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Revision as of 15:41, 16 December 2002 by Koyaanis Qatsi (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Sean Penn is a U.S. film actor. Born to director Leo Penn, who was blacklisted during McCarthyism for refusing to testify, Penn was eventually was nominated for Academy Awards for I Am Sam and Dead Man Walking and has starred in over 40 movies.
On October 18, 2002, Penn placed an $56,000 advertisement in the Washington Post asking President Bush to end a cycle of violence. It was written as an open letter and referred to the planned attack on Iraq and the War on Terror. In the letter, Penn also criticised the Bush administration for its "deconstruction of civil liberties" and its "simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil." Penn visited Iraq briefly in December 2002, largely eschewing meetings with the press.