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"Cashing in on the gulf war 2"

First Madonna, now Avril Lavigne with her VERY repetative song, "Knocking on Heaven's Door" which is rumoured to have been thought up in 12.3 seconds!

"Hi guys!"
"Nice Tie"
"What shall we do today?"
"Dude, wanna cash in on the war?"
"Right!"

So she sings the words "Knocking on Heaven's Door" about 100 times whilst footage of Iraqi kids in schools gets played - bearing in mind these kids will have been taught the ways of the regime in those schools atleast until now.

She a very bad person.

Ther record will sell and she'll make lots of money.

avril lavigne should be cut in half, and the two halves be distributed equally between the iraqi people and the kurds (correct spelling?)

Actually all the artists and producers have made the point that this is not about their own views, but about raising money for Iraq's children. Those kids don't give a toss whether I supported war, or whether someone didn't, because they need help.

This isn't an anti-war album, it's not anti-Iraq, anti-American, pro-war or whatever. It's an album to raise money.

I know full well some of their views, yet even though the majority differ from mine it did not stop me buying it.

Doesn't really matter whether she's for or against the war - either case is using the war to stir up media attention and further their bank balance... sorry, political views. Then, it depends who does it - Lennon records Give Peace A Chance and is a hero, other artists comment and are cashing in. Granted, their is a gulf between the two (boom boom), but at the end on the day you could be a little less cynical and just say this is people abusing their position to further their view point. Why is Madge cashing in but Michael Moore gets worldwide applause for a rant at the Oscars (which I enjoyed no end)?

And just to add on, seeing as the video for American Life had a scene cut out where she throws a grenade at a George Bush lookalike, I fail to see how that's a cash in either......

Ahem, how is the Warchild HOPE album cashing in ?

The producers of it are only taking their own costs involved in physically producing it in factories - i.e. s*d all - and the artists have all recorded free of charge in recording studies/venues which gave their services free of charge.

So the only people cashing in is the Warchild charity itself, which seeing as they're using the money to help people in Iraq, seems okay to me.

I reckon the film about Jessica Lynch will actually turn out to be a made for tv one that we get on Hallmark, because there's either going to be some serious artistic licence or it'll be one relatively dull film.

BEARDS. wrote:
> No, the worst thing about it is that they're talking about making a
> film of that American servicewoman being rescued. That alone is
> justification enough to set nuclear weaponry off in Hollywood.

I just want to see which of the peace loving actresses who were flashing peace signs everywhere at the Oscars will forget their *principles* as soon as the dollar signs flash up in their eyes when the role of the servicewoman comes up for grabs.

Yeah - but for every Full Metal Jacket or Three Kings (just because it's more relevant and easier to spell than a certain other film that would obviously go there) there's a Private Benjamin. Rough with the smooth and all that.

No, the worst thing about it is that they're talking about making a film of that American servicewoman being rescued. That alone is justification enough to set nuclear weaponry off in Hollywood.

CNN and the BBC - that's all they're ever on about. And the newspapers - just using some people's misery to shift stock. EVIL!

I have words for people like this, but I can't write them as I'll be baned