Ambassador Angelina Is Nervous

Don't mine Iraq's border, pleads Jolie

"Angelina Jolie is taking a stance against the proposed mining of Iraq's borders. The United Nations ambassador of goodwill (and good looks) tells us that she's "nervous" about suggestions that carefully monitored land mines might slow the tide of insurgents and weapons into the war zone."
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Every time a genuine attempt is made to find out precisely what Angelina Jolie DOES as an "ambassador of goodwill", her publicist, her UN, and of course HER herself is nowhere to be found, but now we know. Well, a little. She jumps on the loony left's no-landmines bandwagon because after all, landmines might harm innocent children who happen to have surrmounted all other obstacles and step on one while harmlessly playing hide and seek in a war zone.

"Wall Street Journal editorialist Melik Kaylan, who has visited the Iraq-Syria border, wrote recently: "At first glance, minefields would seem to furnish a wildly backhanded propaganda victory to the enemy, another juicy chance for Al Jazeera to trumpet American barbarism … [but] minefields can be clearly marked and laid according to a network-blueprint, which remains highly classified until after the conflict ends. That blueprint would allow the mines to be cleared quickly and systematically. A precisely ordered minefield is a weapon of peace, rather than war; a deterrent and a stabilizer."

Sounds fair enough. Anything that stems the onslaught of invaders who've come to kill Iraqi's or Americans SHOULD be used. Right?

"Jolie said she was open to learning more about the proposal when we chatted with her this week at the Waldorf-Astoria, where she was honored by the United Nations Association."
But it's hard for the Oscar winner to forget the legless children she has met in Cambodia, Afghanistan and other countries where mines have been used.
"Land mines are a dangerous tool that have killed and injured many civilians," she said, gravely. "The idea of using it in that way makes me a bit nervous."

Aw, she's "open to learning more", and isn't that special? And why hasn't the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the White House called Ms Jolie in to seek her opinion on such a complex matter? I'm quite certain they value her input, and would love to sit and chat up the whole war-plan scenario. One question though: where the fuck was this brainless twit when Saddam was blasting people, including children to pieces on a regular basis? Oh, it's fair game to be nervous about trying to STOP terrorists but it's fine for the terrorists to use car bombs and the like to blow the simple fuck out of thousands of OTHER innocent people. Has this simpelton been following the news at all, or doesn't she KNOW that kids are dying each and every day from terrorist bombs?

Probably not. She'd have mentioned that bombings made her nervous too, so she prolly doesn't realize what's going on. I mean, if she DID, then that makes her a complete lunatic asswipe.

Wait. She was honored by the UN. That makes her a lunatic asswipe anyway. And hey, Angie? I got your stance. Right here.