Thank You, Bruce Willis...

...for having the guts to stand up for us. And thanks also goes to Michael Yon for being the reason Mr. Willis feels the way he feels.

According to the
Times Online from the U.K.,

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's about time someone depicts the American warrior for what he is, and Bruce Willis is the man to do it. In the photo on the right, Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay (Hawaii) was the backdrop for some "Die Hard" training, when actor Bruce Willis and the cast of his movie visited the Marines and Sailors of K-Bay on March 15, 2002. While there, 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”. He was on board with us well prior to the war in Iraq!

The Times Online article also said:

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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He is expected to base the film on the writings of the independent blogger Michael Yon, a former special forces green beret who was embedded with Deuce Four and sent regular dispatches about their heroics.

Yon was at the soldiers’ ball with Willis, who got to know him through his internet war reports on www.michaelyon.blogspot.com. “What he [Michael Yon] is doing is something the American media and maybe the world media isn’t doing,” the actor said, “and that’s telling the truth about what’s happening in the war in Iraq.”

Thanks again, Mr. Willis. It's refreshing to see a Hollywood actor with some clout come out and do what the mainstream media won't.