From ESMB http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?33827-Tom-Cruise-has-royally-pissed-off-our-veterans
Tom Cruise: My work as an actor is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan. I'm sure that there will be many a Soldier thinking, Orly. May be, there is a platoon that will take his ass on a night mission in Kandahar. How about it Tom .. Nothing that rattles, nothing that shines.
Tom Cruise: My work as an actor is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan. Tom Cruise: My work as an actor is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan. Tom Cruise: My work as an actor is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan. Tom Cruise: My work as an actor is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan. Tom Cruise: My work as an actor is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan. Tom Cruise: My work as an actor is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan. Tom Cruise: My work as an actor is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan. Just rolls off the tongue doesn't it? This needs to be tweeted!
So now Tom can blame his new failed movie (if it ever comes out now) on his depo being broadcasted? that's right Tom Your own words and behavior has sunk you once again! Tom Cruise is the authority on saying the wrong things.
^^^ They should print that out, poster size. And then pin it to the canteen wall. They could probably do with some light relief while eating their 4 dicks off death.
they would prolly prefer to make Tom their bitch for the day and really give Tom a REAL work out of what it is really like to be in Afg. I wonder if they will provide him with freshly laundered camo thongs? Tom's preference over undies.
RightOn , there are some things I just don't want to visualise ever and TC in a thong is one of them. On this occasion I've decided to let you off, because he deserves all the muck that can be thrown at him for comparing what he does to that of a soldier's job in Afghanistan.
Tom Cruise: HAVE YOU EVER SEEN AN SP? CONFRONT AND SHATTER SUPPRESSION. YOU APPLY IT AND IT'S LIKE "BOOM"! THEY HAVE SPACESHIPS.
Put him with 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team. For 6 months. And it won't be any fourth of fucking July. Maybe it's just what he needs. He's going to have to do something, he's going to have to own it, and he's going to have to front it.
inb4 Tom's "team" schedules some sort of Tom Cruise and soldier PR interaction pukey thing for damage control edited: and I also posted this quote from Tom's lawyer in the other thread: Bert Fields: "What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like." oh really? sorry Bert, that sucks too! You don't mess with people who have served/or who are serving and compare it to a froo froo day on the movie set to serving in Afg. . hey Tom. I FIND THAT OFFENSIVE!
I'd like to see him put his money where his mouth is. Cancel all of his contractual obligations .. Get his life insurance together. And Gear Up.
Just to take a wider view of this, does anyone not think it odd this got published at all? Tom was absolutely untouchable 5-10 years ago. I still remember the gay porn star he sued into absolute oblivion. Even a few years back when he said all antidepressant use for PPD was wrong/evil/bout that bullshit, all he got was Brooke Shields mewling her dissent. I don't really share the 'outrage' - actors say this kind of dumb shit all the time, and Tom is one of many. What is interesting is this non-story was made into a story for the publics edification. This story, plus the booing at the baseball game, make me wonder if we may see a little less Tom in the future? His Golden Boy status is pretty much done now.
Being a Scientologist he could stop the war just by thinking about it. Oh wait no, he's too humble for that.
Tom Cruise: I CAN APPLY STANDARD TECH AND CLEAR THE AFGHAN'S MISUNDERTOOD WORDS. I CAN SHIFT THEM UP THE TONE SCALE TO ENTHUSIASM WITH DIANETICS UNTIL THEY ARE RUNNNING THEIR OWN INCIDENTS. POW!
How would he even have an idea of what it FEELS like? You stupid, coddled, ignorant, arrogant, deluded fuck... /walking away, shaking head, muttering more profane yet accurately descriptive words for this asswipe douchebag freak of an excuse for a human.
You're so God Damn Right! .. I'm so sick of these rich, out of touch, not living in reality Assholes. And their looney toon, flippant remarks. Real flesh and blood is being spilled on a daily basis. Brave souls returning home in body bags. Civilians being killed in their thousands. FUCK THE WAR - Bring the troops home. And fuck you Tom Cruise. You'll pussy your way out of it as per usual. He has absolutely no fucking idea. Getting into a REAL firefight in Afghanistan .. Fuck .. I'd like to see him get all Jack Reacharound on that.
I think Tom was trying to give an example of other fathers who don't see their kids for over a 100 days and soldiers came to mind. But the soldiers in Afghanistan don't see their kids --not because their work is "brutal," although for some it is brutal--but because they're in fucking Afghanistan and they're under orders to stay there.
Cruise sounds like any other person who lives in a bubble, more than a little clueless about the normal concerns of people.
TL;DR. REAL WAR HEROES EARNED REAL MEDALS. REAL VETERANS DESERVE RESPECT, good treatment and gratitude for their service.
