Sean Penn is a brave and bold American
 

<b>It's time to give this guy some credit. He stands up for what he believes in and refuses to let his acting career get in the way of the truth.

It is unpatriotic to remain silent when you believe your leaders have failed your country.

Sean Penn is a hero.
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Actor Sean Penn Bashes Bush, Iraq War in Newspaper
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Sean Penn published a 4,000-word open letter in the front section of the New York Times on Friday defending his December trip to Baghdad and criticizing the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

Penn would not comment on why he chose to place the full-page advertisement, preferring to "let the essay speak for itself," the actor's publicist Mara Buxbaum said.

Penn wrote that he was moved by a sense of patriotism to question the underlying purpose of U.S. policy to force out Saddam Hussein, who he described as a "beast among men."

"Our flag has been waving, it seems, in servicing a regime change significantly benefiting U.S. corporations," said Penn, questioning whether rebuilding the nation would benefit the "people of either Iraq or the United States."

Penn said U.S. claims that an invasion was necessary over fears of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were false.

"We found that our secretary of state presented plagiarized and fictitious evidence of WMD's in Iraq to the American people and the world," he wrote. "Any responsible person must ask, in whose hands our flag now waves and what perception the world may have of it in those hands."

Penn's agent declined to comment on how much the advertisement cost. A Times spokeswoman said the standard price for a full page ad in that section of the newspaper is about $135,000.

"We see Bechtel. We see Halliburton. We see Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld," Penn wrote. "We see dead Iraqi civilians. We see no WMDs. We see chaos in the Baghdad streets. But no WMDs. We see the disappearance of a murderous Iraqi dictator, who relented his struggle and ran without the use of WMDs."

Friday's piece was not the first Penn has placed in a major newspaper. He wrote an open letter to President Bush published in October 2002 by The Washington Post at a reported cost of $56,000, expressing his anti-war views and concerns about the administration's "intolerance of debate."

Penn wrote in the Times that following the October letter, "I was hit by a tidal wave of media misrepresentation, and even accusations of treason."

Plus he once beat a guy with a pillow case filled with soda cans.

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3 thumbs up!

Yes in America even a bad actor with an opinion can speak up against the government which protects their rights to free speach with the blood of brave men and women who care enough about evil and oppresion to put their lives on the line to stop it. Of course in Iraq those kind of people are still being dug up out of shallow graves by the thousands. People who spoke out against the brutal dictatorship of Saddam, men women and children are still being unearthed from shallow graves. Often entire families were thrown into prison, raped and tortured and forgotten by people who think if they just ignore evil everthing will be ok. Time and time again in recent history people like you have chosen to believe the radical lefts propaganda and as a result tens of millions of people have died. You have a short memory. Between Hitler, Stallin and Mao over a hundred million people have died from evil brutal totalitarianism. It was only when brave Americans, Brittish and Russians said they would not turn their face away from evil that evil was defeated. You sound like you'd be happy to let those people continue to starve and die tortured in Saddams prisons. Penn is a pinhead and so are you if you think hes a hero!

Id be happier if you could bleet a little louder.

"Letter to Sean Penn, A.K.A. ''Saddam's Pinhead''"

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/co...y.asp?aid=2911

Do you write for " Harlequin" ???

"Dveron"

Were your parents drunk when they named you?

This " article" looks like a stew: take everything and throw it together even if it DOESN'T fit... 9/11 and Iraq??? Please!

SP traitor ? Dissident opinion are now motivation to call someone a traitor?

The deads are dead because Bush sent them, not SP.

Stupid article!

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God loves proud bold americans....

Sean Penn gets props. Fuck the haters. The truth always hurts.

Bahamas in the house.

Madonna couldn't stand the pussy

Representin'

Hehe :thumbsup

He was dumb enough used by the Iraquis as a propaganda tool ....
then he bitched and moaned when the public reaction
was negative and effected his marketability.

He is irrelevant, as is his opinion.

Sean Putz should really stick to (improving) his acting.

dont think he is a horrible actor

carlitos way
fast times at ridgemont high

Says the mighty important TGP pusher.

"I'm really kinda busy right now"

- Fast Times at Ridgemont High

If he is against the war, he is an horrible "everything"....

Only Dennis " who the fuck was he" Miller is good!

PS: Dead man walking: lousy actor???

couldn't care less about his opinion but he is not a bad actor. Far from it.