Sting condemns Iraq war
Rock star Sting today denounced the US-led invasion of Iraq and urged the world to help reconstruct the war-ravaged nation.
“I wasn’t in favour of going into Iraq,” the 52-year-old British singer said at a news conference in Hong Kong to promote his latest album, Sacred Love.
Sting said world leaders should now concentrate on “picking up the pieces,” and help give the Iraqi people a normal life.
“It’s too late to blame anybody. It’s too late to complain,” he said.
Sting’s comments echoed US guitarist Carlos Santana’s anti-war message at a Hong Kong rock concert on Saturday evening.
Ten songs into his 90-minute performance, Santana asked the crowd for 30 seconds of silence to condemn US President George W. Bush’s foreign policy, the English-language newspaper The South China Morning Post reported.
“We are the other side of America,” Santana was quoted as saying before an audience of 13,000 people.
“We do not go along with George Bush. We are here to accentuate peace and compassion on the planet. God bless humanity.”
Today, Sting also talked about one of his favourite pastimes, yoga.
“It makes your body flexible, and you become more flexible in the mind,” the former member of The Police rock band said. “You do not become rigid in your thinking or rigid in your physical body. So I am much more adaptable to change than I used to be.”
