Ben Affleck on the phrase "War on Terror"

Ben Affleck, on Real Time with Bill Maher, eloquently explains why using the phrase "War on Terror" doesn't work.

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[zephonlucifer]

Ben Affleck just won a new fan. Thumbs up if this is true for you.

[Prka01]

I'm ashamed to say that I've always considered Affleck to be a brainless Holywood male bimbo. I'm happy to say, I was wrong. The guy has a fair amount of brain matter.

[serpentinefireball]

@zephonlucifer yep mean i liked him b4 But NOW am a fan for life, cuz he is not living in this lil box of discrimination and uses his own brain to think!

[morphyis]

Yes Afghanistan was going to fight back what the hell do you think we would do i we were invaded by another country accusing us of terrorism with no proof do they just expect us to hand over our leaders and let them destroy our country without a fight. If your answer is no then you need to understand that is exactly what we done to them. And no we still haven't found and signs of WMD's in Iraq which was the only reason given for our invasion and killing of their leader.

[morphyis]

The fact is the United States has never proven that Osama Bin Laden had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks. Our government now admits most of the videos were fake and the real ones were intentionally misinterpreted. Dick Chaney tried to say he never said that Bin Laden was involved but he did and there are many videos to prove that.

[DDTphoenix]

Wise 

[dbsommers1]

So, basically he's saying it's a slogan and not the totality of a policy.

Wow, I didn't realize that. Thanks, Mr. Obvious.

[castle001]

The September 11 attacks were engineered by a rogue network of the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies working with moles in the private sector and in corporate media.

"False flag terrorism" occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy.

[studlyf88]

funny how we don't hear much about Ben Affleck in the media in 2011

[Gedankenbaukunst]

Ben is f.. right . Hard to understand why the average JO's can t understand that ?????

[falasteeeen]

@geeflyboy 4th Islam is a peaceful religion research true Islam & youll see.its extremely unfair of u to b marking celebs as"uninformed, ignorant" & to say "ignore or rebuke their silly claims" is insulting the intelligence of ur audience, we're all able to think fo ourselves thats the beauty of mankind we're all able to think & form opinions for ourselves.One must be acceptant of all mankind & willing to see that wat is different to us is not to be feared, to truly develop & mature as a person.

[falasteeeen]

@geeflyboy mate, if anything, i think youre at war with yourself

you are generalising like crazy and my first point would be that jihad does not mean holy war, secondly Islam doesnt seek to do anything of the sort and id love to see the evidence and proof behind your claims, thirdly how many true muslims are using terrorism? thats exactly like me saying due to the fairly recent norway massacre, "christians are terrorists", you can not generalise like that, it denotes ignorance on your behalf...