Comments about ‘Message movie — Robert Redford hopes 'Lions for Lambs' won't be lumped with flicks on Iraq war’

Redford laments that "only if people were better educated" we wouldn't be this mess? My question is, what education does Redford have? As far as I can tell, his qualifications are that he can pretend to be other people in front of a camera. Sorry, no respect from this military officer who has actually spent time in the Iraqi theatre.

Why do these actors believe they know more than anyone else. It's just another bitter attempt to slam conservative politics at every turn. I won't see this movie or any other film made for cheap political purposes. Redford is a disgrace!

I believe that Mr. Redford's comment about the people being more educated is actually about people being more brainwashed by our substandard educational system. His beliefs about seeing only one side does not indicate that his education is complete. He needs to understand that everyone has value and that our soldiers are on the front lines protecting our country and that people like him who go overseas and make disparaging remarks about his country are doing harm to this great nation. I am a Vietnam Veteran who loves his country. In that war we were fighting to stop the spread of Communism. After we came home Democrat politicians refused to resupply our South Vietnamese allies and allowed a weak, stupid enemy to take over. Jimmy Carter was the sorriest president this country ever had and Redford sounds just like him. Bill Clinton was the sorriest man ever to hold the office of president and his lamebrained statements about his country also resemble Redford's. I hope that very few folks are fooled into paying money to see such tripe as "Lions for Lambs" and this type of movie continues to fail at the box office.

If only people were educated. Educated in what? To his political beliefs? Basically what he is saying is if you don't follow my philosophy, you are not educated. Doesn't this sound like some of those totalitarian societies where they had (have) re-educational camps?

So, it seems that Robert Redford is saying that if we don't agree with his views that means we are ignorant, uneducated, simple people simply being led and misguided by evil politicians and inefficient schools? Wow, how conceited. Could it be that there are some people in this country who aren't completely enamored with the Britney's and Paris' of the world (and the Redfords for that matter), who know the issues and still don't agree with the liberal - yes liberal - views of Hollywood. Sorry Mr. Redford, I have been educated (as a History major) and I still don't agree with your views of this country.

What American highschools and colleges indeed need is critical education about the drives and attitudes of politicians and the impact of the media on so many vital and complex issues. Thank you, Redford, for trying to contribute to this eye-opening endeavor with the means you have.

If we set up some re-edukation kamps, we will have the kind of polity Redford wants for Amerika. Oh, wait, we already have the publik school system and the universities. We are getting broadly edukated.

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. Walter Lippmann

Haven't seen the movie; don't agree w/Redford's political views, but do agree American education is down the tube. The recent Voucher controversy is a perfect example (not the answer however). No one it seems is happy w/education but no one either knows how to fix it or the power to fix it. The UEA/NEA is not about children; it is about control and power to push their own liberal agenda. There are many broken parts to the education picture and unless it is fixed, I see eventually more children will be removed from public education to be home schooled for a multitude of reasons. Then it will be more than a voucher issue at hand.

We should not even be in the Iraqi theatre as you put it. All this is about is oil and money for the rich to get richer. We cant even take care of the poor and sick people in our own country yet we continue to funnel millions of our tax dollars into these foreign countries. I say enough is enough and lets start taking care of the people that built the United States and the people that continue to put money into this country.

It would appear that most of the previous comments prove Redford's point almost better than he could himself. Let's just hope that this isn't an accurate cross-section of educated comments in Utah.

First of all, I have been a lifelong Republican.

However, I think there is a lot of recent developments to be critical about. We now condone torture. We kidnap people on foreign soil. We hold secret grand juries who produce secret search warrants. This administration claims the right to open our mail, listen to our calls and probe our finances. We are holding people prisoner indefinitely without charge. We now let the wealthy take the property of those less financially powerful through the use of iminent domain.

I think every one of these practices would cause great sorrow for our founding fathers. I share Redford's sorrow for this country.

Unfortunately, much of the above development has been bipartisan, and I don't see anything in the leftist Hollywood vision of America's future that appeals to me in the least.

I hope few years out of power will cause the Republican party to return to it's roots.

Redford thinks being a popular movie star makes him an expert on everything. Most of these people are not educated. Of course education doesn't mean you have common sense. The Left always mentions McCarthy. The truth is, McCarthy was a lot more right than wrong. Just ask Eastern Europe and East Germany that were sold out by Communists in Roosevelt's administration. Hopefully the day will come when the truth will be told about that era. So far, its not politically correct. Robert Redford should speak about things of which he knows.

Sorry Bobby, we can't all be as enlightened as you, it's obvious. Perhaps if we all had tracts of green acres on mountains so we don't have to deal with the locals or reality, we might approach your wisdom. It's nice to see your ideas played out when you come down off the hill. Thanks for gracing us and thanks for giving us something to smile about.

My life's overarching quest is to someday be as wise and brilliant and as Robert Redford thinks he is.

Redford was plainly self-educated and his time in Europe seemingly colored his view of America and its institutions. I went to college and had plenty of professors whose politics were not my own. Just as Redford, I came to my political views in spite of my teachers not because of them. In short, even with my formal education, it has been my self-education that has brought me to where I am politically, not my formal education.

Funny. I felt the same way about shaking your hand...

One of the things most people learn as they mature is that similar people (even with the same educational background) can look at the same series of facts and honestly disagree about how to interpret them.

Are Americans undereducated? Who isn't?

Does that mean that even if we were all 'well-educated,' whatever that means, that we would all agree on the hot-button topics of the day?

Not on your life.

Look the Liberals and the conservatives both think the education system could be improved! Proof it stinks because if just one side were happy we would know that it was good(as long as it was my side because I have all of the answers and money but no time to donate :)(oh by the way bright ones I am being sardonic :)

I thought Kennedy and Johnson did. I thought Nixon pulled us out? I do not agree with the war but I support our troops and what they are trying to do.Men and women keep the faith and help who you can.