Neil Young: Impeach Obama

Photo Credit: Getty ImagesBy Al Weaver.

In an appearance Tuesday night on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young told host Stephen Colbert that President Barack Obama should be impeached for allowing fracking.

“Last time you were here, you tried getting me to sing a song about impeaching the president who at the time was George W. Bush,” Colbert told the rock legend. “And you wanted to impeach him over getting us into the war in Iraq.

“Now that President Obama is getting us into a war in Iraq, are you up for impeaching him too?” asked Colbert in his character as a conservative talk show host.

“No,” responded Young.

“Then you’re a double hypocrite?” asked Colbert.

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Neil Young: Environment more important than defeating ISIS terrorists

By Joe Newby.

The radical Islamic group ISIS is taking large areas of land in Iraq and Syria, enslaving women and beheading anyone with whom they disagree — even children. But those are secondary concerns as far as singer Neil Young is concerned, Canada’s Sun News reported Tuesday. What’s more important to Young is the impact a conflict with ISIS would have on the environment.

“We can do little things to fight climate change but our armed forces are the biggest carbon dioxide providers in the world, and yet we are fighting, what, ISIS?” he told Howard Stern over the weekend. According to Young, terror groups like al-Qaida and ISIS have smaller carbon footprints than Western militaries and their “big machines,” Sun News added.

“Since 1950 we’ve lost 90% of the fish in the ocean (and) we’ve doubled our own population,” he told Stern. “Since 1970, we’ve lost half the wildlife on the planet and again we’ve doubled our population.”

“And we are fighting these wars against these organizations and their carbon footprint has got to be like one percent of our huge army and our navy and all of this stuff that have with all our big machines,” he added, as though America’s foreign policy and national defense should be based solely on the carbon footprint of its military. “We’re doing more damage to the earth with our wars. And you try to find out? Hey, freedom? No, freedom, you don’t get it. You can’t find out what that carbon footprint is of the military. It’s not available for us.”

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