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Bruce Willis in Pro-Iraq War Film
Outraged by the anti-war bias of the U.S. media, Hollywood star Bruce Willis is planning to produce a new film that tells the story of the bravery of U.S. combat troops in Iraq and their success in liberating the Iraqi people. "I was over there," Willis recently told MSNBC's Rita Cosby. "I am baffled to understand why the things that I saw happening in Iraq, really good things happening in Iraq, are not being reported on." Willis' film will be based on the exploits of the highly decorated members of the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, known as the "Deuce Four," according to the London Times. The Deuce Four has spent the past year battling terrorists in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul. Along with Stephen Eads, the producer of "Armageddon" and "The Sixth Sense," Willis attended the unit's homecoming ball this month in Seattle, Washington.
Story Continues Below Willis has been to Iraq himself and said he intends to return shortly. "What I saw over there is not reflected in the news whatsoever," he told MSNBC. "You know, the coalition forces there are getting the power turned back on. They`re getting the schools opened up. They`re getting hospitals opened back up." The Hollywood conservative said U.S. forces have done a tremendous job in beginning to establish a modern society for the Iraqi people - "not to mention winning the war." Willis, who has personally offered $1 million for information leading to the capture or killing of Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri or Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, said the Iraq war was really no different from World War II. "This is the same fight the US fought 60 years ago,” he declared. The independent-minded star is likely to take on the role of the Deuce Four's commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Erik Kurilla, who the Times describes as "a Bruce Willis lookalike with a chest full of medals, more hair than Willis and a glamorous blonde wife." Lt. Col. Kurilla was injured in August after being shot three times by insurgents "in front of my eyes”, according to Michael Yon, a blogger who was embedded with his unit. "He continued to direct his men until a medic gave him morphine and the men took him away,” Yon said. Kurilla, who met Willis at the Deuce Four's homecoming ball, told the Times that his men were "very excited and appreciative that he was there.”
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