to himself. We were attacked because we believe in equality for all people, and the terrorists hate and want to kill anyone who thinks different than they do. If the terrorists got their hands on Tony Bennett, they would probably kill him in a second, for not believing in the same thing as them. You have the right to express your opinions Mr. Bennett, but, you are wrong about why we attacked–they hate us and the ideals our country stands for; which the rest of the planet Earth looks up to. Such as the fact that the President of the USA is Barack Obama. A symbol of the American dream of hard work and education often leads to sucess.

was going to purchase duets 2, but not now–he is a jerk!

Yes! we should listen to a former drug addict for world views, yeah!

“I think I made a mistake” – Tony, please, if you think that George Bush would entrust YOU out of all the people in the world to speak such a line is simply ludicrous. In short, you have lied. He never said anything of the sort to you that night. You two spoke for 30 seconds that evening and as I recall, the two of you were laughing the entire 30 seconds. Shame on you and I’ll most certainly not be coming to see your shows anymore.

Only mistakes made were invading Iraq and not invading Northern Pakistan

I was unaware that we were bombing Afghanistan when the plot was launched. And to my knowledge, we have never bombed Saudi Arabia, so obviously the man is delusional. Islamist extremist really couldn’t care less what you do or say….you are not a muslim, and must be killed. Period.

Another “star” who shoots off his mouth. Guess I won’t be going to the new Palladium near my home to hear Tony when he comes to town. Does Mr. Bennett also have similar comments about the current president who sends troops and aircraft into Libya without Congress’ approval? Or kills “enemy combatants” using drones, going into allied territories? Didn’t think so.

Most of the 9/1 terrorists were Saudi’s. We were not bombing Saudi Arabia. This man is either a liar, a fool or a nut. But liberalism is a mental illness.

Senility is a terrible thing.

“To blame the US for the heinous attack on innocent civilians on 9/11 is absolutely shameful.” -DEB

To blame the people of Japan for the heinous atomic bombings of Japanese civilians in 1945 is absolutely shameful.

To blame the people of Iraq for the heinous bombings and sanctions that killed a million Iraqi children during the 1990s is absolutely shameful.

To blame the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan for the heinous predator drone bombings that have killed thousands of civilians since 2001 is absolutely shameful.

See how that works? Deb and the other haters here think only American lives matter. Only Americans have a right to avenge the killing of their countrymen, even if it means killing people who bear no guilt — i.e., even if it means doing to others exactly what the “terrorists” did to Americans.

Tony Bennett has told the truth. And unlike the chicken-haws here, he has seen war firsthand. He did not blame the victims. What he said should not be controversial. People in other countries get just as angry as Americans when they are attacked, occupied, controlled and humiliated. Just as Americans thirsted for blood — any blood would do — after 9/11, so the Muslims want revenge for the many crimes of the U.S. government against the Iraqis, Palestinians, Iranians and others.

Haters, grow up and face reality so our children and grandchildren don’t have to live in a totalitarian fortress state, constantly under threat from their own government and its enemies overseas.

I pity the people who still don’t see the truth. There are plenty of countries who enjoy prosperity like we (used to before going broke) and they are closer and easier targets. Why do we get attacked? Because we don’t know how to mind our own business. The years leading up to 9/11 Bush, Sr and Clinton had been bombing and embargoing the Middle East. Millions of innocent people died in the bombings and the famine. Wouldn’t you get pissed off?

It seems few people understand what he’s saying. Even though the attacks were by extremists, it wasn’t a response to nothing. When one or more peoples are oppressed and have no recourse, no way to fight in some traditional military fashion, they resort to unthinkable tactics, like suicide bombings. Fanatics gain followers and backers where they would not have otherwise. I LOVE America the country, but as a nation with a foreign policy that supports all sorts of evils around the globe, the blood is on our hands as much as anyone else’s and we’re unwilling to see it. 9-11 can never be justified, but to deny all culpability is the ultiamte moral failure that will perpetuate global conflict, not resolve it.

Who bombed the WTC in 1993, Bennett? They attacked us on our soil first and did so until we struck back. How about the soldiers who are being killed by crazy muslims with guns here on American military bases and IEDs? You are a tratior Bennett. Maybe you will think about apologizing to our honorable military- that description doesn’t include you as you are total scum. I hope then end of your life is as miserable as you are.

The muslims are the enemy and are taking over right now. Immigrating muslim couples breed at a rate of 8.1 children per woman. This is one of their strategies in taking over countries. See London.

Their intent is to not only make more muslims but take every social handout available.

Stick to your music, Mr. Bennett. It’s what you’re incredibly good at.

Tony Bennett is right. Our bombings/blockades/sanctions/support of brutal regimes going back to the 50′s kills probably millions of people (mainly children and elderly) and Americans don’t bat an eyelash. 3000 Americans get killed and all of a sudden its an outrage. So again, who started it and who’s the bigger terrorist?

Geez, are people dense? The connection to Saudi Arabia was the fact that we had a military base there that we used to bomb Iraq throughout the 90s.

Medina and Mecca are in Saudi Arabia.

People need to listen to more than what the mainstream media tell them. Just google “US interventions in the middle east”. You’ll see we’ve been meddling there a lot longer than just the past two decades.

Hey Tony why don’t you leave your heart in America, and get the He _ _ out!!!!

Bennett is delusional. Why do these freaks in Hollywood place so much value on themselves? Do they really think that intelligent people fall for their liberal crap? Does Bennett think that he is so important that the president of United States would confide in him….and that anyone with a brain would believe the singer? He is delusional.
Here are some wise words for the jerks/libs/entertainers/singers….shut up and sing! We don’t support your words, movies or your music. What would you ‘entertainers’ do without government subsidies?
To quote a wise, hard working, patriotic and honest WWII veteran….”I’d like to buy this guy for what he’s worth and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth”.

Well scratch this one off my Itunes list. Tony my father died of complications from disease when in the France in WW2. I am glad you were not his foxhole buddy as he did his duty to rid the world of evil and the Axis powers.
If you want to sell albums then keep your pacifist mouth shut. Personally it does not sound like a pacifist but rather blame America first. Just who were we bombing that caused the 911 terrorist act?
No fool like an old fool!
Now I have to go look for the Christmas album and snap that widget in half.

So, Tony Bennett is saying the attack by the Islamists on 9/11 was justifiable homicide? Very patriotic, Mr. Bennett. I guess when they next detonate that nuke in San Francisco, floated up the bay in a little fishing boat, it is only fair and reasonable we suffer the devastation.

You should sing a duet with Hanoi Jane Fonda, Mr. Bennett, maybe raise money for a memorial to your 9/11 heroes that piloted the planes after hijacking them.

He is of the generation that blamed the rape victim, too.

He sure isn’t one of the greatest generation ,we saved the world during world war two and yet he is a “pacifist”IE.coward.

Perhaps it’s time to retire, your mind has obviously done so….
I hope you understand THESE comments are now going to be YOUR LEGECY…such a sad way to end it….

Celebrities live in a fantasy world and should stay out of politics and commentary altogether. Why does anyone care what any Hollywood or music celebrity thinks? In this case, Bennett is simply repeating what his liberal celebrity friends have said over and over again. However, the normal people of the world know that terrorism is not justified, that we did not cause the 9-11 attacks, that we didn’t cause the 100s of other terrorist attacks. These attacks are caused by radical Islamist terrorists that have an agenda to destroy the West and expand their influence. Is is happening throughout the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In the US in 2001, there were 1200 mosques, now there are over 2000. We now have prayer rooms in schools and businesses to accommodate Muslims, and some US judges are recognizing sharia law. Don’t tell us normal Americans that we aren’t under attack. Don’t tell us we provoked them.

You need to stick to what you know old fool.. singing.

to the rest of you libs … thank God it was Bush and not the current clown we had in office on 9/11/11. We’d be running for our lives still today.

Unfortunately, too many so-called conservatives have become the obverse of liberals. Liberals call for an unending welfare state, with ever increasing expenditures and ever broadeniing reach of social programs. Conservatives have abandoned their limited government roots in the area of foreign policy, advocating endless wars in distant places against enemies far less dangerous than Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. Both liberals and conservatives regard the Constitution as a scrap of paper. The liberals hate the Second, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments. Conservatives dislike the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Both Democrats and Republicans are pro-big government parties.

The choices should not be the welfare state vs. the warfare state. We need change, and neither Obama nor most of his Republican competitors offer it.

Anyone who thinks that the targeting and murder of 3000 innocent American civilians in response to the actions of our government is understandable, justified, or just deserves rebuke and scorn, if not a swift kick in the nuts.

“Had the word “terrorist” been the lingo centuries ago,
King George would have called Gen. George Washington
a traitor and terrorist. How ironic.”

Poppycock. He might have incorrectly used the term, as the left is wont to do, but Americans have never targeted British citizens for death in order to change the Crown’s policy.

jimb wrote, “Looks like we won’t be BUYING his new album”

LOL! As if you were planning to do so before this story. I’ll bet good money you didn’t even know he had a new album coming out…………

I have seen several military cemeteries in American. There are many more in other countries. It is sad to know that each grave marker is held up by the mortal remains of some who probably fought and died giving us the freedom
of speech that is now used against us.
Seems that he left more than his heart in San Franciso!
What else would we expect from California?

Once again, a story which is just begging to ask, “Who really cares what Tony Bennett thinks? Is he running for President or something?” I mean seriously, folks, the old buzzard should just keep singing. Reminds me of the Streisand/Clinton days….

l. Not all Germans were Nazi. Many young men had to fight just like the draft in US. 2. Maybe no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but the mass graves were evidence of oppresive murdurous control by Hussein. 3. There will always be war and people are not civilized. WAR is never the answer but humans are too small-minded. Like animals we use violence to solve problems. Not any one nation is ‘better’ than another. Every nation THINKS it’s beliefs are right. I agree with many points made here on both sides. One being that Bennett is free to leave any time. Ba’-bye!

Do we realize by going into Iraq, when we didn’t find any WMD’s, and by killing thousands of their people, overthrowing their government, and more, that we have created new terrorists?
Imagine if China came here and bombed us, overthrowing our government, killing our families and didn’t find the threat. How would we feel? Would we not respond in some measure? What if Iran had bases in America?
The problem is, half of us never put the shoe on the other foot. We think we’re perfect as a country and we’re not. For every action there’s a reaction, whether we like it or not.

Another Barbra Streisand with an opinion. Well, you know the saying – “Opinions are like A**holes” – everyone’s got one, and they all stink!” Sorry Tony – you may be a great painter and singer but when it comes to being a TRUE American you are not. My father fought on Iwo Jima for his country and he did kill Japanese – could you go back and make a case to justify their attack on Pearl Harbor? Probably – if you were Japanese. For someone as old as you you seem to have never learned a very harsh life lesson – survival of the fittest AND there are nasty evil people out there in the world. History will record the era from 1945 – 2011 as a period of Pax Americana my poor dumb singer. Freedom loving people lived in peace or were necouraged to seek it by a benevolent generous country and its people. NEVER in the history of the world has a country as powerful as ours been so peaceful – we did not make ANY effort to take over the world, though for a time after WWII we had every capability to inflict nuclear terror on anyone who disagreed with our ambitions. But guess what – we had none. We only wanted to be left alone and to live in peace – so we disarmed, brought our troops home and rebuilt Europe. Some victor reaping the spoils of war – NOT. You think modern day China will behave the same way when it becomes a supreme superpower???? Really??? If you do I have a bridge to sell you.

This country is in a civll war right now for its future – between small government capitalists adhering to the vision of our founding fathers, or to the Great Society big government of tax and spend liberals. The election of 2012 is shapiing up the be our generation’s Gettysburg. The victor will determine what this country will be like for years, if not generations, to come.

So Mr. Bennett – keep your stinking opinions to yourself. I haven’t bought a Barbra Streisand album in 40 years, and would not go across the street for a free concert. Nice company you keep – traitor.

Dear Tony,

You obviously left your heart in San Francisco but where did you leave your mind? I’m convinced it has gone missing! Nothing, I repeat nothing, justifies the evil that has been unleashed against us as well as mankind. Oh, the good life…

A Disillusioned Fan

…. And just who started WWII in Europe and the Pacific ? It certainly was not the United States.
Tony, 9-11 was done by Islamic Terrorists who started the wars. Where were you on 9-11 /
Sorry Tony, tell that to those who lost their loved ones on 9-11 and in the European and Asian wars.
your comments will indeed be your legacy.

I am NOT trying to be facetious since I had a parent who suffered from dementia and don’t take it lightly, , but I do think Bennett is starting to show signs of this problem. He would be better off sticking to singing as long as he can and keeping his political opinions, non-sensical as they are, to himself.

thank you Mr. Bennett for speaking the truth! we kill people everyday in the name of peace and we never take responsibility. While I don’t think 9-11 should have happened, I understand why you think whe started the war.

I can never recall rushing to the radio to turn up a Tony Bennett song. Great entertainer? When I would see him on TV, he would sing a string of songs, sweat like a pig and get a standing ovation. Now is the time in his life when we will see him on award shows, (pick one) and he will get some life time achievement award for has beens. This will likely be due to his blame America views rather than his talent. Let’s face it, the guy never was all that. I think the east coast crowd admired him. Go figure. The Dixie Chicks are a perfect example of what happens when entertainers bite the hand that feeds them.

Looks like all the apologist left wing nut cases are posting today. Tony I see a RAPID decline in your album sales…should have stuck with the montage…”Shut up ans sing!”

This is why you do not single out entertainers, like Bennett, with the reflective powers of a poached-egg, to make ethical judgments and opinions on complicated policy issues, let alone atrocities, that affect American citizens. One might as well say, yeah, Bennett, and on the Dec. 7th, 1941, the Japanese may have flown the planes, but we caused Pearl Harbor. So sad! The ‘cocktail left’ are not thinkers, let alone moral philosophers, as they merely respond according to the mental mush of their warped cultural surroundings. In this case, its the echo of a pampered ideology that stems from the dripping wealth and pop-fame of Hollywood.

After reading all these comments glorifying war, I am amazed at how well the media/government propaganda has been working over the past 30 years. Being a patriotic American does not mean you have to blindly agree with every action taken by your government. You have an obligation, as a citizen, to ask questions and verify. It is obvious that most posters on this page have read nothing and know nothing, except what they are told on FoxNews. Our country is in deep trouble because of people like you. Please – don’t blindly accept everything you are told. And Mr. Bennett – from the bottom of my heart, I thank you.

your 15 minutes are up Tony…time to pass as your brain has

Sure glad Mr. Bennet cleared up where the fault lies regarding 9/11. I guess the Taliban were justified in kidnapping 30 Pakistani boys ages 12 to 18 because the boys were a threat due to them having a picnick.

Just another entertainer I can cross off my ever expanding list that already includes Robert Redford, Sean Penn, Barbara Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Ed Asner, Mike Farrel, Susan Sarandan, etc. etc.

Tony Bennett, a senile, mediocre talent, lounge singer. Next out of this geniuses mouth? the cure for cancer.

Did we cause them to attack the Cole also? Did we cause them to attack the World Trade center in the 90s? Did we cause them unbelievable pain by purchasing their oil and making them wealthy nations and wealthy families (such as the bin Laden’s)? Entertainers are so ignorant that it is appalling. This is tantamount so saying that the people being raped and enslaved in the Congo are responsible for themselves being attacked because, darn it, they just won’t stop existing.

Seriously, people are likening Tony’s statement that we caused 9/11 to rape and Pearl Harbor. It’s tough to know where to start with broken logic like that. If the Japanese had attacked us after prolonged economic warfare which had crippled their economy as well as us having bombed them for years, then your weak analogy would be spot on. The weird form of patriotism I see coming from those bashing Tony Bennett would have made our founding fathers, well, probably only minorly annoyed and disappointed. They were used to provincial thought and realized that most people didn’t have the internal resources to handle large concepts with any critical reasoning. You Tony bashers on here are amazed and upset but sat on your hands when it became overwhelmingly evident that there were no WMD’s and the media, from which you derive all of your skewed opinions, lied systematically at the behest of our government. Another trap you small minded people fall into is blaming things on partisan politics. It’s like your routing for your team and the other team “totally sucks bro”. Bush was a liar and Obama is a big fat liar too. You get mad at Tony Bennett because it’s easy and doesn’t challenge you in any way. You don’t get mad at media and government when you get lied to and hundreds of thousand of people die. You fake patriots will have the country you deserve. Change it and yourself. Get educated.

Tony’s right. The rest of you who are bashing him are afraid of facing the truth.

Wow, Bennet is the poster child for the term “useful idiot”, along with some of the people commenting on the idiot’s musings. Religious fanatics must be drunk with joy at the willful ignorance of celebrities like Bennet.

Tony Bennett – Three failed marriages, years of cocaine use, and he has now gone senile….what a waste of a life.

The United States invaded a foreign country without just cause and murdered at least hundred thousand people for nothing. People like Tony Bennett are horrified by this, and if you are not then you are an evil p.o.s.

Huh. The guy who is so proud of his Eye-talian heritage that he changed his name from Di Benedetto to the more Irish sounding “Bennett”, has proven that he has the brains of neither. And that is saying something.

You Tony bashers on here are the worst kind of idiots. You have no grasp whatsoever of the history of the Middle East and no sense for realizing when you’ve been manipulated. We funded, and armed both Iraq and Iran in the 80′s, furnishing them with horrendous weapons which resulted in over a million deaths in a Sunni vs. Shiite conflict. We have played both sides against the middle and faction against faction in the region for centuries. It’s not even a new concept. Julius Caesar perfected divide and conquer in securing Gaul as part of the Roman Empire. We armed the Mujahideen which is either the Northern Alliance or Al Queda depending on whether they can be used to serve us. We armed and enlisted the help of Al Queda fighters who killed American troops in Iraq in our neo-colonialist dismantling of Libya. We are now declaring that we need UN and US boots on the ground in Libya because of “Al Queda”. WHAT?!?!?! Most of you poster have zero perspective on how destructive and destabilizng our foreign policies have been for the whole of the Middle East. We come down on the Taliban but support the Saudi Royal family. The only way you can make sense of ALL of our actions in the Middle East is to understand that it’s about OIL and HUGE DEFENSE CONTRACTS. Money basically. Most of you get caught up in the propaganda and are suckered into a bogus form of psuedo-patriotism. Blind patriotism=useful idiot.

Listen to all these mealy mouth apologists whine for Tony. Did somebody post a link from Ron Paul’s campaign site or FDL?

1. If Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, then enforcing the sanctions against Iraq had nothing to do with 19 Saudi’s (whose land we had defended from attack 10 years earlier) carrying out a mission to, in their sponsoring agency’s own words: “drive the infidel from the peninsula”. [Iraq isn't IN the peninsula].

2. To those who say we “bombed Iraq”: We destroyed SAM installations when they ‘painted’ our jets in VIOLATION OF AN ARMISTICE which Iraq signed to prevent the near total extermination of their army and government in 1991. Don’t want to get bombed? Stop ordering your military to threaten the forces you have surrendered to.

3. The sanctions were bad. Then they were good and we should have given them a chance (for another decade). Now they justify 9/11. –Every liberal knows this. Just as they know that Saddam Hussein had absolutely NOTHING to do with using the program to sell oil to France and Germany for gold toilets, while letting his people starve because it was a useful weapon to keep the people the liberals claim to care about in line.

4. I’d love to hear the long list of crimes against Muslims again. Let’s start with the 27,000 attacks by the Religion of Peace against civilians in the past 20 years. Then we can get to how protecting Saudi Arabia, stopping the Bosnian and Kosovar muslim populations from slaughter offended that dead excreted shark chum sitting at the bottom of some ocean floor. Because that was the ACTUAL reason offered for 9/11: We didn’t let Osama Bin “pooping my pants and cowering behind my woman” Laden defend Saudi Arabia from Iraq.

Senility.

A senile old fool.He left his heart in San Francisco and his brains in a dumpster somehwere

Now you guys are seeing who Tony Bennett truly is. He has been a hardcore leftist lib for years and years. I hate it when actors and singers think they can use their platform to voice kooky opinions like this. Someone should drop a dime on Mr. Bennett and tell him that the World Trade Center was bombed in 1993, and the same group responsible for that also bombed the USS Cole, Kobar Towers, the Disco in Bali, and many other locations. It has nothing to do with us bombing them. Like most liberals, he is severely misinformed because they watch MSNBC.

Tony Bennet is too stupid to understand religious fundamentalism, let alone comment on it. These idiots kill innocent civilians EVERYWHERE – including their fellow countrymen – and they do so willfully and with no remorse. These are the people Bennet feels sorry for. What a tool.

Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, War has Never Solved Anything.

I wish these entertainers would keep their extreme views to themselves.

I have loved Tony Bennett’s singing for generations, but now I can hardly listen to him…

He saw a dead German and became a pacifist. How many dead Jews did he see? How many more would there have been if we hadn’t gone to war?

I’m a conservative idiot who still can’t admit I was wrong after ten years of unrelenting revelations. I’m here to announce that I will no longer listen to somebody that I never listen to anyway. Painless boycotts are the best boycotts! Are you scared yet, Tony Bennett? My make-believe inaction will cripple your career, Commie!

I disagree with what he said and I’d go so far as to say that he’s abusing the First Amendment. If you’re going to use your freedom of speech, don’t abuse it. Say something positive and uplifting — or at least say something that doesn’t upset the applecart. If we can’t do that, we should keep our opinions to ourselves.

Lots of straight fake patriot morons on here. No of you understand history. WE CREATED AND USE AL QUEDA. Al Queda is exactly what the military industrial complex needed in a post cold war world. We knowingly let Bin Laden escape into Pakistan after we had him cornered in Tora Bora with the assistance of the Northern Alliance. Google “Airlift of Evil” if you want to see more awesome govenmental/military justice. What most of you know if the BS Jessica Lynch version of history and events. Those of us who aren’t afraid to question dig a bit deeper and find the truth see this fake patriotism as disappointing and unbearable. Again, most of you on here might feel informed because you can regurgitate a few bullet points the mainstream media fed you. You don’t know squat. You avoid challenging yourselves because your psyches are too fragile to live in a world where the paternal, soothing voice on the TV is telling you lies. It makes you an outcast at the tailgating party to bring up something that isn’t 100% pure American phony patriotism. You don’t want to be outside the group. You’re fake patriots who’ve been suckered by moneyed internationalist elites who devote endless resources to keeping you uninformed and on the same sheet of fake music.

Hey Tony – You know what you can do with that new album. Maybe it’s time to join your friend Howard Zinn this year.

King Mohorko of Slovonia, you seem inordinately interested in my sexuality. Thanks for the interest, but I’m not gay. Good luck, though, with your on-going search for love…………

Hey Ben. If we CREATED them, then they are ours to UNCREATE if we made a mistake. Now if we could only uncreate slobbering Liberals who never met a foreigner they didn’t want to do fellatio on.

How many angry posters here are Tea Baggers? What about freedom of speech and all? Or does that only apply to people who share your opinion? As for the “rape victim post” by Brett…well I suppose if the victim is drunk enough, they might have played a part in there victimization. Sort of like a country drunk with power enough to wage war the world over. We have an issue here in the states…aside from the men and women serving, not enough of us see the wars we wage first hand or their high costs. We watch it on the TV, and just get it confused with Saving Private Ryan. Tony Bennett was an infantry soldier…he’s earned the right not only to his opinion, but his right to say it.

Right on the money, Whizzer. Ever actually SAT through one of this idiot’s shows? The patter in between songs sounds like some pot head free associating back in the ’70′s. Pretty good side men, usually, though.

Mr. Bennett has a right to feel any way he wants, but he is as misguided as many elitists on the left. Comments about us bombing them before they bombed us? Really? Is he referring to Israel fighting back against Hamas terrorism? Is he talking about the Cole, the first WTC, Lebanon? Is he talking about hostages in Iran? Oh, maybe it was Clinton bombing the hell out of the christians in eastern Europe, yeah, that must be it.

Pacifism is narcissistic. He’s an entertainer. Nuff said?

Too bad Lee Marvin is gone. I’d like to hear this clown say that nonsense to Lee. They don’t make ‘em like that any more.

Done with T.B! Had seen the ad for his new cd selling at target. nope, not buying it now

Ever hear of the “Rape of Nanking”? There is and always will be evil in the world and as long as good men do nothing, evil is free to ravage and triumph. Don’t blindly accept the notion that Saddam had no WMD’s. Islam is at war with modernity and civilization in general. God Bless Israel and the USA from a German Lutheran.

The irony here is, he is buying into the idea that it was the Iraqi’s that were responsible for 9/11.

He says “we were bombing them”.
We never bombed the Taliban, or Bin Laden, or Saudi Arabia (where most of the hijackers were from) until AFTER they attacked us on 9/11.

This shows how clueless liberals are, yes, even Tony Bennett.
And nobody calls him on this.

MM – ‘He says “we were bombing them”.
We never bombed the Taliban, or Bin Laden, or Saudi Arabia (where most of the hijackers were from) until AFTER they attacked us on 9/11′

This is a classic example of lazy people debating a topic they haven’t researched ! 1998 Clinton was sending Cruise Missiles into Afghanistan FACT.

You bombed Saudia Arabia ? Dream on your tongue in so far up their arse i’m suprised the whole of congress isn’t brown .

Your like children playing chinese whispers , stop expecting the corporate media to tell you the truth you !

I think Tony lost his brain in San Francisco. Tony…..do you really expect us to believe that Bush told YOU he made a mistake in iraq?????????Come on!!! You are a traitor and should leave this country. I always loved your singing but will NEVER buy anything of yours again.

Dementia?

Tony Bennett is a great and wonderful singer but that doesn’t mean his opinion is right on everything? He is dead wrong about “Us” being the fault of the 9/11 attacks. He does have a right to his opinion, but he is wrong. For some reason when people are famous in some vocations they think they know everything, but they don’t. Sean Penn is another example, great gifted actor but totally wrong on his politics; Whoopi Goldberg is a very funny comedian but very wrong on her politics.

Gee, Tony. You were disgusted after seeing one German body. In the European part of WWII, more than 200,000 young American soldiers just like you were killed. Their ripped apart bodies must have been stacked around you like cordwood, and yet you didn’t see them. And I wonder what you saw or felt on 9/11. Apparently, not much. Stick to singing, even though you can’t hit the notes anymore. Otherwise, please keep your dumba– mouth shut.

These entertainers should stick to what they know best. No one asked him!

Well, Bennett’s comment is egregious! It’s like the Rapist is saying “She made me do it! She shouldn’t dress that way!” You CANNOT excuse the inexcusable! You hear that Bennet?

This type of remark is also similar to thatuneducated Actors naively ranting about some newly found “cause” such as “save the babies”, “feed the whales”, “a mind is a terrible thing for world peace”, or whatever.

Morons rule!

Funny that the libs all say to those that don’t agree with their warped vision “read a book” or “educate yourself”. This of course denotes that they themselves, well of course, are well-read and that is why they have arrived at their ignorant opinions. Hey goody libs, why don’t you try balancing your book reading sheep tactics and arrogant opinions with some reality? As a group you are the most disgusting anti-Americans who deserve your lot in life (likely a sad one). Hippies.

It started in 1095 when Pope Urban II ordered the first of the “Great Crusades” to kill thousands of Muslims for the sin of living. The people in that part of the world remembered. Ask Jews when they’ll forget Hitler. They won’t.
This may not be a religious war to us, but it is to them and they will not stop.

He may have sounded like he made some points, but let’s face it…..Terrorists have been around for hundreds of years. Muslims radicals were waging jihad before any of us were born, and it really all started in Biblical times with two brothers whose offspring have been fighting ever since. They would have attacked us whether we were in their countries or not, and saying otherwise is just making excuses for them.

Mr. Bennett, with all due respect (which you won’t give to the people in the country), it is time for you to retire.

To the people of this country, stop subsiding approval of terrorism in this country. Send “Hollywood” to the same unemployment lines we are standing in.”

Mr. Bennet, do you have any idea how insensitive your remark was?

I never liked Tony Bennett and now I know why.

Who are the terrorists? Well, Mr. Bennett, if you’re not a liberal, that’s a very easy question to answer. The terrorists are the ones who cut the heads off people with dull machetes. The terrorists are the ones who danced in the streets as woman and children burned to death in the towers. The terrorists are the ones who have announced they will kill or convert all non-Muslims. THAT’S a terrorist. And if you had any common sense left, it would be as obvious to you as it is to a four year old. NOW do you want to help us defend ourselves against these genocidal barbarians or do you just want to play moral equivalence games in your head while we burn?

It’s one thing to say you’re a pacifist and “war” is not your thing .. but to AT THIS PARTICULAR time, and on this PARTICULAR event, to say the U.S. caused it .. that’s just unbelievable. Mr. Bennett is entitled to his opinion, certainly, but too bad it’s so wrong. What a mistake HE HAS made. I was going to buy this album but now I won’t. And every time I see him on tv or wherever, I will think of these statements he made. There’s no fool like an old fool.

see above, Fred and then help or get the hell out of our way.

Tony Bennett is an aged entertainer. His background in war is commendable but he has no special training in the area of military intelligence. Governments get intelligence about their enemies from people who are trained in intelligence and surveillance technology, not sentimental, senile octogenarians. Sorry ABC, I am not buying. Try selling this to the more gullible.

This wife and mother won’t be buying his cd’s or for that matter….the cd of anyone who is dumb enough to record with him. Thank goodness I didn’t pre-order his most recent cd.

Note the comments of the bloodthirsty tribe … the hatred

“Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.” When were we bombing them? When did they tell us to stop? Just shut up and sing Tony or go paint a picture or something. Nobody cares what you think!

According to Fred; When the USA intervens and saves a country from invasion, for example Kuwait, we are the violent bad guys. If we stay home and do nothing we are guilty of causing the deaths of countless people, by failing to act. With people like Fred and Tony Bennett, the USA is guilty of every crime on the planet, no matter what we do. Thank goodness the USA is led by people who respond to the needs of others, and not by the likes of Prime Minister Nevaille Chamberlan who gave away Chezlovokia to the Nazis and said: “We have peace in our time”. The USA was attacked on 9/11 by extremist terrorists who attacked us before in 1994, and the USS Cole. Ignoring extremist terrorists who want to kill everyone who disagrees with them is not going to make them go away.

Mr Bennett, You are a fool in my book. You just lost a fan.

So many liberals using using 9/11 excuse for big government and wars that cripple the country. We need Ron Paul in to sort it out.

I will no longer play Tony’s music in my record shop; all your CD’s are being returned you traitor.

Ah, man, I love Tony’s music. But now he sprayed liberal stink all over himself. Why can’t these entertainment people stick to what they know best and leave politics alone?

Tony Bennet, who would have thought that Howard Stern had better moral character than you, but I just melted the one vinyl album I had from you that my dad gave to me, and I broke the CDs that I had of yours too. I don’t are if you’ve been to war. That doesn’t make you and expert in all matters of war. You’ve been scared by your experiences as many get when they can’t handle life around them. Life and death are real. Death is supposed to be a huge deterent to war, that’s why it’s an ugly thing to do and we should all see it that way. But, Muslims will kill their own to justify their beliefs.. that’s the similarity between liberals and Muslims. Eat your own and enjoy your cowardice ride to hell.

Brian– you adviously didn’t undertand my comment.. and no, WAR=FREEDOM is not a fact, if that were the case we would have no more wars. Odviously there is a problem with the equation when it is WAR=FREEDOM (temporarily).. for today, for this minute.. until the next dissagreement comes along.. now WAR=LOSS OF LIFE is a FACT.. FREEDOM has too many perspectives to be real..we’re all BORN FREE — everything else we impose on ourselves by enpowering the powers that be to take what we perceive as freedom away from us…through IGNORANCE

It’s funny that so many people are comparing Bennett with Ron Paul. They do have much in common, including being doddering old fools.

Really Mr. Bennett!!!!!! How quickly you forget why you fought in WW II:
From Bennett’s book, “The Good Life”:

“It was gratifying that the last official mission of the 255th Regiment was the liberation of the concentration camp in the town of Landsberg. It was thirty miles south of the notorious Dachau camp, on the opposite bank of the Lech River, which we were approaching. The river was treacherous and difficult to cross because there were still German soldiers protecting it, but we wouldn’t let anyone stop us from freeing those prisoners. Many writers have recorded what it was like in the concentration camps much more eloquently than I ever could, so I won’t even try to describe it. Just let me say I’ll never forget the desperate faces and empty stares of the prisoners as they wandered aimlessly around the campgrounds. Once we took possession of the camp, we immediately got food and water to the survivors, but they had been brutalized for so long that at first they couldn’t believe that we were there to help them and not to kill them. Many of the survivors were barely able to stand. To our horror we discovered that all of the women and children had been killed long before our arrival and that just the day before, half of the remaining survivors had been shot … The whole thing was beyond comprehension. After seeing such horrors with my very eyes, it angers me that some people insist there were no concentration camps.”

You Mr. Bennett are no better than the terrorists of 9/11. Apparently you not only left your heart in San Francisco, sounds like you threw it over the bridge!!!! You are really nothing but a washed up, drug induced traitor and your songs should be banned from the radio!

Tonester, your wig is on too tight.

Apologizing for America doesn’t cut it. Obama tried it don’t work. Thanks for your service Tony, but your beliefs…no thanks. What a lefty goob.

People who believe “war makes us free” seem to forget that it’s NOT war, but the CONSTITUTION which reaffirms our God-Given freedom.

Having said that… The wars America is currently engaged in do not in ANY WAY preserve nor protect the Constitution. The “war on terror” has done nothing but strip Americans of their Constitutional rights. And any soldier with the audacity to tell you he’s “protecting your freedom” is not only a liar, but quite possibly mentally retarded.

If you’re going to go off and kill people, you might as well KNOW why you’re doing it…. And it ain’t for the Constitution… So don’t feed us that BS.

You want to find an enemy of the Constitution? Look toward Washington. I wish our soldiers would fight THAT enemy.

A liberal Democrat is a liberal Democrat.

I won’t condem Tony…but the older you get the Kookier you can be. Suppose we didn’t fight the Nazis we would be speaking german today. I don’t know of any bombing we did except to known terriorrst camps pior to 911 so Tony you are wrong about that. But like I said respect your elders no matter how sinile they are.

Mr. Bennett can now be added to those who are using “the battered Citizen syndrome” same as, only covers a wider range of victims, “the battered spouse syndrome.” to cow Americans into believing that anything any crazy or demented tyrant wants to do to us is justified because everything these crazies do is all our fault. If we had just treated them better, gave them more money, tried harder, had’t forced them to do it, these crazies wouydln’t have been forced to to whatever horrific attrocity they have done, and the world would be a peaceful and serene Utopia. American’s now cower like frighten women, willing to accept any punishment inflicted on them as their just due because they have been convinced they are evil, inept, mean, stingy, and not worthy of kindness or acceptance.. Our kids are being taught this in our public schools. Wake up America. bullies will push you as far as you are willing to back up. Reagan had it right…Peace through strength. Strength is all the world’s bullies understand.

tony i think your toupee is on a little too tight. you are an old fart and you need to keep your mouth shut. if you want to take the blame for it then go ahead, but don’t include the rest of the country in your stupid old man ramblings.

You people are delusional. The US hasn’t killed innocent women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan? Sure but it was “accidental”. Do you think that makes their families feel any better than the families of 9/11? Would you want to retaliate if another country was here in the US searching for terrorist and “accidentally” killed your family? You sure as hell would. Quit being so sanctimonious. We are all human.

I’m not so sure Tony Bennett knows what day of the week it is. Poor old guy probably needs help getting dressed in the morning….don’t take him too seriously.

anyone that heard the interview could tell this guy is no longer playing w/a full deck. he repeated the same line about 5 times in 3 minutes. he sounded confused the entire time. he also said the only solution to achieve peace was to melt every gun in the world. it’s obvious senility has set in. whoever manages him needs to say no more interviews. i’m sure he thinks the US caused WW2 as well. nonetheless, i will never buy or support anything with his name on it.

I was wondering why the media was making him sound like he was good and popular. Its because hes a limp old liberal who has lived too long. I hope when people want to fly planes into buildings they seriously consider rich pukes houses in their little gated communities. Or maybe he’ll get killed by one of his new buddies.

Tony is incorrect about the Muslim terrorists attacking on 9-11 BECAUSE we were bombing them, AS, in fact, the attackers were mostly Saudis citizens, who the US Military were defending in Gulf War I, and certainly not bombing.

The reasoning of the attackers was based on the fact that we had troops in the Arabian Peninsula, which is their Holy Land.

We elected the people who caused 9/11. Then we go and “fight” innocent people and expect no repercussions?

Jeremiah Wright was correct…. And I’m a conservative.

Ignorance knows no bounds…

From the movie Get Smart:

“Too bad about all the dead movie stars.”
“Yes. What will we do without their razor-sharp political advice.”

America needs to wake up and realize that Tony Bennett is absolutely right with his ascertations. And it’s not just him that is saying this. The mainstream media does not report on it and generally keeps the attitude that America and its policies are infallable. Howevever, read our own Department of Defense documents, CIA reports, and listen to Michael Schuyer, former head of the Bin Laden unit at the CIA, and you’ll find out that our Middle Eastern policies inflame anti-US sentiment and encourages recruitment for radical Islam.

We need to grow up and realize our “anti-terror” policies make us less safe and fuel the exact thing they seek to control. Read the book “Blowback,” a term coined by our own CIA, and listen to Ron Paul. Don’t write people off like Tony as kooks because I use to and now, I realize, my old opinions were very, very wrong.

I’m posting this again because it’s important. Thanks Ben… Someone has to show these useful idiots the light:

“Seriously, people are likening Tony’s statement that we caused 9/11 to rape and Pearl Harbor. It’s tough to know where to start with broken logic like that. If the Japanese had attacked us after prolonged economic warfare which had crippled their economy as well as us having bombed them for years, then your weak analogy would be spot on. The weird form of patriotism I see coming from those bashing Tony Bennett would have made our founding fathers, well, probably only minorly annoyed and disappointed. They were used to provincial thought and realized that most people didn’t have the internal resources to handle large concepts with any critical reasoning. You Tony bashers on here are amazed and upset but sat on your hands when it became overwhelmingly evident that there were no WMD’s and the media, from which you derive all of your skewed opinions, lied systematically at the behest of our government. Another trap you small minded people fall into is blaming things on partisan politics. It’s like your routing for your team and the other team “totally sucks bro”. Bush was a liar and Obama is a big fat liar too. You get mad at Tony Bennett because it’s easy and doesn’t challenge you in any way. You don’t get mad at media and government when you get lied to and hundreds of thousand of people die. You fake patriots will have the country you deserve. Change it and yourself. Get educated.”

While it’s too bad the fighters were ordered to “stand down” in 2001 allowing that needed crisis to happen – why is it that planeloads of trillion-dollar entitlements are always welcome??

“the 85-year-old singer dodged questions about his sex life and prior drug use”…. LOL.. don’t want to talk about the “STUPID” and “Low-Life” crap you did in your life, BRING UP something that will take everyone’s mind off of you.

To inoculate such an outrageous statement by pointing out his service in WWII is an attempt to elevate himself so that he can get away with saying such an idiotic thing. Yes, thank you for your service Mr. Bennett, but now shut your pie hole and let the young men of today be honored just the way you were without having to wonder if they are doing the right thing. Maybe they did attack use partly because we were bombing them, but the truth is that they really hate use because we are nonbelievers- THEY ARE FANATICS WHO MUST BE DEALT WITH HARSHLY. They hate use not only because of what we do, but also because of who we are. We can leave there tomorrow and they will still attack us. I wonder how they would feel if the FANATICS orchestrated an attack on one of there fat headed, self aggrandizing events. Rest assured, heads would roll. Mr. Stern should have asked him for alternatives in handling the war on terror. I would love to hear that response not only from Mr. Bennett, but all the other Holly Wood nut jobs who constantly bombard our society and children with their distorted, liberal agenda that has worked out so well for our now morally bankrupt society. I may not like what you say Mr. Bennett, and will will even ask you to shut up, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it. Just because you can sing does not mean you can think! So, Mr. Bennett, go sing a song and then STFU

Tony needs a rest. A long one.

“I understand how he feels but how could we have stopped Hitler without going to war and all the other crazies?”

Did you ever stop to think that maybe it wasn’t Americas JOB to stop Hitler?

Did you know that the Constitution says our military is supposed to DEFEND THE HOMELAND?

Did you know the founders of America warned us to stay OUT of entangling alliances and foreign affairs? That means we shouldn’t be in the U.N. It means we shouldn’t be part of NATO. It means, “We mind our business and others should mind theirs.”

What Hitler did was horrible… But it’s simply not our job to police the world.

As long as America is trying to police the world, you should EXPECT fear. You should EXPECT terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. You should EXPECT the world to hate us.

And if there is peace for any amount of time, EXPECT our government to carry out another fake attack in order to divide, conquer and start more wars.

why does it matter what he thinks? why does it matter what Barbra Streisand thinks?? Why does it matter what Don Henley thinks?? Why does it matter what Whoopi Goldberg thinks?? Left or Right, why do we give any weight to what some celebrity thinks?? Like someone shouted at Henley once, “Shut up and sing!”

hAAA, Either Bennett wig is to tight and squeezing his brain or senility has set in. He is a fool and a phoney. He was never a good singer, just a copycat off the best singers of his time. His time has been long gone and someone forgot to tell him.
He is just trying to hang on to his occupation long past his time and does so by pleasing Hollywood commies.
Get lost Tony and have the decency to keep your big mouth shut and appreciate the country who made you rich. Go back to Italy.

I use to teach my kids as my father taught me that “no one can make you do anything you don’t want to do”. The same principle still applies here. Evil just is ! Nothing you do or say will change that. You can’t coerce evil to do good. Tony has been duped to believe that you can manipulate evil. If you try to manipulate it, it ends up manipulating you.

Most Americans have a dismal knowledge of history. I wonder, if China had bases in America, supported a despotic regime and bombed people all over America, would we not fight back? Would we not take the fight to them? And would we not be called terrorists for doing so? It’s time to make a stand and at least acknowledge that our foreign policy in the middle east led to 9/11. Stop being cowards and admit it and then we can move on towards a more secure future with a strong DEFENSIVE nation not OFFENSIVE.

I do support those who put their lives on the line everyday to preserve my freedom —- I think he does also and many more of us do, we just do not agree with interfering all over the world and bombing innocent people because we feel we need to free them, give them democracy (ours is not working well is it?) and tell them how to get their fiscal house in order….

Don’t buy the guys music!!!! Period!!

Guess what many military people thought the invasion of Iraq was a bad bad idea. Bush Sr. at least had the brains to stop when he did push Sadam back into his country. Sadam was not involved with Al Queda. It was after his death that Al Queda got a hold in Iraq, and now we have Iran in there also. Iran hated Sadam. So much for all our good intentions or whatever the agenda was. Lots of people lost their family members over there and lots had to leave. They had nothing to do with the bombing but paid a high price. Ten years later there still is no real democracy there. But lots of contractors.

Tony’s remarks were very foolish, Ignorant and dangerous. We are not all terrorists; the radical Muslims that supported the murder of 3000 innocent Americans on 911 (and the Palestinians that were celebrating it and dancing in the streets…less we forget) are! Do not think for a second that these very same Muslim terrorists wouldn’t hesitate to cut Tony Bennet’s throat or any of the throats of you foolish, blind, brainwashed liberals seeped in the propaganda of moral relativism and social justice.
“The first time I saw a dead German, that’s when I became a pacifist,” he said. – Too bad Tony didn’t see some of slaughtered Jews, Gypsies and Gays in the concentration camps or a bombed out, enslaved, NAZI dominated Europe while he was over there picking daisies. By the way Tony; Eichmann was one of those NAZIS, not the people that were murdered in the Trade Towers on 911. Thank God we were victorious in WWII and destroyed the evil NAZI empire’s ambition of total world domination. Hmmm… couldn’t draw any parallels to radical Islam’s anti- Jew/Christian world caliphate ambitions now, could we?
It is quite obvious that Tony cannot recognize evil, even when he looks it in the face.
Tony should stick to singing instead of ending his career like the Dixie Chicks. Put foot in mouth and lose half your fan base.

Bin Laden also said the WEST would go down in financial ruin, that was his goal. Never said he would invade us and take over. Seems we are on a financial ruin path…

He may be able to sing but his reasoning powers are totally gone………………..

I admire Tony Bennett for his service to our country and have enjoyed his music. Mr. Bennett might want to consider the carefully crafted words of another singer responding to a reporter about political issues and war. When questioned about Viet Nam and its protesters during a 1972 press conference, Elvis Presley responded, “Honey I just tend to keep my own personal views about that to myself, because I’m just an entertainer, and I’d rather not say.” There is no doubt he had an opinion and the right to express it, but knew intuitively that people turn to entertainers for entertainment and not political observations – right or left. Laura Ingraham coined a phrase, that respectfully, Mr. Bennett should hear: “Shut up and sing.”

911, after all was allowed at the very least by our grand government. Building 7 free fell although it was never hit by a plane and only had minumal fire damage. Explosions were recorded and many eye witnesses heard explosions just before it FREEfell. first time in HISTORY a steel building fell from a FIRE. Do your own research. Also look at the hole in the pentagon. It does not match that of an airliner and no holes for the wings or large engines. Wake up people… Don’t get mad, do some research yourself and then comment.

Let’s see, we have Hamas and Hezbollah, just to name two of the most well known muslim organizations whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel. They call Israel the “Little Satan” and the U.S.A. the “Big Satan” and have stated their desire for our destruction as well. There is no reasoning with these types and they along with other radical militant groups have a huge influence over the muslim people and their governments. Saudi Arabia has been spending millions of dollars on building mosques around the world that teach wahhabism which insists on a literal interpretation of the Koran. This is a showdown that has been culminating for centuries and can only result in violence. The USA has the right to protect its people and interests and if this results in war, so be it. This fight is not just between the USA and radical islam, but between the free world and radical Islam. Because of the USA’s prosperity and influence we are the target of choice for these radicals. Have no doubt regardless of our country’s actions we would be in the radical Islamist’s crosshairs.

Since when do you listen to terrorists who claim we bombed them first? How do they figure that? That’s nonsense. It’s their stupid excuse for what they do. Why on Earth would you believe them? I agree that war is terrible and to be avoided at all costs. I also agree that it was a huge mistake for us to invade Iraq on many levels. First, it made us morally wrong to raise arms against another country, to make the first strike. And second, Iraq was a secular society, not a religious one and it was not a place for rerligious terrorists until we removed its government. However bad Saddam Husein was, his country kept Iran in check until we took him out. Now we suffer the consequences of that mistake.

But that doesn’t equate with the claim that WE bombed the terrorists first. We didn’t. They started it and we were goaded into some bad choices but we didn’t start it. They did.

Posted by: ConcernedGeorgian | September 20, 2011, 12:51 pm – All Tony was saying is that war is horrible and it turned him into a pacifist. Are you really that blind to not read that? Do you eat cereal from a hollowed-out human skull? Or sit on a throne of skeletal remains?!? Why are people so hell-bent on bashing him for his opinion? He’s only saying what the military already knows; the attack stemmed from past dealings AND WHO’S TO SAY THE U.S. ALWAYS KEEPS THEIR HANDS CLEAN?!? Your all dellusional if you believe that we had an absolutely clean moral slate.

Building WTC 7 was hit by the two towers that fell idiots. That is why is caught on fire and collapsed. You have to be a total idiot to think that that building was blown up by Bush and others.

@ FRED: Prove it genius, the 9/11 Commission couldn’t, didn’t even mention it until some brought up later that they didn’t even give it a mention in their first report. The only idiot here is people like you that will believe what ever is show on the idiot box day by day instead of researching for yourself. A bunch of supposed cave dwelling rock throwers, their leader trained by our CIA, and they planned flying 4 so called planes into buildings, on the 1 day our entire military was having a war games pretending that jumbo jets were being hijacked and flow into buildings and offered no response, along with people using cell phones to call home when every one knows that cell phones DON’T work at 35,000 Feet in the air, but oh no, they all had time to use theirs. Tony Bennett is an American hater, to claim it was the fault of those killed that caused this in the first place. I won’t say he ought to be ashamed, but I will say I will tell everyone I know to have nothing to do with this America hater.

“How, then, do we slash the risk of future blowback? Simple. Adopt the foreign policy recommended to us by the Founders: which is to mind our own business and keep out of other nation’s affairs, but to engage in open commerce with all who are desirous of it.” What you’re saying (essentially isolationism) sounds well and good but the world has changed since Washington’s day. In the late 18th century wars were fought by “armies” of several thousand men at a time on open battlefields, the New World was isolated from the rest of the world by oceans that took weeks to cross, and most of the country was essentially self-sufficient with room and opportunity to grow. None of that is true anymore, and the isolationism of this country in the 1920s and 1930s brought not just the US but the entire world nearly to disaster. The charter of UN itself states that it exists because its mission was to “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind”. That it has proven to be a largely impotent body is irrelevant. The point is that it is impossible to ignore what is happening in the rest of the world because everything is now connected, by economic interests if nothing else. As Tolkien put it so well, “you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it (the world) out.”

And for those who claim all Tony was saying was that WAR is bad and whitewashing the man’s words to better your ridiculous views that to say that those who were in those buildings, planes etc were somehow at fault for what happened to them, you out you need to pull your heads out of your liberal college professors culos and wake up that its not in human nature to just get along, in fact its the opposite. Tony said verbatim ‘They Flew the Plane in, But We Caused It’, that ‘We were bombing them, and they told us to stop’. Well, he just said, that you liberal idiots, you conservative doofuses, and every one in between, that WE ARE THE REASON THAT 9/11 happened, that WE CAUSED IT’ We, you, me and the rest of American killed those people, flew those planes, that WE DESERVED THIS because WE CAUSED IT’ So if you agree with what he said, then by all means go ahead and keep twisting and down playing the man’s words, your a cop killer, a fireman killer, a soldier killer, a civilian killer, your a terrorist and the world should deal with you accordingly. I have seen some lame arse excused in my day but you word twisters take the cake. Its your fault America will be gone soon, because you won’t see the forest through the trees.

Mr. Bennett and all the silly liberals out there, did you forget that the US Military saved the Kuwaiti people from Sadam Hussein, then just 2 years later Islamist bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.
Were you aware that the US Military help the Arabs and Muslims in Bosnia. And well before that the US helped the Taliban against a common foe the Soviets..and this is the thanks we get. We didnt’ bomb any innocent civilians over there Tony Bennett, a tired old fool. Very sad because he’s such a wonderful singer and WWII Vet.

Nothing can justify the murder of 3,000 innocent people. While those actions are not justified, there are reasons. The rift in the mid-eastern religions started in the time of Abraham. A revival of hatred occured in 1095 when Pope Urban II ordered the First Crusade to capture Jerusalem which had not been under Christian domination for over 400 years. .
American de facto emperialism has created enemies around the world. Including in the mid-east.

The mid-eastern religions will never get along. Too much blood has been shed for too long. The hatred is too strong. We will continue to fight Islamic extremists. We can and should end our emperialist presence around the world. We don’t need military in every nook on the globe. We don’t need it, we can’t afford it and people in other countries don’t want us there.

We should bring all of our troops home and let other countries destroy each other at will.

I’m done with you Tony. CD’s in the trash, you are a disgrace!

It’s pretty simple guys: 9/11 happened because we had a heavy military involvement in the Middle East because we want/depend on their oil. Some religious extremists did not like this, so they attacked us.

Is it right? no, but it’s the truth. 9/11 was not an unprovoked attack. Two wrongs do not make a right.

Cut us a break, “oonogil”, you expect anyone to believe that conspiratorial screed?

If there was “ethnic cleansing” of “Palestine” (the name being a Roman invention to the region, to deny any reference to the former province of Judea), why has their population growth outpaced the rest of the world by such a large margin??

The upper hand has been held by the Arab world, and by no small margin. Napoleon occupied Egypt for 17 years. The Brits 25. The Ottoman Turks occupied Greece for over 300+ years. Muslims occupied Sicily, parts of Spain, and chunks of the Balklands for 400+ years.

The only thing missing from your hissy fit was any semblence of FACT. Like the FACT that the Muslim world receives 5X the military and economic aid as Israel.

My bet would be that you have a dog-eared copy of “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” (your argument parrots it, to a “T”), and probably think the Holocaust never happened.

Just sayin.

Hey, if you can’t defend a people and ideology that killed thousands of innocent people for the goal of extreme religious views… what’s next?

Next you’ll tell me that saying Hitler is a good guy who didn’t go far enough is bad too, right?

See, you’re evil for not accepting that terrorists, murders, and thugs are people too and need kindness and compassion.

Tony gets it, that’s why he’ll side with the terrorists killing civilians over the civilians… because nobody else will. I bet he’ll even stand up for the rights of white supremacists to lynch and kill people for their beliefs… or would the be going too far?

Why not? Will he only support certain types of psychotic killers over their victims now?

Thank you, Tony Bennett!
Our country i s going bankrupt policing countries halfway around the world. This is just what our enemies want. Once we are bankrupt, then they’ll move in. Actually, the taking over of Amerika has started a while ago. It’s only a matter of time before other countries like China and Mexico take complete control. Then, watch out! You think you love war? You’ll have to deal with dictatorship. We will lose our freedoms bankrupting ourselves in wars!
And speaking of terrorism, how about cleaning our streets of terrorists? They’re all over…even in the formerly most peaceful of towns and school environs!

Right, searamber, there are no call outs as people opposed to Bennets views as being “uneducated fake patriots” who “have no critical reasoning or independent thought to develop any kind of perspective on the world outside your doorstep and TV”.

Your own seeming inability to accept an opine outside of yours aside….

We may disagree, but “hate” is too strong a word, unless you are trying to score some type of political point.

I no more hate you than you hate an unborn fetus, or someone opposed to gay marriage “hates” gays.

maybe the nuts attacked us on 9/11 because we have troops in there holy lands,,, not because we are non believers,,, if it was because we are non believers then how come they don’t attack china,,, china has 1.3 billion non believers,,,,

Most people equate “we caused it” to “we deserved it”. That is the problem with the reasoning of people jumping on the anti-Tony bandwagon. Mr. Bennett never said the terrorists were justified or had the right to do the hanus thing that they did. Quite the opposite. He was merely stating the motive behind their senseless radical actions.

Too many ignorant people think these monsters did 9/11 because they hate our freedoms and our way of life. That couldn’t be further from the truth. We have been meddling in other countries affairs way before 9/11 and have been getting what the CIA calls “blowback” ever since.

Blowback is the espionage term for the violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government. To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as “random” acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are ignorant of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.

To put it the simplest way (and bear with me), It’s like if you were in your brothers apartment going through his stuff. He wants you out but you’re bigger than him and tell him too bad. He then gets a knife and stabs both your parents in the face. What he did was a hanus, extreme reaction and he should be punished, but just maybe the whole crisis could have been avoided if you stayed the hell away from that psycho brother of yours.

WOW. it is incredible that people still believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11
and what is worst the media makes it sound like it did and do not have the guts to call it like it is
there are not astounding remarks what Mr Bennett said like the “reporter” said it is the cold hard true
but when someone says something we do not like then he/she is anti American the man is exercising his wright to speak freely and if you don like it than maybe you do not belong in this part of the world.there is nothing wrong with telling the true.

So, Tony Bennett actually said, we should have just let the Nazis win because he felt bad about killing them. Okay, makes sense to me.

It’s 5:17 p.m. Central Time, I have read ALL the comments….pure hatred….Mr. Bennett, many millions of Americans applaud YOU for your integrity, service, and courage in speaking about this topic I have met Mr. Bush before he ran for Governor, way before he became President. I believe you, that he would share that with you. He would be less than human not to have the thoughts that led to his comment to you. This country has been high-jacked and it’s wealth of humans, industry, innovation, and treasury has been used to commit thousands of attacks/atrocities in all of our names….Are we really a country that just INVADES other countries at whim/will/wish? The saddest thing of all is these invasions take money; money which we have borrowed, and we have paid for in the highest price which is the killing of our troops, yet MANY millions of uneducated citizenry think they can practice arm-chair patriotism and stay ignorant, and dumb over what our country has done in the name of fighting terrorism. If one cannot keep an open mind, and one cannot continue to educate themselves, then we are no longer free. The problem is, the net has been cast, and America as we knew it, as it was founded, exists NO MORE…and yet, these untold arm-chair patriots do not even realize it….that is their ignorance. Well, heed the warnings….watch the Federal Reserve and our own government take us to debts despair, watch our citizens lose more jobs, more homes, more rights; watch our country continue to be flooded with immigrants, illegal and legal which compete for the vanishing jobs; watch your taxes rise, your benefits decrease, your freedoms restricted further, watch our trade policies/plans/agreements continue to punish the citizens at the expense of the global corporations and handlers; watch your elected leaders continue to sell/legislate you down the drain; and tell yourselves that you are right and Tony Bennett and millions of others that believe like him are wrong….well, keep doing that, and one day the lights are going to go out on your home (if you still have one), and the gas isn’t going to pump at the station, and you won’t be able to get the money out of your bank, and there won’t be any food in your grocery stores, and there will not be an answer when you call 911….all because you closed your minds and refused to listen to anyone that didn’t think like you…..911 was an affront on this country and if you can’t even investigate it, and try to educate yourselves, then you do no honor to the 3,000+ victims and you do no honor to yourselves and you are not really a patriot. So, try not to bash, Tony….look at your own self and inquire into your own simple-minded motives for staying ignorant….those motives will not protect you when T-S-H-T-F….Rumsfeld has been documented saying he was going after Iraq the DAY OF 911….now tell me, how did he know or not know Iraq had anything to do w/911 that morning? He didn’t, he was executing to plan. (Our government WANTED Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Libya and who knows what other country. This is ALSO documented fact.) Rumsfeld’s comment is one simple verifiable truth that should cause all of you haters to look within….once you start, you won’t stop, and if YOU don’t stop, the country will be regained, but as long as you stay on the sidelines, sitting in the armchair, you are NOT a patriot…

We caused 911? Not only will I not buy this idiot’s current album, I am burning the few old albums of his that I have.

Now I know why Bennett didn’t want to talk about previous drug use. It must have been substantial! The brain is gone.

I believe Tony Bennett’s comment about what George W. Bush said to him. Thank you Tony for telling the truth.

Why in the world he talking to Howard Stern in the first place. Is it cause birds of feather flock together?
Everyone sing: “I left my mind in San Francisco”

Tony is RIGHT! If you punch me, I will punch you back. If you kill me, I will expect my nation 9/11 was a re-action not an action!

Bennet is your typical Liberal looney-tune. He clearly has no clue about what he is talking about. It is true that the US metals where they have no business and need to stay home and secure our own border to keep illegals from climbing the fences. We support middle east countries, such as Egypt Lebonnon, and other besides Israel and those Muslim countires behead our people and hate us. We need to stop supporting the counties that are filled with hate. Let them fend for themselves and see how well they can do on their own.

Did you know that Rick Perry is a Bilderberger?

Interesting thing is I dreamed about this, and do agree with him, did not know who it was till today. Yes God showed me this in a dream. I do have to let Tony know that God does hear him. I do also agree with George Bush’s comments. I never thought it was ok to retaliate. Let the Lord God take vengance, “Vengance is mine Sayeth the Lord”.
Might be Good Job faithful warrior.

“I will buy your CD.” – Mildred Eselin

Mildred, you’re one in a million!

: o )

How many critics of Tony Bennett’s speech have seen the horror of war. I am hurt that our young soldiers had to kill civilians, including women and children, as the administration 2001-2008 gave orders from thousands of miles away.

Mr. Bennett – find a country, any country, that suits your way of thinking, and then GO! From the beginning of time there have been wars and that isn’t going to stop simply because people don’t like seeing death. I certainly don’t want to kill someone but believe me, if a murderer sets his sites on my family, I’m going to do what I have to do to protect them. A country that is under attack, such as what we were on 9/11 and at Pearl Harbor, etc., etc., it is the responsibility of that government to use whatever means they have (i.e. military) to protect its citizens! It is with great concern that I will say this administration, specifically obamo, has increasingly become the agressor in the Middle East! Since Congress won’t hold obama to the law — the American people will need to kick him out of office to stop the insanity!

We are doomed. If you ignorant Azzed Chairborne raiders, that get so offended because someone basis his opinion on logic, and not your effeminate emotional squeals, and screeches to Nationalism.
We shall windup “homeless on the continent our forefathers conquered” I am sure you all get down on your knees every night, and pray to the great god of government, you worthless pukes. Certainly if we are in this great crusade. The least you could do is enlist, but you are all too chickensht for that.
So when your boy comes home in a pine box, or your daughter mangled, and denied benefits by that same government you worship, and who’s lies you bought hook, line, and sinker. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Mr. Bennett you are a true American hero. Most of these fools on here don’t deserve you. The rest of you are the Nazi monsters, you say you so despise.

Obviously his heart isn’t the only thing Tony left in San Francisco. He left his brain as well. But then again, that is typical for those living in the liberal Mecca of San Francisco.

American Hero, Tony Bennett, THANK YOU!!!! Can’t wait to buy your cd!!!

I think many people are confusing points by both Bennet and other posters. His specific point was in the context of Iraq, and that war not Afghanistan, where the Taliban was sheltering al Queda. Iraq was really started over hostilities of a personal nature between elder Sr Bush and Saddam Hussein, no need for details there as it is impossible to prove on both sides of that situation. Let us recall that Bush Sr. took many actions against leaders of foreign nations during his presidency that violated United Nation treaties and agreements. Noriega for instance has been tied directly to drug sales and shipments to US via Bush and hence caused deaths here in US for users, He might have faced international charges if not a US president and certainly would have faced charges in US if not protected by special laws that defend the office of the presidency. Please note there has never been any president of the US ever placed in Jail.
When the US elected the son of Bush to the presidency it was as if all the people that had been stabbed in the back by Sr Bush were stabbed again, but the average US citizen does not know and never will know all that stands between the Bush family and other rulers of other nations of the world.There were attempts against Bush Sr’ s life by assassins, but what stands between that family and other nations of the world does not justify any attacks against other private enterprises or persons such as the trade towers The Trade Towers were not a military target and they were also not owned by the Bushes. Any attack against innocent people en mass such as at trade towers was cowardice, and senseless. ANY RELIGION would condemn such an attack.
Our retribution against Afghanistan for harboring AlQueda has legal standing in the international courts however the attack against Irag was marred by personal family relations between Bushes and Iraqis and hence is very questionable. Our continued attempts at rebuilding both nations while bombings continue there from terrorists is absurd and financially destroying our own nation. Afghanistan has known no other way of making money than through warfare and opium for the last century, this should be taken into consideration before any continued actions by the US are made. Afghanistan has no real worth, if we gave it to Russia we would be better off, but if Russia was wise , they would decline the offer.

Here’s a guy that was a ham and egger his whole career , but managed to out live the real talent, Sammy Davis, Dean Martin , Frank Sinatra ,the list goes on. Famous for one song, with a voice like someone dragging a rake across a curb. And we are suppose to believe this dinosaur that President Bush confided in him???? What exactly was he implying ? Because to this proud American his words are treasonous in a time of war and a smack in the face to those who died and continue to die as a result of that terrorist attack.Not to mention our Brave Men and women in
the Military that fight for the freedom of others ,a civilization of highly motivated loosely disciplined
people who have been fighting amongst themselves since the beginning of time. And even with the deck stacked against them they have made tremendous strides towards the freedom cries of the oppressed . Sadam the butcher and his sons..was a either “deal with them now or deal with them later” situation and President Bush started the job! And President Obama finished it! This time Tony you let your alligator mouth run away with your hummingbird ass. I wish you all that you deserve for your lack of Patriotism.

Perhaps tony saw and read the video and written testimony that the attackers left for the world to know their reasons. The reasons the attackers gave was specifically US militarism on their land and soil and destructive involvement in their governments and the killing of their innocent brothers and sisters by the hands of the US. It is that simple.

His wig is on too tight and that is what is causing his stupid remarks.

But it was cool to bomb Serbia, Bosnia, & now Libya? This is all bull#%$!!!

Somebody might try to remind this poor old guy that 9/11 was the second attack on the WTC. And that before 9/11 we pretty much spent a decade of non-response to attacks on embassies, facilities, and personnel. A pacifist approach was essentially in place and failed.

Pity that Tony had to put his foot in his mouth like that. Thank you for your service Mr. Bennett… But you are wrong. We in America helped to liberate the Afghanis from the Russian occupation of the 1980s. What did we get for thanks? 3000+ of our people killed by one Saudi millionaire with a perceived axe to grind. Sorry Tony, but I will not be buying any more of your music, and I will be avoiding this Friday’s season opener of “Blue Bloods” just because you are performing on it.

SO WHAT’S YOUR POINT, KEVIN? Don’t get involved in foreign wars if you don’t want to get caught in the blowback, or don’t talk about blowback if you want to sell records to ranting crazy people?

Tony,Thanks for having the guts to express your opinions on the Howard Stern program. In America’s current climate of mindless jingoism your words are refreshing. Our countries policies past and current are directly responsible for the hatred many Muslims feel toward us. After reading many of the comments on this site regarding what you said, it only reinforces my view that that America has become a nation of uninformed, moronic cowards. Good job Tony!

MR. BENNETT—-I RESPECT YOU—-I do hope you begin to listen to Dr. RON PAUL, because HE is the ONLY real candidate we can trust, the ONLY real candidate who really cares about the PEOPLE of America, and the ONLY one who will bring our troops home. That’s worth something, right? Obama never did. We cannot trust him because he has been bought by the Economic Elite and the most powerful world-controlling powermongers of the world.

RON PAUL wants a chance to show ALL PEOPLE what has happened in the USA since 1913, and how the Federal Reserve has stolen vast amounts of money over the last 10 decades, and how all the money printing has corrupted BOTH PARTIES. RON PAUL doesn’t take from big lobbyists. They walk right past his office.

RON PAUL wants to be the EDUCATOR, so that the masses will have the freedom, once they understand what has happened, to vote in office men of integrity, men & women of character.

He wants this chance to help Americans change things for the better, and to put an end to the corruption in our government.

To all the idiots and braindead robots out there, READ HISTORY, The U.S. has been bombing the middle east for decades, and you don’t expect them to do anything in retaliation???
9/11 happened because of our failed foreign policy. Bomb a country, install a puppet pro american dictator and call it democracy..
I love America but we have been getting involved in other country’s internal affairs for decades, who made us responsible for anything and everything that happens anywhere in the world???
Get real, you can go bullying the world forever without someone eventually lashing out against you. If you still think America is “the greatest country in the world” you need to put a few stamps on your passport, travel outside of the U.S. and see the real world.
IGNORANT FOOLS..

I for one applaud Mr. Bennett for speaking the truth.

Tony bennett is right on this one. We, the United States are the root cause for terrorism against us. Look at it this way:
If an uninvited neighbor from across town came into your yard and started to mess with your kids what would you do? You would want them to leave. They would be the wealthiest people around and have a New Jersey attitude. Always sticking their nose in your business. They brought their dogs along just to crap on your lawn but you tolerated it. You don’t like their culture and don’t like them preaching their “born again” christian idiologies but you like their free handouts, but you still want to be left alone.
Then one day you asked them to leave and they didn’t. They messed up your lawn, drove over your plants, invited themselves inside and raided your refrigerator and still wouldn’t leave. So your kids went over to their house without your permission and set fire to it so they would leave you alone. Now they think they own you.
This is how they feel. The answer is to just leave. Pick up your crap and leave. Don’t come back, just leave. The US has been doing this for years to everybody. Look, if we’re not invited, don’t go to the party!

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

He’s known for his voice, not his intellect. In fact, I was born and raised in Brooklyn and had met several people in show business *Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, and more), and Bennett, specifically, was known to be a “dumb w–” expletive deleted.
Pacifist, nonsense; he’s not well read and he’s stupid. In the realm of religious tyranny, with a people who’ve killed 270 million over 1400 years, and are still waging jihad wars (17,000 since 9/11), does he realize what pacifism will do to the rest of the world? We would now have a caliphate established in NYC’s ground zero. Fame does not bring wisdom automatically.
Thomas Jefferson said: “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.” –and that’s wisdom!

So seeing dead Americans didn’t bother him, but dead Germans did. F the idiot

To call someone a traitor for expressing their opinion goes against everything this nation was founded on. So all you people out there calling Tony a traitor, you need to read the 1st amendment of the US Constitution.

Tony & Howard need to be parachuted into the nearest terrorist compound at their expense. America doesn’t need to hear from either of them anymore as vulgarity of any type is not good for America.

Spare me the apologist psycho babble mumbo jumbo. If there is a disconnect between two entities there are ways to engage and resolve. But not when total conquest is the only “compromise.”

That’s like saying we asked for the Japanese to bomb Perl Harbor. H.S.!

We (USA) was bombing the terrorists before 9-11 and were told/asked to stop?

we never found wmd’s and that was the excuse for attacking iraq, as for the war on terror the battle began a long time back when they bombed the marine barracks.in lebanon.they snuck up on us, sucker punched us, and ran like the pussies that they are. when we retaliated we made it clear we were coming no sneaky knife in their asses, shock and awe and they knew we were coming. hussein was a tyrant that ruled a nation by keeping it in fear of it’s own government with cruelty, torture, and genocide, this was evidenced my the discovery of a multitude of mass graves. he was a rabid animal that had to be stopped and, as long as he ruled, iraq was a potential haven for terrorists, i say good job mr bush, no shame in your game! the key to being an agressive, skilled combatant is an intense hatred for the enemy, ask howard stern if he could have gunned down any nazis i am sure even two generations after the fact he carries enough hatred that he could have. as for bin laden and his following ask any american that had a tv back in 2001 and could see our twin towers crumbling around 3000+ innocent souls in our back yard if they could witness the death of a taliban at their own hand, i am sure the response would be a resounding “hell yes”. mr bennett you are a sensitive guy, thats ok, but don’t think that because you don’t have the rage inside you that others should stand by do nothing to put out the fire that burns within them. terrorism has to be stopped and if not by us then by whom?

I am seriously glad that you morons will be toast soon. The ignorance the vast majority of you display is astounding to me. Stay asleep…really. I won’t mourn your loss in the least. As for what Mr. Bennett is saying…good for him for speaking the truth since so few are brave enough to.

Shame on you Tony! You must be senial. Go live in Iran.Traitor!

Killing under the cloak of war is mueder. Albert Einstein

I am a conservative but Liberal on Social issues for the most part. I have not served in the military, but I have no issue with what Tony said at all. For the record he didnt say anyone deserved it, he doesnt think any people anywhere deserve to die. As other people said, we do get too involved in places of the world where we should not, and many other countries we are friends with will tell us this, like Canada. we cannot simply say if you dont like war than you are liberal. Killing people is wrong no matter what your views are. Tony is right, but should have explained further, I would buy his CD if that s what kindof music I liked. I wouldnt base my purchase on his beliefs, only his talents.

Its hard to believe the number of people calling Tony Bennett a traitor. Even those that admit he has a right to his opinion, but saying the US government is culpable in any way for the attacks somehow means he hates his country and should leave.
Are people really that naive? First he wasn’t condoning the terrorist act, he wanted people to understand that the policies of the US government have an negative effect, that rather than bring peace to the region, brings instability. And we continue to kill civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Men, women and children. Unfortunately, the big corporate news agencies won’t show the women and children killed by drones or US bombs. I think they should. That would be the only way the people of the US might start to understand why there is hatred for the US. He apologized because so many people started calling traitor because they misunderstood his meaning and intent. Come on people, wake up to the truth.

There is no doubt that the attacks of 9/11 were a response to our mideast foreign policies. If you do some (unbiased) research into what life was like under Mubarak or Gadaffi, or what life is like in war-torn Iraq or under Israeli occupation you’ll understand why we are hated by so much of the Arab world. Tony Bennett spoke the truth. Only a simple-minded bonehead (i.e., most Republicans) would believe that 19 Arabs would be willing to go on a suicide mission to destroy the WTC because “they hate us for our freedoms”. WAKE UP!!! They hate us for our policies, their hate is rational and completely understandable, and until we change our policies so that they are in-line with our stated values of human rights and democracy they will continue to hate us.

Yes, let’s insult an old man for having an opinion that may differ from your own. As I recall, he has the right to say whatever he pleases, according to some unimportant known as the US Constitution.

I just find it sickening how convenient it is to forget about the countless Iraqis and Afghans that have been killed since we invaded them 10 years ago. Also, if you give weapons to a man like Osama Bin Laden, knowing exactly how he feel about Westerners, you shouldn’t be surprised when he does use them against you.

Interesting post but like always I tend to confirm everything I read on the net.