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April 03, 2008
"Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism and Insurgents Are Patriots"
Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots
Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing.” On not taking drastic action to correct global warming:
TED TURNER: :
Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.
Turner ridiculed the need for a big U.S. military, insisting “China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing craft to attack the United States,” and “even with our $500 billion military budget, we can't win in Iraq. We're being beaten by insurgents who don't even have any tanks.” After Rose pointed out the Iraqi insurgents “have a lot of roadside bombs that kill a lot of Americans” and wondered “where do you think they come from?”, Turner answered:
TED TURNER:
I think that they're patriots and that they don't like us because we've invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing: we'd be bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded.
A couple of excerpts from Turner on the Tuesday, April 1 Charlie Rose on PBS, all apparently not April Fool's comments but what he really believes:
On what will happen if global warming is not addressed immediately:
TED TURNER: Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state -- like Somalia or Sudan -- and living conditions will be intolerable. The droughts will be so bad there'll be no more corn grown. Not doing it is suicide. Just like dropping bombs on each other, nuclear weapons is suicide. We've got to stop doing the suicidal two things, which are hanging on to our nuclear weapons and after that we've got to stabilize the population. When I was born-
CHARLIE ROSE: So what's wrong with the population?
TURNER: We're too many people. That's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff. If there were less people, they'd be using less stuff.
On what he told the UN in a speech Tuesday:
TED TURNER: I also said war doesn't make any sense anymore. And we need to cut the military budgets back.
ROSE: How much do you want to cut the military budgets back?
TURNER: Right now the U.S. is spending $500 billion a year on the military which is more than all 190 countries in the world put together. The two countries that the military-industrial complex and some of the politicians would like to demonize and make enemies are Russia and China. China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing craft to attack the United States. And Russia wants to be our friends, too.
ROSE: Well, wait a minute. No, no, no.
TURNER: Well I know that because I spent time with the Chinese and Russians.
ROSE: You're telling me the Chinese military budget is not increasing? Is that what you're saying?
TURNER: It might increase, but you know how big it is compared to ours? It's one 20th what ours is and so is the Russian military budget. Those are not credible expenditures. However, even with our $500 billion military budget, we can't win in Iraq. We're being beaten by insurgents who don't even have any tanks, they don't have a headquarters, they don't have a Pentagon. We don't even know if they have any Generals.
ROSE: They have a lot of roadside bombs that kill a lot of Americans.
TURNER: Well, that's right. That's exactly right.
ROSE: And where do you think they come from?
TURNER: I think that they're patriots and that they don't like us because we've invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing: we'd be bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded.
ROSE: Nobody likes an occupying force, or to be occupied.
TURNER: That's right. It's gotten to be -- it's passe. You know, it's time to move on. I mean, all we have to do is look at Vietnam. In Vietnam, we killed three million Vietnamese. They never attacked us, we attacked them. It was another one of these preemptive wars like the war in Iraq. And we lost 50,000. They lost three million. That's like 60 for one. But at the end of 18 years we left and the Vietnamese were there.
I'm just so glad, because I think about it a lot, that the Vietnamese, the North Vietnamese, didn't give us an ultimatum that we couldn't leave Vietnam until we signed a decoration of surrender, you know, so they could get that on tape just like the Japanese surrendered on the Missouri.
ROSE: We made them sign a declaration of surrender.
TURNER: Yeah, but we surrendered and then we could go home. We couldn't go home. What if the Iraqis, the insurgents say that: we're not going to let you leave until you sign a surrender document, we just want the mighty United States. I mean, that's how ridiculous the whole situation is.
ROSE: But where does this, where did this idea come from?
TURNER: I think a lot. I spend a lot of time thinking. And I hope that's not a sin. And let me tell you another one, another story: We're not the only superpower that's being beaten by a third world country that doesn't have a single airplane. The Russians got beat, too.
ROSE: In Afghanistan.
TURNER: That's exactly right.
ROSE: With whose help?
TURNER: Well, we were helping Osma bin Laden, we were backing him that time.
ROSE: The Mujahidin.
TURNER: Right.
Wild Thing's comment........
I think something has been eating Ted’s brains for years now. Holy cow this guy has always been nuts but I think he has totally lost his mind. And he calls the terrorists PATRIOTS oh my gawd!
Posted by Wild Thing at April 3, 2008 03:55 AM
Comments
The guy is an atheist, he has lots of money and no one is going to tell him he's wrong. He's got his head so far in the clouds...that even Hanoi Jane couldn't stand him!
The guy is a nut case. CNN stands for Chicken Noodle News or Crazy Nuthouse Network.
Who does he care who he hurts?
Posted by: Lynn at April 3, 2008 06:06 AM
Ha, Ted has completely lost it. He sounds like he is getting a bunker mentality as he thinks global warming is bringing the end of the world. Who'da ever thought we would be cannibals in 40 years. Whoopee Teddy, chew on some of your money while the rest of us enjoy life. Your money has obviously not brought you happiness, not with that pessimistic outlook.
Posted by: TomR at April 3, 2008 08:52 AM
Since Turner thinks their too many people, maybe he'll lead by example and shoot himself.
He's buying up land as fast as he can in Montana. I lived there in the mid-90's and he was despised by the people. Eventually he'll own enough land to where he'll own the state government.
Listening to his admiration for terrorists in Iraq, it makes one wonder if he's funneling money to them.
Posted by: BobF at April 3, 2008 08:58 AM
Charlie Rose interviewing, is almost like Larry King interviewing, no tough questinons just string them along and agree. Bovine Spongiform Encepholopathy isn't just for cows, I'd bet when Robert Edward Turner, "Teddy", was an itty bitty baby that his handlers had to tie his momma's leg up to keep her from kicking him to death while he nursed. He has since succumbed to delusions of grandeur in his schizophrenic world. Remember how whacked out Howard Hughes became, strong similarities.
Posted by: Jack at April 3, 2008 12:33 PM
Turner surely hates this country. So why does he stay. Because there is nowhere else in the world he could make these ridiculous statements and not get arrested for them.
Why is he worried about 40 years from now he talks like he's going to still be around. This is surely dementia, early Alzheimers.
The man is a total disaster.
Posted by: Mark at April 3, 2008 12:44 PM
Ted Turner may have been very successful in business but that doesn't change the fact that he is a blithering IDIOT. His views on the insurgents and global warming make him the perfect VP candidate for Barack Hussein Obama, another blithering and dangerous idiot.
Posted by: Les at April 3, 2008 12:51 PM
Ted is dead in the head! However, just in case he's right about global warming...I'm preparing my "who to eat first" list. The part that makes my brain ache is that Americans listen to the likes of Ted Turner and ignore the experts and scientists (Or Al "hey, I invented the internet" Gore, yuck.) (Hey! Maybe we should send Michael Moore to some starving nation -- he'd feed more than a few when the cannibalism starts.)
Posted by: PeteSuj at April 3, 2008 02:14 PM
Lynn, exacrtly, gosh I would love to have been at that interview, but I probably would have been kicked out from laughing so hard. LOL
He is totally nuts and a total communist too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 3, 2008 07:09 PM
Tom, LMAO good one!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 3, 2008 07:10 PM
Bob good suggestion. LOL That would be ok with me if he did that.
You know you might have something there Bob. CODE PINK ghave almost a million to the terrorists in Iraq and it would not be hard at all for Ted Turner to do the same thing.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 3, 2008 07:12 PM
Jack, LOL what a site that would be. hahahaha
Yes Charlie Rose is a total wimp. YUK! I truly can't stand wimps.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 3, 2008 07:14 PM
Mark, yes all you said and also why stay in America. He could buy a country, heck he has been trying to buy the USA and owns huge amounts of land in Neb., Oregon and other States.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 3, 2008 07:20 PM
Les, Turner a commie and match that with Obama the man that will give favor to the muslim agenda. Scary stuff. Both nuts.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 3, 2008 07:21 PM
PeteSuj .....ROTFL
"I'm preparing my "who to eat first" list."
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 3, 2008 07:24 PM
MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!
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