An Open Letter to the President...Four and a Half Years Later-Sean Penn

[IChing]

>>>>snip
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.>>>>snip

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-penn/an-open-letter-to-the-pre_b_44172.html

[crim son]

1. Whoa.

I love Mr. Penn.

[luckyleftyme2]

2. the real question

why aren't they in uniform? and what is the real reason? the english prince is in
uniform and in or on his way to iraq.
Really why isn't one of Bush's daughters representing our country?
Do I detect a double standard here?
prehaps the news media should point this out!

[Cha]

3. Sean Penn is speaking

my language in his open letter to the bushits after 4 years of this criminally insane war on Iraq and the American people and we can throw the Planet in there, too.

"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?!"

Senn Penn is so eloquently, passionate on inspiring us to ACT!

[alittlelark]

4. This is a great paragraph...

"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."