“I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known.”

Bill Cohen, at his 1997 confirmation hearings to be

Clinton’s Defense Department Secretary

Like that long-ago ride on the back of her home-town bad boy’s motorcycle, I can imagine how Susan Sarandon may have gotten a little nostalgic thrill out of getting up close and personal with the bad boys at the World Workers Party and the United For Peace and Justice group, who hide behind a front organization called ANSWER but are groups of unreconstructed Stalinists whose websites openly support regimes like North Korea and Cuba and are underwriters of her star-studded “Not In Our Name” petition. Susan’s movie-industry anti-war comrade, Allen Michaan (subsequently referred to here as Al), is the owner of Oakland’s landmark, Grand Lake Theater, where his marquee’s message, No War for Oil, in effect, made the accusation that President Bush is a plunderer, bent on waging this war, not to take the battle to our enemies who conspire to kill us, but presumably to enrich a cabal of his oil company cronies. After our interview, I still support Al’s right to post his hardball message. More »