Willis film to show diehard GIs 'fighting for freedom'

Willis film to show diehard GIs 'fighting for freedom'
Sarah Baxter, Washington
November 28, 2005

ANGERED by negative portrayals of the Iraq conflict, actor Bruce Willis is to make a pro-war film in which US 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 Willis's films Armageddon and The Sixth Sense.

The 50-year-old actor said 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 $US1million ($1.35million) bounty for the capture of any of al-Qa'ida's most-wanted leaders such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, its commander in Iraq


http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17383054%255E601,00.html

You don't have to dislike him intensely (as I do) to realize how ill-timed this is.

Quick, someone send him some enlistment papers.

Hey, I'm sure some branch of the Armed Forces would take him...

this class B flick.

.

Sorry, I just had to give away the plot to the entire movie in case some unwitting DU'er were to waste nine dollars.

here goes:

Bruce Willis holding an M-16, running with sweat glistening on his half naked body and the Middle Eastern sun glowing off his bald head.
Occasionally he shoots and swears.

The End

soldiers' opinions of this guy. He sure does love to play military dress up in his filmsl MKJ

and stop playing in you phoney make believe world

take him today though, recruitment being what it is.....

"I had been looking for an opportunity to serve my country for a long time. I had mentioned to my friends that I wanted to volunteer as far back as the Gulf War to go into the military. My friends laughed at me and told me I was too old to join and the military wouldn't take me. I looked into it and they were right: I was too old. The idea of serving my country remained in my mind.

IIRC 35 was the max then, and they can certainly grant waivers. Apparently he asked his "friends", not anyone actually involved in the recruiting process.

So, yeah, Bruce you tried real hard to get in didn't you? Your desire to serve was so strong, you asked your friends about it.

SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING CHICKENHAWK PIECE OF SHIT!!

He tried to enlist after 9/11 but was denied due to age. Try and keep up m'kay?

did I fail to keep up with? That started in January of '91, did it not?

If you're going to insult the guy, at least get it right. Or do you believe everything that gets written here as fact? Do some of your own research. Why does it bother you if he does something that isn't how you feel anyway? I find it amusing that probably over 90% of Hollywood is on-the-record anti-Bush, but this one guy wants to do something from the other perspective and he's all of a sudden a crap actor. It's so predictable though.

"I had been looking for an opportunity to serve my country for a long time. I had mentioned to my friends that I wanted to volunteer as far back as the Gulf War to go into the military. My friends laughed at me and told me I was too old to join and the military wouldn't take me. I looked into it and they were right: I was too old."

Let's examine the Gulf War timeline and consider BW's eligibility to enlist at various milestones in that war. Operation Desert Shield (the logistical build-up to what would become Operation Desert Storm, the Gulf War) began in August 1990. Bruce Willis was 35 at the time and eligible for service. Operation Desert Storm (the air campaign over Iraq) began in January 1991 - BW was still 35. Operation Desert Sabre, the ground war phase, began in late February 1991 - BW was still 35. In fact, Bruce Willis was still eligible to enlist at the time of Operation Desert Farewell, which began March 1991.

So the evidence shows BW was a classic chickenhawk - all mouth, no action.

I Miss Bubba wrote "Willis never spoke about the first Iraq War", when the BW quotation in question clearly refers to the Gulf War.

Does IMB not understand that the first Iraq War and the Gulf War (to which Willis referred in the quotation) are in fact, one and the same?

means that particular block of text is a quote. Hey IMB, try to keep up, m'kay?

The guy can't act. His political viewpoints have nothing to do with it.

And if you'd care to search the archives, when the lists of right-wing people who get paid to act even though they can't come out, they traditionally have Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone on them.

And yes, there are plenty of liberals in Hollywood who can't act--Tom Cruise and John Travolta prominent among them.

he's a Has-Been and quite frankly I'm tired of looking at him.
They wore him out on film years ago!

I had been looking for an opportunity to serve my country for a long time. I had mentioned to my friends that I wanted to volunteer as far back as the Gulf War to go into the military. My friends laughed at me and told me I was too old to join and the military wouldn't take me. I looked into it and they were right: I was too old.

www.brucewillis.com/difference/

He "wanted" to enlist, but didn't really try.

Edited to add: I just noticed someone else had "done the research."

Or, to use a term more familiar to you. in before the ZOT!!!

I went to bed too early last night...

if he believes in this cause

He always postures in front of class saying how he would join the military, but he's just a few years to old. Total demagogue bs, makes me sick, I bet the military would accept him now, i should tell him.

and give it to the people in Walter Reed Hospital.

Just because he rubs up against "Deuce Four" doesn't mean he's a badass. :eyes:

Maybe you should go visit the troops. Tell them they're doing a good job and helping the country. They need that.

Stateside, we don't need another puff piece. Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman were all the pro-war crowd had, and neither of those stories were anything but fiction. That's the best they could do for a war that's 2000 soldiers deep. Go figure.

And by the way, is Barry Sadler still alive? Maybe he and Lee Greenwood could do the soundtrack.

Has anyone ever had a voice shriller than Lee Greenwood's? "God bless the YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHSSSSSSSS AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE."

John Ashcroft's "song," "Let the Mighty Eagle Soar" should be in there somewhere. Phil Gramm, who invested in "Truck Stop Women" "Beauty Queens" and "White House Wedding" could handle the financing.

'Am being told that I forgot to throw in Toby Keith.

I guess he'd be somewhere in this bunch, too.

You can't get enough class in these right-wing projects! It's their special gift.

http://www.sizemoremusic.com/sadler_history.htm

Lee Greenwood, unfortunately is still alive.

your 'unfortunately' with Lee Greenwood. Nancy Reagan evidently loved his music.

And there it is, huh?

the aisles of Wal-Marts from sea to shining sea, over laptops and Toby Keith CDs and such.

to quote Lewis Black on the change of enlistment standards, "That's not a bald spot on his head, it's a fucking solar panel for a killing machine".

too bad your president doesn't care:

"I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him... I truly am not that concerned about him." - Press Conference, 3/13/02.

Maybe they can make a bunch of CGI Osama Bin Ladins and WMDs.

ON EDIT: I hope it's better than The 5th Element

LMAO!

Perfect.

this article mentions the contractor Scott Helveston who died in Fallujah...

Yon, 41, went to Iraq after a friend from high school, Scott Helveston, a former navy Seal, was hanged from a bridge in Fallujah in an incident that shocked the world.




http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4651943/

LOS ANGELES - After serving 12 years in the Navy, Scott Helvenston started a career as a fitness instructor and worked as trainer and stunt man for such movies as “Face/Off” and “G.I. Jane.”

He helped prepare actress Demi Moore for her role as the first woman to join the Navy SEALs in “G.I. Jane,” and appeared on two reality series: “Man vs. Beast” and Burnett’s “Combat Missions.”


http://www.ahafilm.info/movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=7472

The Seal vs. the Chimp:

The traditional obstacle course used to train Army, Navy and Marine professionals was the setting for this race between a Navy Seal and a Chimpanzee. Two chimps, Jonah and Jacob, were prepped for several days prior to the actual contest and were familiar with the sequence and the obstacles involved. The course consisted of a wooden wall, rope climb, balance beam, netting wall, rope swing, crawl tunnel, wooden wall with a rope climb, and monkey bars. All of the obstacles were well-built and chimp-friendly. The chimp most comfortable and agile on the obstacles was chosen for the on-camera race. Trainers were on hand walking near the chimp and signaling encouragement from the finish line. Since many of these “obstacles” are actually behavioral enrichment to a chimp, it came down to a contest of competitive spirit and speed.

the pathetic 1968 John Wayne Vietnam war movie Green Berets.

I remember when that movie came out, too. I wonder if Willis' will be as awful?

and a bullet still couldn't find his fat ass.

Is timing on this film is somehow a few months late considering the sagging poll numbers of Bush.


If it is to support the troops, he should donate his awesome $$'s for some body armor or sit with their families during the sad times.

nt

"These guys who do what they are asked to for very little money"

It's the administration that is a bunch of chickenhawk cowards who refuse to pay the military decent wages because they are too busy giving tax cuts to haliburton.

Maybe he can put some lipstick on that pig. But I think it's still going to look like a pig and smell like death without any reason other than corporate greed, and whole set of mental disorders in a human chimp with a teeny little alcoholic brain.

Gyre

"If you guys vote for Al Gore, you're out of your minds... Gore's a knucklehead... just the lying and the mendacity of the last eight years of the regime that Al Gore was part and parcel of...

...I mean, there is only so much lying the American people will take before they go, 'Uh, this doesn't seem like a good idea.' You have to look at what he does and what he stands for." - BW

http://www.jerseygop.com/GOP-dude5.html

Isn't that how he's made all his money?

GOP = GUNS Over PEACE

Dems are anti-guns..

and why Willis's career wouldn't exist !

and the troops that serve.

there's always some fatal flaw.

oh yeah, it's the republican part.

Funniest non-comedy I ever saw.

Had just returned from 'Nam prior to viewing it. Laughed through the whole damn thing.

War is NEVER clean. It's a horrible mess filled with violence and death. There is nothing clean and glamourous about it. Just see (God Bless Them) Greenday's music video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends". The last scene shows (graphically) the real horrors of war. You would never EVER see that come out of Nashville (Country "Music"-devolved).

Willis is another GOP pig. A B-Grade 'actor' who made his millions (easy money)selling violence and death to the masses, just like his fellow PARASITES Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone (both GOP shills).

Again, why I proudly boycott "artists" who's political views I disagree with.


Bruce, ENLIST if you think the war is so good!!!!

what a tool......

I want him on tomorrows list.

mail@democraticunderground.com and make sure the subject line is "conservative idiot"

Bad movie...horrible showing at the box office...considered a joke today

No one thinks the Gi's and Marines et al dying in Iraq aren't doing the dirty work. Where we disagree is no matter how many of them die it doesn't do a thing to a) ensure our freedom here in America or b)ensure the Iraq people will be able to live in peace.

It's not about wrapping ourselves in the flag and proclaiming our patriotism. But you know what? Talking to those who believe like you is pointless. I pray your film does not influence a young person to join the armed forces.

In the end, you are a shill for multi-national corporatism and wrong thinking American foriegn policy.

...it will do very poorly in the theaters. Most people are fully aware that we're not fighting for anything in Iraq except a chance to lose more people and kill more Iraqis.

I have a problem with that statement beyond my dislike of Bruce. Are the majority of those fighting in Iraq doing so because they consider this a fight for freedom? Are they there perhaps because it is the position that a corrupt government has put them in?
This isn't a John Wayne movie Bruce. This is an illegal and unpopular war being fought by
the sons and daughters of those who pay to support your obscene tax shelters. Make a movie about the dead,injured,deformed and mentally scarred. Don't glorify this obscenity you POS.

"How The Pentagon Shapes and Censors Movies"

Pretty interesting.

Wait. He's like ronald reagan was. Better off not being a real man; but showing others how it's done, is that it?

Unlike Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, James Arness, etc.

I wonder if Daddy Bruce is going to encourage her to join the Army and see the world?

eom

an American failure of a war.

Now who is rewriting history?

with "freedom".

Never had, never will.

As the John Wayne movie, The Green Berets, did?

Quite appropriate, really.

since GI's have fought for freedom, at least with a definition of freedom on which most would agree. "Freedom" has become a knee-jerk word pulled out each time some shady deal is going down. And if there is a place where freedom would be in dire need to be fought for at tbis point in history, that would be right here. Long live to the 101 who went down south to shut up segregationists! Long live to the GIs who fought against the older version of fascism in Europe!

:kick:

Also:

what a pretender. He forgot he was an actor and that he hasn't really seen combat. :puke:

on this.... :rofl:

may your film meet the high standard of "The Green Berets".

:sarcasm:

I suppose this one will be too. It's doubtful that many people will pay ten bucks to see pro-war propaganda, though.

John Wayne ducked WWII, as far as I recall.

... As Garry Wills tells the story in his book John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity (1997), the Duke faced a tough choice at the outset of World War II. If he wimped out, don't be so sure a lot of us wouldn't have done the same.

At the time of Pearl Harbor, Wayne was 34 years old. His marriage was on the rocks but he still had four kids to support. His career was taking off, in large part on the strength of his work in the classic western Stagecoach (1939). But he wasn't rich. Should he chuck it all and enlist? Many of Hollywood's big names, such as Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and Clark Gable, did just that. (Fonda, Wills points out, was 37 at the time and had a wife and three kids.) But these were established stars. Wayne knew that if he took a few years off for military service, there was a good chance that by the time he got back he'd be over the hill.

Besides, he specialized in the kind of movies a nation at war wanted to see, in which a rugged American hero overcame great odds. Recognizing that Hollywood was an important part of the war effort, Washington had told California draft boards to go easy on actors. Perhaps rationalizing that he could do more good at home, Wayne obtained 3-A status, "deferred for dependency reasons." He told friends he'd enlist after he made just one or two more movies.

The real question is why he never did so. Wayne cranked out thirteen movies during the war, many with war-related themes. Most of the films were enormously successful and within a short time the Duke was one of America's most popular stars. His bankability now firmly established, he could have joined the military...

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_004.html

I settled for the first source that came along because I already knew he didn't serve.

He could see the complexity of his own life and choices as far as service goes, but not recognize the same in others (especially around Viet Nam). He became an icon for a lot of war supporters, yet never acknowledged the contradiction of that (as far as I know). I suspect that he might have been a lot more nuanced about things if he had actually been in the army during wartime, and seen what it was like firsthand.

For what its worth, my dad was about the same age as John Wayne when he enlisted during WWII (1941, Canadian Army). He said his reasons for doing so were complex - social pressure on single men, the depression wasn't really over in a lot of places (including Alberta), distaste for Hitlerism, and simple desire for adventure. Like many of his generation, he grew to hate war but had mixed feelings about the actual experience of WWII.

precisely because of the guilt of not having enlisted when it was time. And he felt guilty because he knew that he had chickened out and probably not for noble reasons, or there would not be guilt. It's called over-compensation and you can see it at work with Mr. Willis as well, probably for similar reasons.

is something I hadn't thought about. Makes sense, though.

Wouldn't be surprised to find them all buddies.

Anyway, the only fans you have left are too cheap to hit the concession stand and when the distributors see that the release will be fruit fly duration.

He's been a big question mark to me since the Moonlighting Days --- WHAT ON EARTH DO PEOPLE SEE IN THIS UGLY, UNTALENTED, SELF-GLORIFYING ASS?

it was hilarious.

Enquiring minds want to know.

getting the hospitals "opened back up"??? So they were open at one time, tsk tsk tsk Brucey.... your choice of words is poor at best.

exploded. No one remembers how or why. But it's a good thing the US of A is there to fix it all up again!! Yay!

What a tough guy. Instead of actually enlisting, he's making a movie about being in the military. In Bruce's world, it must be the same thing. Just like in RW world, slapping a yellow ribbon on your car and a flag on your window is the same as supporting the troops.

Fuck you, Bruce Willis.

Idiot.

Tsk tsk. A shame, a shame.

What you wanted to see.

I wish I had the awesome power of Republican blinders.

Seems he can't make a flick anymore unless it has military uniforms in it. Regrettable, because I've enjoyed (most of) his movies- I believe him to be a natural actor of great talent. I'm just embarassed for the recent choices he's made in this arena.

Perhaps he and Arnie boy should get together and reopen Planet Hollywood-- nah... on second thought, they'd just fuck it up all over again...

:evilgrin:

edit: to make it non-gender specific.

until you're back in your right mind....

(Just kidding... :evilgrin: )

NOT edited to make it non-gender specific, because it's not something I worry too much about.

When do you think you can have the papers drawn up?

but now I understand why she broke up with the guy. They are political opposites. I remember her reaction when she saw 911 made People magazine for some reason. (not sure why it should have mattered to anyone) but it is kind of interesting.

Let's hope he at least puts some level of complexity in the film?

Deadliest war for reporters -- they can't even walk down the street and have a cup of coffee much less report on GWBs new happy-happy bombed out Iraq.

What an idiot.

He knows the children are suffering without medicine.
He knows there's depleted uranium in the soil that has caused birth defects.
He knows Saddam was no threat.
He knows we used cluster bombs.
He knows we are torturing people.
He knows he's doing the world a disfavor.

It'll backfire on him.

The torture?
The mass killing of innocent Iraqi's?
The mass extinction of entire villages and towns?
The continual lies on how everything is just peachy?

I stopped watching or listening to this repuke after Moonlighting went off the air.

"They`re getting the schools opened up. They`re getting hospitals opened back up."

Assuming this is true, (which is a bigger leap of faith than I'm willing to make), how does restoring what we destroyed become a symbol of progress?

Sounds like a blockbuster in the making.

I'm a younger guy so I had no idea Willis was a Repuke, and I consider myself pretty pop culture savvy. It's kinda funny how the conservatives in Hollywood keep a low profile.

Arnie, Sly, and The Rock are.

A Latino from Bethlehem PA is a Republican? Man, money changes people.

The Catholic/social conservative thing, I guess.

Most Puerto Ricans are Dems, but many Mexicans and Cubans are Republicans. I'm from Southern NJ, right by Philly, and my whole family still lives there, and they are in these Freeper Catholic political clubs that have loads of Hispanics in them... although very, very few Puerto Ricans.

I suspect the same is a true a few miles over the river in PA.

At least in CA they're not. Cubans on the other hand...

They have seen what happens when any one side gets too powerful and all balance is lost.

Democrats aren't Communists so there's really no comparison

That's kinda weird actually. I wonder why that's the case

Which kind of makes it worse, actually.

best in golf and wrestling? What can't half black half pacific islanders do?

And explain to us, oh great-and-wise Bruce, why repainting schools, reopening hospitals, and turning the power back on is such an amazing anaccomplishment, WHEN WE'RE THE REASON THE SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND UTILITIES WERE SHUT DOWN IN THE FIRST PLACE! :argh:

And since when have you or anyone else seen Americans not supporting the troops?

I know that Harrison Ford is starring in a movie about the Marine Corps assault on Fallujah. Isn't he a dem?

ill have to wait and see

Check out his political contributions:

www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Harrison_Ford.php

War has always been a subject for the arts.

Like that silly counter F9/11 movie.

Bruce,

On the off chance that you are reading DU I wanted to say a film about the courage of our soldiers fighting for each other in the midst of war they really can't comprehend the reasons for could be very great. With a little bit of nuance you have the opportunity to confound us here on DU and your smirking left-wing critics everywhere. Cheerlead for Bush and we'll all chortle with loathsome left-wing arrogance. Do our soldiers proud and astonish us.

A Journey That Ended in Anguish (Col. Ted Westhusing's 'suicide' in Iraq)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1950262

I'd pay to see that.

Yes, Willis is a * loving twit but by the time he makes this and gets it released we will be half way home understanding we didn't HELP the Iraq's..People are asking NOW...Why did we go in? The man is a moran.I hope the Feds are financing his war film otherwise someone is going to lose their arse

Have-more's?!?

No.

Have-lesses & have-not's (as usual with the "Worst-than-Enron" criminals in charge).

the feds have money in their budget for the prapaganda machine..it would be a great recruiting tool:sarcasm:

that melted buses and trains full of civilians? Or how about the firestorms of white phosphorous in Fallujah?

and paid for by the U.S. Service Forces. Another class "B" flick.

Willis sounds like he's losing brain cells with each follicle of hair.

opposition to the occupation has nothing to do with the troops' bravery. Who doubted the bravery of the US troops?

Oh well, I suppose it's best not to pay too much attention to the half-wit movie promotions that emerge. This sounds like the politicization of The Passion of the Christ that emerged during the run-up to the war - it became a "republican" movie.

It is more important to be macho than it is to be right.

When Democrats speak out against the war he's avoiding Colonel Bubp (Bruce Willis) drops his stapler and swings into action, typing a memo he'll later deny to his comrade in non-arms, Mean Jean Schmidt (animatronics by Stan Winston)....

Special appearance by 300 lbs of Smithfield lard as Dennis Hastert....

answer: because we've done a shitty job, and spent billions on corrupt contractors who haven't done anything.

We're closing in on THREE FUCKING YEARS LATER...

;-)

and said it should all be functional by the end of the summer.

making good progress. My god, that's one phrase I hope goes down with the Bushies. What empty lies.

they were and are merely RESTORING what THEY had DESTROYED when they were 'shocking and awing' Iraq :eyes:

Perhaps never having been told that the US gov't reward is currently at $50 million? :rofl:

He's like DR. Evil: One MILLION dollars!

Yeah, so you can imagine the jihadist who may think about turning on OBL saying...the $50 million from the US government won't induce me to spill the beans, but with $51 million? I have to make a phone call!

Put plainly, the man is a fucking idiot.

who single-handedly takes out the entire Iraq cell of AQ. As he slowly pulls the trigger on the last of the terrorists, he hisses "You ain't stoppin' Democracy, pal."

On the way back to base, he stops at the orphanage and hands out candy to the children, who gaze up at him with love and adoration.

Whatta guy that Bruce!


Now every stateside chickenhawk can have the thrill of being there --without the actual danger and everything. Cool!



And for those who might wonder, the above brought to you by our smiley sponsor: :sarcasm:

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Ol' publicity hound Bruce, his career pretty much over...

Edit: Fixed link to Yahoo Movies message board

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Since this is obviously "The Green Berets '05", let's run down the cast updates:

John Wayne's role - Bruce Willis
The Vietnamese Orphan - Dakota Fanning in brown makeup and a veil


any others?

...as the reporter - Jeff Gannon.

As the plucky new recruit killed by the damn godless A-rabs. Oh, and don't forget Michael Clark Duncan as the burly, battle hardened sarge with the heart 'o gold. He carries a minigun for obliterating godless A-rabs.

Which doesn't seem like it is very representative of what is happening over there to our troops.
Note this one interview with that blogger mentioned in the Australian article from the OP..saying how the group of soldiers that he used to be hit w/ I.E.D's twice a day and now it has been 2 weeks since the last IED...um, ok..funny how we hear EVERYday about IED related deaths. Hey, let's find a group of soldiers that only gets bombed like twice a month and make people believe all is good, no soldiers are dying every day.


http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/005194.html

Hugh Hewitt interviewed freelance Iraq war reporter Michael Yon Friday, and Radio Blogger has the transcript. Here's a portion of the interview:

http://www.radioblogger.com/archives/august.html#000926


HH: Are Americans getting a distorted view about how the war is going?

MY: Absolutely. Clearly, you're getting mostly body counts and bombings and that sort of thing, which are very real. I mean, I see those things here. They absolutely occur. We fight here every day. But what they don't see is that we fight less and less here every day. For instance, Deuce 4 has not been hit with an I.E.D. in about two weeks. We used to get hit like twice a day. Now, it's been like two weeks, and we have not been hit at all. So, you know what I'm saying?

That's beside the point, Bruce.

Not particularly good, not particularly bad, not particularly brave. I suspect most of them got in it for reasons having nothing to do with Irap, terrorism or whatever. They'll be able to buy themselves a house with what they earned when they come back. The rest is virtual reality.

Would someone please send Bruce a copy of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"? Maybe it'll tone him down a bit.

America is propaganda central.

Let's stop playing child's games. Who here doesn't know what freedom is? I expect Mr. Willis to prance right on down to Main Street, Baghdad, and start living his new life of FREEDOM. If it's so good he wants to make a movie about it, then why not walk the walk. Go, Bruce. Go. Prove to us just how free this freedom is. We want more than words. Phoney words. Twisted words. George Bush words.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

You empty slob.

Did he get a promotion?

guess offering more than that to get Bin Laden killed is supposed to make him look like a big manly-man type man man instead of the creepy old pediopheliac-crush guy everyone on Earth knows him to be? Oh,look,Bruce,that soldier over there looks like Aaron Carter in a uniform!Ooh!Ooh!HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

in his book

“New Rule – When actors volunteer for war, take them. In a gesture of immense emptiness, Bruce Willis called President Bush and offered to go fight in Iraq. President Bush told him it was unlikely to happen, but they’d get back to him if they couldn’t find Vin Diesel.”

I would tell Brucie Boy to put his money where his mouth is, donate every penny after expenses directly to help soldiers injured in Iraq.

can wank themselves stupid for! Oh joy! :sarcasm:

And he doesn't tip well either.

the "leaders" are chicken shits.

He's such an arrogant asshole.

Must be because he's in that wealthiest 1%.
Let's call him Tax-Break Willis! :sarcasm:

We aren't interested in your over-hyped career so STFU, pretty please.