[eastforker]

Y'all say what you will but I don't find this article offensive. Yes it is self centered, I agree, but I found nothing anti-war or anti-american. I was expecting a lot worse.

[Marak]

I was expecting a lot worse.

I agree. I kept waiting for the punch line. Maybe it will be in the next segment, but I found the article interesting as it portrayed the situation through his eyes. I know what I expected him to say and didn't find it. It makes me curious why not.

[eyespysomething]

Me too.

[eyespysomething]

I wish these people would use their, ahem, "talents" to maybe, say, raise money to rebuild schools in Iraq? Help stock hospitals? Buy school supplies? Something anything. But they seem so hellbent on telling us what is wrong, about bad things (although, like I said, it is not what I expected to read, shockingly not), that they can't shut up and do something to help.

So Sean'll go back home after more Ambien induced sleep, and work to get Bush out of office, and be overpaid for crappy movies, when if anyone else had been in office, he wouldn't be able to do what he just did: talk to free Iraqis.

Notice no credit where credit is due. He almost did, at one point, credit America, but there is no way in HELL any of these lefty Hollywood types would ever say that Iraq is better off now that President Bush liberated the Iraqi people.

[hobbes1]

I agree with you.

[Gippers Brigade]

Yeah, but he's got a lot of nerve by flying half way around the globe to experience the situation first-hand. Jeez, he must hate America as much as Howard Dean.

[ironmaidenPR2717]

"I was expecting a lot worse."

I, too, expected a diatribe about how exploitive the U.S. presence has been over there. Obviously, he wasn't snarling like the usual rabid peace-lib. I did sense, however, that he was almost disappointed to find a much better standard of living there than he expected. It appears that nothing happened (thanks to the orderly protection of our military)to allow him to present himself as either tragically heroic or morally outraged. Poor Sean - no fodder for his next movie. (Of course, there's still part deux.)

[Burkeman1]

Me too. A few soft peddled sort of lefty remarks- but all in all not that bad. While reading it I kept expecting some ridiculous left wing cliche to be dropped. I was actually suprised that he knew who Pol Pot was and that he was evil. Not a great piece of work- but he didn't make an ass out himself.