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Tim Robbins pours his anger into an anti-war
play
San Francisco Chronicle
December 6, 2003
[Excerpt]
The play's comic stroke of genius is a masked chorus called "The Cabal,"
the policy advisers and analysts in the Pentagon's "Office of Special Plans" -
- with names like Rum-Rum, Pearly White, Woof, Gondola, Cove and Dick. ("I am
not the one who named them the Cabal, by the way," Robbins is quick to point
out. "Those guys in Washington call themselves that.") They sneer at reports
of swelling peace marches, consult their Palm Pilots to find the best date to
launch the invasion ("If we don't get this war started soon, we're going to
have to compete with the NBA playoffs") and recite a litany of excuses for why
none of them ever served in the armed forces -- a feature of the Bush
administration that makes Robbins seethe.
"You've got middle-aged men who never served when they were young enough to
serve in the armed forces now reaching their 50s and 60s and sending young men
and women off to fight," says Robbins. "And most of those (soldiers) they're
sending off to fight are poor. On top of that, for those 'chicken hawks' to
accuse others of a lack of patriotism because they are asking questions about
why it is necessary to put our young men and women at risk is for me another
hypocrisy. They were elected to be representatives in a democratic society,
and they are crushing democratic values when someone disagrees with them."
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