Sean Penn Quotes
Hollywood Actor
Political Activist Tyranny
Four and a half years ago,
I addressed the issue of war in an open letter to our President. Today
I would like to again speak to him and his, directly. Mr. President,
Mr. Cheney, Ms. Rice et al: Indeed America has a rich history of greatness
– indeed, America is still today a devastating military superpower.
And because, in the absence of a competent or brave Congress, of a mobilized
citizenry, that level of power lies in your hands, it is you who have
misused it to become our country's and our constitution's most devastating
enemy. You have broken our country and our hearts. The needless blood
on your hands, and therefore, on our own, is drowning the freedom, the
security, and the dream that America might have been, once healed of
and awakened by, the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
But now, we are encouraged
to self-censor any words that might be perceived as inflammatory – if
our belief is that this war should stop today. We cower as you point
fingers telling us to "support our troops." Well, you and the smarmy
pundits in your pocket, those who bathe in the moisture of your soiled
and bloodstained underwear, can take that noise and shove it. We will
be snowed no more. Let's make this crystal clear. We do support our
troops in our stand, while you exploit them and their families. The
verdict is in. You lied, connived, and exploited your own countrymen
and most of all, our troops.
You, Misters Bush and Cheney;
you, Ms. Rice, are villainously and criminally obscene people, obscene
human beings, incompetent even to fulfill your own self-serving agenda,
while tragically neglectful and destructive of ours and our country's.
And I got a question for your daughters, Mr. Bush. They're not children
anymore. Do they support your policy in Iraq? If they do, how dare they
not be in uniform, while the children of the poor; black, white, Asian,
Hispanic, and all the other American working men and women are slaughtered,
maimed and flown back into this country under cover of darkness.
Now, because I've been
on the streets of Baghdad during this occupational war, outside the
Green Zone, without security, and you haven't; I've met children there.
In that country of 25 million, these children have now suffered minimally,
a rainstorm of civilian death around and among them totaling the equivalent
of two hundred September 11ths in just four years of war. Two hundred
9/11s. Two hundred 9/11s.
You want to rattle sabers
toward Iran now? Let me tell you something about Iran, because I've
been there and you haven't. Iran is a great country. A great country.
Does it have its haters? You bet. Just like the United States has its
haters. Does it have a corrupt regime? You bet. Just like the United
States has a corrupt regime. Does it want a nuclear weapon? Maybe. Do
we have one? You bet. But the people of Iran are great people. And if
we give that corrupt leadership, (by attacking Iran militarily) the
opportunity to unify that great country in hatred against us, we'll
have been giving up one of our most promising future allies in decades.
If you really know anything about Iran, you know exactly what I'm referring
to. Of course your administration belittles diplomatic potential there,
as those options rely on a credibility and geopolitical influence that
you have aggressively squandered worldwide.
Speaking of squandering,
how about the billion and a half dollars a day our Iraq-focused military
is spending, where three weeks of that kind of spending, would pay the
tab on a visionary levy-building project in New Orleans and relieve
the entire continent of Africa from starvation and the spread of disease.
Not to mention the continued funds now necessary, to not only rebuild
our education and healthcare systems, but also, to give care and aid
to the veterans of this war, both American and our Iraqi allies and
friends who have lost everything.
You say we've kept the
war on terror off our shores by responding to a criminal act of terror
through state sponsored unilateral aggression in a country that took
no part in that initial crime. That this war would be fought in Iraq
or fought here. They are not our toilet. They are a country of human
beings whose lives, while once oppressed by Saddam, are now lived in
Dante's inferno.
My 15-year-old daughter
was working on a comparative essay this week (you can ask Condi what
a comparative essay is, as academic exercises fit the limits of her
political expertise.) My daughter's essay, which understood substance
over theory, discusses the strengths of the Nuremberg trial justice
beside the alternate strategy of truth and reconciliation in South Africa,
and I quote: "When we observe distinctions between one power and another,
one justice and another, we consider the divide between retribution
and reconciliation, of closure and disclosure." I can't do her essay
justice in this forum, but at its core, it asks how, when, and why we
compromise toward peace, punish for war, or balance both for something
more.
This may focus another
soft spot in the rhetoric of both sides. We're told not to engage in
the "politics of attack." To "keep away from the negative"... Well,
Mr. Bush, when speaking of your administration, that would leave us
silent, and impotent indeed.
So, in conclusion, I address
my remaining remarks to the choir: We all played nice recently at the
sad passing of former President Ford. Pundits and players on all sides
re-visited his pardoning of Richard Nixon with praise, stating that
a divided nation found unity. But what of that precedent on deterrence
now? Where is justice now? Let's unite, not only in stopping this war,
but holding this administration accountable as well. Without impeachment,
justice cannot prevail. In our time, or our children's. And let's make
it clear to democrats and republicans alike that we are not willing
to wait on '08 to hear them say again: "If I'd known then, what I know
now."
Even in a so-called victory,
what we saw yesterday was a House of Representatives that couldn't bring
itself to represent either conscience or constituents. It's a tragedy
that the Democratic Party's leadership in Congress refuses to allow
the House to vote on Barbara Lee's amendment for a fully funded, orderly
withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of this year. Elites
circled the war wagons against this proposal, and postponed the day
of reckoning that must come as soon as possible – a complete pullout
of U.S. military forces from Iraq.
There are presidential
candidates who understand this. We do have candidates of conscience.
As things stand today, I will be voting for Dennis Kucinich, who has
fought this war from the beginning. You might say Kucinich can't win.
Well, we have an opportunity to re-establish the credibility of democracy
as viewed by the world at large.
We can fire our current
president. We can choose the next president. You and me, the farmer
in Wisconsin, the boys at Google, and Bill Gates.
It's up to us to choose. Why don't we choose?!
Sean Penn's latest Bush
bash Transcript of actor's anti-U.S., pro-Iran rant Posted: March 27,
2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Sean Penn's remarks at Rep. Barbara Lee's March 24 Town Hall Meeting
on the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54891
"One could make the argument that George Bush is a good politician," Penn said at one point. Then he added: "I think the issue is how you define politician. Once upon a time, politics was the organization of things to benefit the people."
"So that's the level of
politician I think he's good at," Penn continued. "Out of context, he's
Beelzebub – and a dumb one."
Tuesday,
Sept. 12, 2006 4:08 p.m. EDT
Sean Penn: Bush Is 'Beelzebub'
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/12/161252.shtml?s=ic
James Hirsen Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005
"I
am more patriotic than this president we have, who I consider a traitor
of human and American principles.”
Sean Penn criticizes ‘comfortable cowards’
By Jeannette Walls with Ashley Pearson
MSNBC Updated: 2:55 a.m. ET Feb. 09, 2004
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4201707/
By Peter Baker Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, December 16,
2002
Among
his ridiculous comments, Penn criticizes FOX News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
and nationally syndicated radio host Howard Stern as more horrible than
Osama bin Laden, saying, "I'd like to trade O'Reilly for bin Laden,"
comparing him to Adolph Hitler, and calling him "an embraced pariah."
Yes,
this is the same Sean Penn who now tells
Talk, that Bush, "doesn't provoke thought or challenge my
head or my spirit. I don't think he does the country's either."
January
4, 2002
Worldnetdaily.com
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25926
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