Matt Damon On His Opposition To Bush And The War

[CatWoman]

"I didn't vote up to and including 2000. It's terrible to say this but I didn't feel like my vote was going to make a difference because I already knew what the outcome was going to be. But 2000 cured me of that.

"I bought a big house in Florida with all the money that George Bush gave back to me with his tax cuts.

"But I voted for John Kerry in Florida in 2004 and I'll be voting in Florida at the next election.

"When the Iraq war started, I put my name to a newspaper ad with people who were opposed to it.

"We were called traitors and some people said we weren't supporting our troops. "That's what they said about anyone who was against it, which is why so many politicians were scared into supporting the war or were too weak to stand up and say what they believed."

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/live/live.html?in_article_id=469771&in_page_id=1889

[TwilightGardener]

1. He's just a Cutie-Patootie.

:loveya:

[BOSSHOG]

3. I saw Oceans Eleven

for the first time last night, he's a good actor as well as whatever you are saying about him. I'll say he's a handsome young man with a bright future.

[jobycom]

5. I think he's getting better as an actor, too.

I didn't like him in some of his earlier roles, like "The Bourne Identity." But he was good in the Ocean's franchise, and he was exceptional in "The Good Shepard."

[BOSSHOG]

2. Oh I so loved having my patriotism questioned

when I said we should fight terrorists not invade Iraq. There is no way a conservative could ever get a headachel.

[glitch]

4. "But Bond is an Establishment guy."

"He is a misogynist, an imperialist, he's all the things that Bourne isn't. He kills people then drinks a Martini."

I think I love this lad Matt Damon.

[annabanana]

6. From Good Will Hunting.. "Why NOT work for the NSA?"

"Why not work for the NSA?"

Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cuz I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East, and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding. Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are saying, "Oh, send in the marines to secure the area", 'cuz they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, getting shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cuz they were pulling a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there taking shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cuz he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're taking their sweet time bringing the oil back, of course, maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, it ain't too long till he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starving 'cuz every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're serving is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holding out for something better. I figure: fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.

And he delivered it so well too!

[Cha]

7. I love it that Matt Damon has

gotten into the world around him and wants to do something about the Suffering..also, that he knows that it's important to vote.

I don't think he's been observing tony blair as much as he needs to, though.

.."But I'm incredibly curious to know what Tony Blair thinks about Iraq now. Because he strikes me as a man of real integrity.

"I like Tony Blair but I could never understand it. What must he think now? I mean, it's a disaster."