ROCKER BLAMES BECKHAM FOR WAR IN IRAQ

Last updated: Wednesday, July 15, 2009

ROCKER BLAMES BECKHAM FOR WAR IN IRAQ

DAVID BECKHAM is to blame for the war in Iraq, because he didn't use his superstar status to rally against it - according to Scottish rocker JOHN MCCLURE.

John McClure performed a special gig for 'The Big Ask' as part of a Friends Of the Earth's campaign to get the UK Government to introduce tough new climate change laws, at the Science Museum. London, England - 03.06.08

In a bizarre rant, the Reverend & The Makers singer insists superstars have a responsibility to use their fame for good, and he's convinced the British government would have backed out of the war if the likes of Beckham had rallied public support against conflict.

He tells British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "If David Beckham had of spoken out about Iraq it wouldn't have happened, I honestly believe that hand on heart, or Britain certainly wouldn't have got involved. Beckham's cultural gravitas was as such in that period that if he'd have gone, 'I don't want this war in Iraq, it's an awful thing, we should not do it', it wouldn't have happened, the public would've gone mad against it.

"But because he kept his gob shut, and everybody else did, it happened, we sleepwalked our way there."

Source: WENN

| Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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ROCKER BLAMES BECKHAM FOR WAR IN IRAQ

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