what were the odds of them being right? they didn t have daily briefings from the cia or daily access to intelligence, they didn t have any academic or professional training in war or diplomacy, but they figured it out and they were right. so was samuel l. jackson, jessica lange, tea leoni, wendy malek, tony shalub, lily tomlin, james whitmore, they were dismissed as hollywood lefties that didn t know what they were talking about, but they were right and everyone that dismissed them and called them names was wrong. susan sarandon was against the war, but her opposition was called just another one of her liberal causes. the decision to go to war in iraq was the most important decision that washington faced in the 21st century. when faced with that decision,