Penn is very gullible
Before I even begin to address the OP, I confess right now I am biased against Penn for his aid and comfort to the enemy. I despise him as I would despise any friend of Hitler.
Abu Abbas the master mind of the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the Achille Lauro was caught in Baghdad after Saddam fled.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/15/sprj.irq.abbas.arrested/
Saddam was well known for funding suicide bombers, part of the war effort was "the global war on terror" that Saddam was a part of.
As far as WMD's? if GW was lying so was an awful lot of Democrats!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp
The truth is we may never know for sure since Sandy Berger stole sensitive documents prior to the 911 commission study.
The WaPo spins the Berger theft as simply a cover up for Bill Clinton's knowledge of Iraqi plans of U.S terrorism (which is pretty bad)
I feel we will never know for sure, which is why I find the 911 report dubious.
Thanks to Sandy, we may never know the truth about WMD's in Iraq
maybe they were shipped to Syria, maybe still hidden, maybe all those Democrats and world leaders and intelligence agencies from multiple countries were simply lying.
Penn is what Lenin regarded as "useful idiots" liberal simpletons who believe whatever they are told if it fits into their world view.
Lenin's "useful idiots" would tell people in the old days that famine and genocide were not happening in the USSR, we now know better.
Penn is a disgusting traitor and friend to genocidal madmen.