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Actor Sean Penn Lashes Bush over Iraq War Drums (Reuters, 10/18/02)

Actor Sean Penn on Friday weighed in on the international debate over a possible war with Iraq, paying for a $56,000 advertisement in the Washington Post accusing President Bush of stifling debate and threatening civil liberties. [...]

"I beg you, help save America before yours is a legacy of shame and horror," Penn wrote...

We need your help deciding which is the more amusing aspect of this letter: (1) that by being published in a major American newspaper it refutes its own thesis; or, (2) the spectacle of someone who made the beast with two backs with Madonna talking about someone else having a "legacy of shame and horror"? Posted by Orrin Judd at October 18, 2002 1:15 PM