The Arrogant, the Misguided and the Cowards...By Sean Penn

[IChing]

The Arrogant, the Misguided and the Cowards
Out of Iraq, Out with Bush

By Sean Penn

10/04/06 "Counterpunch' -- -- The arrogant, the misguided, the cowards would argue that an immediate pull-out of our troops from Iraq would inspire lack of confidence and the lost credibility of the United States. President Bush and his functionaries indeed have lost enormous credibility for the perception of our country internationally. Perhaps more damaging than that, they have created the greatest cultural, religious, and political divide domestically since our own Civil War.

We the people of the United States have a unique opportunity. We can show each other and the world that what the Bush administration claims is their mission is not ours. And, by leading our country as a citizenry and demanding of our government an immediate end to our own military and profit investments in Iraq, display for the entire world that democracy is a government of the people. What more powerful message to send the world than that we ourselves can choose in policy, in peace, and in humanitarian support.

In fascism, one serves the State. Let's show the world that with democracy, we can make the State do our bidding, and that such bids would not be the blind ones, given exclusively to the friends of power. But rather, the domain of the people of freedom everywhere. This is an administration that advocates torture, deceives the public, spends billions of dollars on a failed war. This is an administration where in the year of Katrina, Exxon Mobil claimed the highest profit margin in the history of world business. It is an administration that belittles, demeans, deceives, and indeed kills our brothers, our sisters, our sons, and our daughters.>>>>>snip

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15218.htm

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. K & R

[stepnw1f]

2. Excellent (nt)

[Little Star]

3. If only it were so........... n/t

[marmar]

4. Jeff Spiccolli, Mr. Hand would be proud!!!

(My apologies to those who've never seen "Fast Times at Ridgemont High")

K&R!

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

5. Yes!

Well said, Mr. Penn

[roamer65]

6. I was impressed way back by his performance

in the film "Falcon and the Snowman". He is "dead-on" with this assessment, I wish he was in the Senate saying it...

[omega minimo]

7. Just that first paragraph is brilliant. I met SP. He is For Real.

Thanks IChing. Love your posts.


oh yeah K & R!!!!!!!!!!

[bdamomma]

8. right on Sean Penn

[texpatriot2004]

9. Way to go Sean. Right on. nm

[readmoreoften]

10. He composed this letter as his statement for the World Can't Wait.

meeting this past Monday. Actor Mark Ruffalo read it because he couldn't be there. I was at the meeting. It was powerful. He's a good man.

[Pachamama]

11. He's a neighbor of mine....

:hug:

[IChing]

12. To me, the title says it..The Arrogant, the Misguided and the Cowards

and the ones left
from the left
that are left.

[theHandpuppet]

13. K&R!!

Support democracy -- oppose the Bush regime!