Penn launches verbal attack on Bush

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Oscar-winning Hollywood actor Sean Penn, who has been assisting rescue efforts in New Orleans, has launched a scathing attack on President Bush.
He said the US government did not "seem to be inclined to help". "We were pulling drowning people out of the water, it's the ultimate distress and human suffering ... dead bodies," he told GMTV. Penn said he had spent nine hours yesterday searching the water for people and during all that time he saw just three boats carrying US officials.

"There are people that are dying right now and I mean babies and old people and everybody in between - they're dying. "I don't think anybody ever anticipated the criminal negligence of the Bush administration in this situation."
Penn, who has spent time filming in the area in the past, said the US national guard were doing a "fantastic job" but there just were not enough of them.

"The US government doesn't seem to be inclined to help, nearly on the level that has to happen," he said. "We need doctors at every launch place, not only for the rescuees but for the rescue workers because as we come in off the boats, which are contaminated by that water, a lot of these people are disoriented, you can't get the boats right up so you have to go into the water.

"Sometimes the helicopters overhead, with all their good intentions, can sometimes make for difficulties. They often draw us to where people are, so you see where a helicopter is overhead but when you get there it's churning the water so much that people are going under."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/06092005/344/penn-launches-verbal-attack-bush.html

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1. The heart and soul of this man really impresses me

[xchrom]

2. criminal negligance indeed.

can we make it stick?

[OhioChick]

3. I was impressed yesterday

when I heard that he was there helping with the rescue efforts.

[Don Claybrook]

4. How could anyone have known?

The idiots in charge just love that rhetorical question. And now Sean Penn has provided the perfect counterpoint:

"I don't think anybody ever anticipated the criminal negligence of the Bush administration in this situation."

[slor]

5. Sean Penn is an Amercan Hero...

He forever smashed any notion of just being a spoiled rich movie star, when I read his review of a Russian anti-war movie "Come and See" (Idi I Smotri). He has always only impressed me, ever since.

[Jon8503]

6. And Castro has offered over 1000 doctors to help with this disaster but

the US Gov will not even respond to the offer.

[evolvenow]

7. I heard that his friends needed rescue and no help, so he went, and saved

them and many others. He is a fantastic human being. Smart, compassionate and expresses his truth profoundly.

[MadeinOhio]

8. Sean Penn knows the truth!

Call out and demand his resignation, spread the fire, never step away or stop.