Hunter opposed the Iraq invasion

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Hunter opposed the Iraq invasion

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17 жыл бұрын

HUNTER ON THE IRAQ INVASION: "I think it's a beastly, monumentally stupid mistake for the country."

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@ShadowShift7 11 жыл бұрын

"This war is not essentially about Oil, at its core" HST: "Well, what do you think it's about?" "Power.." HST: "Yeah, where do you seperate those?"

@samboni10 15 жыл бұрын

Hunter's clarity and foresight was incredible, he was saying things in 2001 I didn't start hearing from most people until 2006

@michaelm6962 Жыл бұрын

That’s why he died. He knew too much.

@kahlua619 13 жыл бұрын

"This is not about oil!, This is not about oil. Oil may be part of it" ASS

@stephen300o6 7 жыл бұрын

Charlie was playing devil advocate for the folks at home, these two got on fine together. Friends even.

@EricSmith9000 11 ай бұрын

Turns out it wasn't just Bush or the Republicans. That has been educational.

@HexicNexus 13 жыл бұрын

Hunter knew what was up with the oil game way before regular people knew the whole thing was about to fall over

@DawsDaws860 Жыл бұрын

His ability to see through the bullshit was incredible

@sleepyeyeguy 11 жыл бұрын

What's with the Hunter S. Thompson bashing. A strong spirit cannot be tamed by age, and is constantly seeking and striving. Drug use is a vehicle for exploration of the self and the world. Regardless of age and decrepitude, you can't snuff the passion in someone like Mr. Thompson. RESPECT!

@Fanuc_Operator1990 Жыл бұрын

Not really. If that was true he wouldn't have shot himself 5 or so years later.

@jordil6152 11 ай бұрын

HST had flickerings of genius which he drowned in substance abuse. He destroyed his brain and writing in the mid-70's, and over the last 20 years of his life became a commentator feeding off of CNN than a journalist out in the field seeking facts; if he ever was a journalist. He degenerated into a hired gun and propagandist for DNC interests, and blew his brains out when his junky lifestyle had him wearing a diaper. The man was nothing more than a drug problem with a typewriter. I find his work very entertaining, but extremely irresponsible. Lord knows how many idiot kids destroyed their lives because of some misplaced respect for that gibbering cartoon character.

@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec 4 ай бұрын

It killed his writing career. He simply couldn’t write for decades due to his abuse. Addiction freezes your development. He had been getting high every day since his twenties. A twenty something g trapped in a middle age body.

@Cocrteau3 17 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I agree! The main point is how HST replies to his questions - and the questions provoke some pretty good answers which is the main point of asking questions anyways. I draw back my reference to a jerk.

@gtrrs71 12 жыл бұрын

HST didn't shy away from anyone who disagreed with him - in fact he THRIVED on debate. He felt that a profoundly inherent American characteristic is diversity. The man drank whiskey with Pat Buchanan for chrissakes and he did it on purpose. If you look at his roster of friends they are the most diverse set of folks you could ever imagine. He was not on Charlie Rose by accident, guys.

@Spindles15 12 жыл бұрын

Should've asked ol' Charlie about his time at the Bohemian Club.

@EricSmith9000 11 ай бұрын

Down the memory hole.

@navenow 12 жыл бұрын

Even Alan Greenspan spilled the beans: It's about Oil. Always has been in Iraq.

@tommypearson9260 9 жыл бұрын

The more I watch Documentaries on Hunter S Thompson the more i recognize America is Fucked !

@Dealit707 9 жыл бұрын

If America is fucked, it will land squarely at the feet of Barry Obama, the American hating Marxist POS, and his ball-licking Socialist whores aka,......the Democrat Party. They, like this fool Hunter Thompson, live in a make-believe fairyland world where America is to blame for every-fucking thing going on, no matter where or what the circumstances. If this dipshit Hunter Thompson where alive today, he'd surely think ISIS was nothing more than a misunderstood and fun loving bunch of guys...........Hunter Thompson was a paranoid A-hole...........Good riddence.

@Luvie1980 9 жыл бұрын

Dealit707 GFY!

@Jason1717171717 2 жыл бұрын

Unequally brilliant, unusually real, misunderstood.

@musashi-san____1409 Жыл бұрын

Charlie Rose was so clueless. Hunter should have really torn him a new asshole.

@arianbarbarian 12 жыл бұрын

He lost his energy and that suited succubus is draining him with his diabolical smile. It leaves us all humiliated.

@brettfavreify 12 жыл бұрын

Hunter was so much ahead on this, you would think he was Canadian.

@maldernaldo 11 жыл бұрын

the man himself couldnt say it better himself

@MrHilsy 12 жыл бұрын

Despite the fact you can tell hes fucked up as shit here (in gonzo fashion), this guy is essentially brilliant.rip Hunter S. Thompson. the world needs people like you to establish the alternative contesters to a conservative regime

@keithhasvideos 12 жыл бұрын

i want some of whats in his coffee mug.

@spikerogan 17 жыл бұрын

Hes giving the counter point to Dr Thompson as a form of getting him to give detail. Phil Donahue did it all the time.

@UberKrispy 11 жыл бұрын

yes he nailed it - and Rose couldn't come up with a good response

@dereljohnson 12 жыл бұрын

I too am appalled by what Charlie Rose said, but then again he only exists in some alternate world of nothingness or the edge of the universe with only a table and a camera owned by public broadcasting

@GreenCloudArtOrg420 Жыл бұрын

These guys sure have great chemistry rapport, like Carson & Dangerfield and Conan & Norm

@uhfnutbar1 11 жыл бұрын

A Wonderful Man he was :)

@foodchewer Жыл бұрын

Sometimes, at certain angles, Hunter S. Thompson looks like an old Chinese man. Y'all know what the fuck I'm talking about, don't anybody act like they don't.

@oxtyfed 11 жыл бұрын

Yup. A terrifying slate of a suit trying with a desperately cold eagerness to kick a lion into paths he dosent need to defend; more lives lived in the shadow of Hunter`s lenses than this man will ever know,. (I know this response is a year late but I just stumbled on this clip).

@trusselt 11 жыл бұрын

Charlie Rose, the man with an eternal Blank facade.

@gonzogooch 9 жыл бұрын

this show spells his name without capital letters what a insult to a writer!!!!!!!!!!!1

@jcasetnl 11 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Hunter's words proved more true in the long run. Now add on all the NSA/Patriot act crap and maybe he was understating it.

@chadthunderjock6520 11 ай бұрын

It doesn't matter if Thompson opposed the war - hundreds of millions of people around the globe opposed the war - it went ahead anyway...and 10's of millions died as a result. I liked most of Thompson's work, but his political views were the same as everyone else's, at that time, unimportant.

@aluisious 11 жыл бұрын

It might not have been "about" freedom and change, but that was a stated goal and a result. I didn't think so before but my girlfriend is an Iraqi Shia who was able to come to the USA only because of the war. I'd be a fool not to listen to her opinion.

@gonzothegreat1317 8 жыл бұрын

It was a stupid mistake for the country, it was a brilliant move for Bush's oil company. Like father, like son. It's a family business after all.

@-ColorMehJewish- 7 жыл бұрын

Wow you can actually understand HST in his older age. Could barely understand a word when he mumbled in his youth- all fd up.

@ggg666ggg666ggg666 13 жыл бұрын

I guess the time has shown that Hunter was right about the war on Iraq. Or well... Maybe it was about power, also. But what he says about fear... It was about that, pretty much. Otherwise, Rose is doing a good job.

@carlodave9 11 жыл бұрын

I'd agree, except I'd say in the short run too.

@gabrieltooth 11 жыл бұрын

were george carlin and hunter s. thompson friends? if that was the case, they should have had awesome conversations... those that blow your mind...

@BIGDRXXMR444 11 жыл бұрын

rose said it, its about OIL AND POWER ALSO ITS ABOUT CONTAINEMENT.exactly, RIP HUNTER STOCKTON THOMPSON FTW.

@lov2aclr8 12 жыл бұрын

he moves like the "young" hunter, only a few frames slower.i wish i was more like Hunter....

@katiedroid 12 жыл бұрын

This just drives me nuts. I'm drunk on Jack and I took sleeping pills at least an hour... maybe two hours ago, and Hunter still makes more god damn sense to me than this tight assed corporate suite. Everytime this Charlie character leans forward to make some startling point you can see he's already congratulating himself for being cleaver. It's just so obvious. I love you Hunter. Thank you. Question authority! I apologise for any gratitous misspelling.

@DarkSkies72 2 жыл бұрын

Sleeping pills and Jack, oh yeah! What kind of sleeping pill? (My favourite)

@gianthairypickle7545 Жыл бұрын

Ambien maybe a little Percocet

@wyattrussell7496 3 жыл бұрын

A shaman speaking with a studebaker.

@HollandDamien 11 жыл бұрын

I disagreed with it from the beginning primarily because the government wouldn't provide us any tangible evidence. Was disliked for voicing that opinion, as well.

@pianospawn1 12 жыл бұрын

Its all exactly the same today. RIP Hunter

@thecasualfront7432 9 жыл бұрын

i wonder why hunter bit his tongue over iraq there

@theflorgeormix 12 жыл бұрын

@IndicaDreaming I agree totally, and Democracies don't attack each other, responsible use of resources for the good of humankind - not to blackmail humankind is probably a little better

@elmuhfuh 14 жыл бұрын

because comments arent just arguments that someone can win rather they are comments. you are right, however, people who put the thoughts in book form are most times referred to as "writers", this may be a foreign concept to you but you will have to trust me on it. most of the times "thinkers" are referred to people who are philosophers, ethicists or someone who bestows some sort of wisdom. does writing require thoughts and thinking, of course, but youre looking at it literally.

@05AWAG 11 жыл бұрын

Q why do people ask a question...interrupt the answer and then try to change the mind of the answerer? because they dont want to know the answer, they want to change the mind of the answerer

@MrChicobomb 3 жыл бұрын

This war is not about oil . 😂

@gturner38 12 жыл бұрын

@theflorgeormix Creating a false reason for removing Saddam and pulling troops away from a warzone where an enemy that actually attacked America was operating sends the wrong message about America. Going into a war in which you are going to strip a country of its government without any real plan for creating a new government or providing any sort of stability for the folks we were "liberating" (which was exactly the case in 2003) doesn't send the right message, either.

@thetruth4u13 6 жыл бұрын

Charlie rose was wrong 100% wrong

@freesouljah 17 жыл бұрын

charlie rose...

@elmuhfuh 14 жыл бұрын

besides, i said he was a great thinker. what are you wanting to argue about?

@OM3N1R 12 жыл бұрын

sigh, My youtube comment won't go far.FUCK IT! Welcome to Hunter's brain.

@kaylanoller8661 6 жыл бұрын

Stupid fucking show doesn't even capitalize Hunter's name....

@frankpalumbo6866 11 жыл бұрын

Dam real!

@monapierson5050 11 жыл бұрын

Oh hell, Charlie is like everyone else in the establishment. He is uptight and thinking of his own career, trying to make Hunter behave. He is no more sucessful than anyone else at this hopeless endeavor.

@thedieiscastfellow4815 9 жыл бұрын

forgive me am too drunk as a write these

@antidote7 12 жыл бұрын

Funny, Charlie was wrong about almost everything, lol.

@anthonymarker 12 жыл бұрын

i mean who's really being interviewed jesus

@IndicaDreaming 12 жыл бұрын

@theflorgeormix You don't stop genocide by starting a war

@guitarchoonz 8 жыл бұрын

gene w RIP still alive in endless time

@MintberryCrunch7 12 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who has no idea what he's saying?

@theflorgeormix 12 жыл бұрын

@gturner38 its a balance, the world after WWII has had a bunch of totalitarian societies crop up, starting with Stalin's Russia, Saddam was a Psycho Capable of anything...the World is currently a better place

@moriorioriarty 4 жыл бұрын

Adrenochrome?

@sugarfreelemonade 13 жыл бұрын

Furthermore, Rose was right when he said that oil is only a part of the deal. Iraq is a member of OPEC and removing an unpredictable dictator does a lot to stabilize oil prices and ensure a stable price of oil. Hunter was right to tell him that oil and power are relatively synonymous, but there was so much more than oil and power. Saddam had invaded neighboring states, committed genocide, and experimented with WMDs; all of which are grounds for loss of sovereignty. Shame we didnt finish it in 91