2nd act A year later, Sean Penn returns to Iraq and files a personal, candid report from the front

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, January 14, 2004 | Sean Penn, useless idiot

[presidio9]

Sean Penn went to Iraq a year ago not as an actor, but as a father, a husband and an American. He made the visit, from Dec. 13 to 15, 2002, to learn about the American-Iraqi conflict from the people who were living through it. A year later, the week before Saddam Hussein was captured, Penn returned to Iraq to find out how life had changed after the American invasion. What follows is his account of what he saw. .

[Prodigal Son]

But my 10-year-old son said rather quickly, "Could you get killed?" I immediately and idiotically responded with, "I could get killed crossing the street -- or struck by lightning -- and SARS, what about SARS?"

Interesting comment by Penn.

[billorites]

"I'm out of my mind."

[BellStar]

Mean of Bush to catch Saddam Hussein and pop this bubble heads bubble!

[BellStar]

"I'm out of my mind."


And league

[avg_freeper]

That boy couldn't find hay in a haystack. So who cares what he thinks he's found there?

[Rollee]

I will later witness this warm, broadly mustachioed man cradling a leukemia-ridden infant Iraqi boy, addressing him boisterously as "Cabron!" In my mind I am taken back 20 years, imagining this man lifting his own infant and addressing him as "Cabron!"

What does "cabron" mean? Is it a name that would be more appropriately applied to Ms. Penn? I could not read any more of this article.

[ClearCase_guy]

I went through the article twice. Here's a quick synopsis for you:

"blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, it was like being in a movie, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you'll never work in this town again, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, "

[facedown]

(Media Benjamin) She is a diminutive blonde with delicate features,...

I think she's Dennis Kucinich's soulmate.

[Drango]

I'm suprised some GI didn't frag him....

[xJones]

Ever since the bombing of the U.N. building in Baghdad in August, I had felt increasingly tugged toward Iraq.

Makes perfect sense to me, yada, yada, yad..........

[bmwcyle]

Killed - bad for his son but good for the country.

[Dallas59]

Did Pee in front of the cameras?

[Dallas59]

"he"

[Rummyfan]

Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of Global Exchange,

Is this woman also the founder of THINK PINK?

[armymarinedad]

As we race through Fallujah, I take selfish comfort in the sight of black smoke billowing in the aftermath of the recent shelling of a one-story building several hundred yards off the highway, figuring that the closest guerrilla fighters might currently be occupied or on the run from U.S. soldiers.

Typical liberal mindset."I hate the military except when they are protecting me."

[TheGunny]

....and well written too:o) ///sarcasm off///

[mtbopfuyn]

What was he on when he penn'd this rambling bunch of Me! Me! Me! Between his personal physician making home visits, mouth watering lamb chops washed down with a six-pack, and visions of his last ski trip did he ever get to Iraq?

[Dilbert56]

Hey Sean, "summarize" is a wonderful word. Explore the concept behind it someday. Geez - was this A-hole getting paid by the word?

[goodnesswins]

I believe so.