PENN: 'PULL THE TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ NOW'

Last updated: Saturday, September 16, 2006

PENN: 'PULL THE TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ NOW'

Angry SEAN PENN has made a rare TV appearance to demand Americans fight to get their troops sent home from Iraq.

Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn at the 31st Annual Toronto International Film Festival - Premiere of 'All The King's Men'. Toronto, Canada - 10.09.06

The reclusive movie icon appeared on Thursday night's (14SEP06) LARRY KING LIVE show on international news channel CNN and stated he could see no worth in keeping US soldiers stationed in the Middle East warzone.

Penn, who hit headlines when he made two fact-finding missions to Iraq before the US invasion in 2003, insists PRESIDENT GEORGEW BUSH should follow former US leader RICHARD NIXON's example - when he pulled troops out of Vietnam - and seek "peace with honour."

A physically anxious Penn said, "I think the American people have a choice... It's about an eight to 10 year proposition of Iraqis and Americans and others dying in Iraq, the same amount will be dead of Iraqis innocent in 10 years without the Americans as there will with the Americans there; we'll just have more Americans dead.

"So, shamefully we have to... it's what Nixon called peace with honour to get out of Vietnam.

"I think that `cut and run' is something that's meant to make people feel like cowards if they do it. Well, we did make a mistake, it is time to pull our troops out.

"It's time to rebuild our military because we've got a bad world and they've (politicians) inflamed terrorism around the world... so what's happened there (in Iraq) is a civil war that's going to get worse with us or without us; it's time for us to strengthen ourselves and to try to help them through diplomacy and with money."

Source: WENN

| Saturday, September 16, 2006

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