From correspondents in Los Angeles
August 17, 2006 08:51am

NICOLE Kidman has made a public stand against terrorism.

The actress, joined by 84 other high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today's Los Angeles Times newspaper.

It specifically targets "terrorist organisations" such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine.

"We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas," the ad reads.

"If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die.

"We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs."

A who's who of Hollywood heavyweights joined Kidman on the ad.

The actors listed included: Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton and William Hurt.

Directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Dick Donner and Sam Raimi also signed their names.

Other Hollywood powerplayers supporting the ad included Sumner Redstone, the chairman and majority owner of Paramount Pictures, and billionaire mogul, Haim Saban.

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Could this be true? I'm speechless. Hollywood actors actually placing the blame where it belongs, on the terrorists. I still won't believe it until I have it in print in my hands. There must be some veiled jab at Bush, the US government or Israel in the article somewhere.

I do not believe that Hezbollah was democratically elected. In fact, when the current government of Lebanon ran, it's platform included a call for all militia groups to disarm. After the election, the gov't called for disarmament and all other groups went along. Hezbollah told them to get fucked. The Lebanese gov't has been AFRAID to go into the Hezbollah controlled areas for years.

That being said, I agree with you that the concept of liking democracy until the people elect someone you don't like is out there - unfortuantely, that's the tacit position of the US president and his band of idiots.

People with a broader view know that democracy before people are ready for it is just mob-rule.

Yep...Hizbollah only have democratically elected representatives in the Lebanese parliament/congress...they are NOT the Lebanese Government.

Hamas, on the other hand, ARE the democratically elected Government of Palestine (if Palestine is even recognised as a proper nation at this time).

It will be interesting to see whether the recent spat in the Middle East has strengthened Hizbollah's position or weakened it...

I have two words of warning for those who think a force-feeding of democracy is the elixir for a sick society:

Weimar Germany

i condemm nikki kidman for marrying that fruitcake and not spilling the beans about his faggoty ways after he peaced out that bitch.

spill them beans ho!

it's late , I'm sleepy but... Fuck Israel.

You can't civilize an animal, you can train it to do certain things but it is still an animal. When the governments of the world realize this point about terrorists perhaps we can actually work together to solve the problem in a lasting way. The civilized world is pissing in the wind thinking that it can use their methods and rules against such demons.