Hollywood actor Bruce Willis, expressing far more displeasure with the Bush administration’s prosecution of the “War on Terror” than he cares to admit, has stepped up to the plate and offered a million dollars for information leading to the capture of al Qaeda leaders such as bin Laden. That’s damned generous of him. Perhaps, if this works, John McClane himself will offer to lead the occupation forces in Iraq in their heroic attempt to crush all resistance to Washington DC.
Wishful thinking. I seriously doubt that the type of fanatic who would fly an airplane into a building is looking for material rewards. Besides, pampered rich-boys like Willis and public war-hawk intellectuals seem perfectly willing to allow someone else to do the killin’ and the dyin’.
Willis, a neocon-ish Republican and Bush supporter, also offered criticism of the press for not reporting “really good things happening in Iraq.” What a shock. Does anyone, anywhere in the world, think the press is doing a good job? Here’s something you never read: “My, my, my, my, my, is the press ever doing a spiffy job reporting on [insert issue here]. And they’re certainly not demonstrating any bias against my point of view, are they?”
Perhaps Willis could elicit the kind of reporting he approves of if he offered a million bucks for it.
Skip to content