Sean Penn Defends Baghdad Visit In New York Times Ad

AFP ^ | 5-30-2003

[blam]

Sean Penn defends Baghdad visit in New York Times ad

Fri May 30, 2:26 PM ET

NEW YORK (AFP) - Actor and anti-war activist Sean Penn answered controversy surrounding his December visit to Baghdad in a paid, full-page advertisement in The New York Times.

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Penn's sometimes philosophical, sometimes poetic comments ran under the title "Kilroy's still here." He justified his three-day visit to Baghdad, which some called treasonous.

He said the US-led invasion of Iraq was, "done without any credible evidence of imminent threat to the United States.

"Our flag has been waving, it seems, in servicing a regime change significantly benefiting US corporations."

"Our Secretary of State presented plagiarized evidence of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) in Iraq to the American people and the world," Penn wrote in reference to US Secretary of State Colin Powell 's justification for war before the United Nations Security Council.

"We see Bechtel, we see Halliburton," he said in reference to companies that have benefited from contracts to rebuild Iraq.

"We see no WMD's. We see dead young Americans. We see no WMD's. We see dead Iraqi civilians. We see no WMD's. We see chaos in the Baghdad streets. But no WMD's."

The actor, 42, ended his text with an appeal to readers to make their voices heard and vote.

[blam]

Someone needs to slap some sense into this creep.

[My2Cents]

Looks like a member of the Fedayeen Saddam.

[ThreePuttinDude]

"The actor, 42, ended his text with an appeal
to readers to make their voices heard and vote."

Gee dude, we did make our voices heard in the last elections
and will probably make them heard even louder in '04.....

[Mr.Atos]

Idiot doesn't even have the courage of conviction to blow himself up. Oh, but that he did...

[facedown]

I wish this jacka$$ would just take a long walk on a short pier.

[ExSES]

Idiot doesn't even have the courage of conviction to blow himself up. Oh, but that he did...

A "useful idiot" to "the cause" tries to redeem his image!

[VOA]

"We see no WMD's....

Poor Sean.
The loss of his Glock and the .38 revolver when his car was stolen has him
very, very depressed.

I guess a guy who can't hold onto his own "WMDs" probably would be obsessed
about not being able to find a couple of quart jars of weaponized anthrax
in a country bigger than Texas...

[Fifth Business]

plagiarized evidence of WMD

I think he means falsified, not plagiarized.

[martin_fierro]

Sean Penn Defends Baghdad Visit In New York Times Ad

"Hollywood Airhead Seeks Credibility Via Ad In Discredited Newspaper"

[loveitor..]

The mass graves and the tales of horror, abuse and atrocities mean nothing to a phony jerk like this guy. I'd like to personally kick his pseudo toughguy ass. Ignorance runs rampant in Hollywood.

[Howlin]

And he took 40,000 words to say it!

[riri]

Fancy meeting you here, Blam.

He looks like he is using heroin. I wonder if he is?

[Howlin]

Gee dude, we did make our voices heard in the last elections

And it's killing them.

[freekitty]

Does Sean Penn really think we care what he thinks?

[gc4nra]

So Brain-dead Sean; you would like see a German saurkraut manufacturer extract the oil from Iraq rather than an American oil expert and what, a French cheese maker rebuild the infrastructure rather than an American builder.

You are so GAwd-awful stupid, you make the dixie chicks look semi-intelligent!

[DPB101]

Wonder why Penn is alone on this. He, Norman Solomon, Reese Erlich and Howard Zinn have a book out on the subject ("Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You". Amazon rank:6,174). Where, also, are Mike Farrell,Jeanne Garofalo, Ed Asner and the rest of the fellow travelers ?

[sine_nomine]

I am thankful that he reminded me how little he needed to act in "I Am Sam." We should encourage these intellectualoids to pay money to dispense their views. No one has any excuse about paying money to see him in a movie. If I see his name on the poster, I will pass it by.

[Tacis]

Who bestowed the title "anti-war activist" on the schlump? Was it the ultra-left wing extremist media? The phrase should be replaced by "drug addicted, room temperature IQ fumble-butt" and "washed up actor." Why on earth does anyone have any more concern for what this guy says than what one of the wino homeless slobs on Market Street in San Francisco? It is only because the liberal media believes he has something to say. This kind of coverage should be recounted evry time some member of the left wing media conspiracy mumbles about the "conservatibe" media and talk radio.

[ThreePuttinDude]

"" We should encourage these intellectualoids
to pay money to dispense their views"

It cost him what? $56,00.00 to have people hear his first
line of crap, and this little rant was double that or there abouts...

[Davis]

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