Hollywood takes swipes at Bush, Iraq war [View All]

HOLLYWOOD (AFP) - Sunday's Oscars was an opportunity for Hollywood stars to slam President George W. Bush and the US-led war in Iraq.

The first salvo came from master of ceremonies Billy Crystal, who opened the show with a reminder about the first Oscar show he hosted 13 years ago.

"Everything was so different," the comic said. "Bush was president, the economy was tanking and we'd just finished a war with Iraq."

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Sean Penn, who won the best actor award for "Mystic River," took a shot at the Bush administration's failure to find Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction.

"If there's one thing that actors know -- apart from the fact that there were no WMDs -- is that there are no bests in acting," he said.

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