(Not much of a "debating" issue as more as an announcement of an upcoming project for which I believe to be a good cause.)
Ever since "escaping" the Moonlighting tv show, Bruce Willis has done nothing but impress me, both in television and in real life. Unlike using his fame and tv access to stand there and rant about politics, he constantly travels the world visiting our troops, performing for them with his band, and sticking up for them whenever he can. He is now taking his support for the troops to the next level:
"Bruce Willis comes out fighting for Iraq’s forgotten GI heroes"
ANGERED by negative portrayals of the conflict in Iraq, Bruce Willis, the Hollywood star, is to make a pro-war film in which American soldiers will be depicted as brave fighters for freedom and democracy.
It will be based on the exploits of the heavily decorated members of Deuce Four, the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, which has spent the past year battling insurgents in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul.
Willis attended Deuce Four’s homecoming ball this month in Seattle, Washington, where the soldiers are on leave, along with Stephen Eads, the producer of Armageddon and The Sixth Sense.
The 50-year-old actor said that he was in talks about a film of “these guys who do what they are asked to for very little money to defend and fight for what they consider to be freedom”.
Unlike many Hollywood stars Willis supports the war and recently offered a $1m (about £583,000) bounty for the capture of any of Al-Qaeda’s most wanted leaders such as Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri or Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, its commander in Iraq. Willis visited the war zone with his rock and blues band, the Accelerators, in 2003.
“I am baffled to understand why the things I saw happening in Iraq are not being reported,” he told MSNBC, the American news channel.
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Good! It is a pity we don't have more actors like him in Hollywood.
