{"id":2514,"date":"2005-11-14T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T22:32:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-11-14T15:32:57","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T22:32:57","slug":"willis-offers-cash-for-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/14\/willis-offers-cash-for-bin-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"Willis offers cash for bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000246\/\">Bruce Willis, <\/a> expressing far more displeasure with the Bush administration&#8217;s prosecution of the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; than he cares to admit, has stepped up to the plate and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southflorida.com\/news\/sfl-rowntstsh7nov13,0,3691923.story?coll=sfe-news-wire\">offered<\/a> a million dollars for information leading to the capture of al Qaeda leaders such as bin Laden. That&#8217;s damned generous of him. Perhaps, if this works, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grudge-match.com\/History\/mcclane-deathstar.shtml\">John McClane<\/a> himself will offer to lead the occupation forces in Iraq in their heroic attempt to crush all resistance to Washington DC.<br \/>\nWishful 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&#8217; and the dyin&#8217;.<br \/>\nWillis, a neocon-ish Republican and Bush supporter, also offered criticism of the press for not reporting &#8220;really good things happening in Iraq.&#8221; What a shock. Does anyone, anywhere in the world, think the press is <i>doing a good job?<\/i> Here&#8217;s something you never read: &#8220;My, my, my, my, my, is the press ever doing a spiffy job reporting on <i>[insert issue here]<\/i>. And they&#8217;re certainly not demonstrating any bias against my point of view, are they?&#8221;<br \/>\n Perhaps Willis could elicit the kind of reporting he approves of if he offered a million bucks for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood actor Bruce Willis, expressing far more displeasure with the Bush administration&#8217;s prosecution of the &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; 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&#8217;s damned generous of him. Perhaps, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}