[Trippin]

That's weird. First time I went in it showed the article, now it's asking for a userid password. Here is the article from Google's cache :

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Actor Mel Gibson has become the latest in a line of celebrities to question the war in Iraq.

The usually-conservative movie star-director said he had been having "doubts" about President George W Bush.

"It's all to do with these weapons (of mass destruction) that we can't seem to find, and why did we go over there?" he asked.

Usually a Bush supporter, Gibson said a lot of what the president had done during his term in office had been "good".

But he said in the WABC radio interview that he had been "having my doubts of late".

Gibson is riding a new wave of fame at the moment with the massive success of his film, The Passion of the Christ.

Despite some controversy and claims of anti-Semitism the story of Christ's crucifixion has taken $US250 million at the box office.

The film opens in the UK on March 26.

Other Hollywood stars have spoken out against the war including Dustin Hoffman, Sean Penn, Martin Scorsese, Danny Glover and Martin Sheen.

Meanwhile, Gibson said in the interview that he planned another religious film.

He wants to tell the story of a Jewish rebellion nearly 200 years before the birth of Christ, which led to the festival of Chanukah.

By making that film Gibson might answer his critics who have branded The Passion as anti-Semitic.

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[PleaseNoMore]

You know what? For a while I began to doubt too, but I decided that Bush was a good man and he would do all that he could to see this thing through. Does that make me liberal?

[Glenmerle]

"It's all to do with these weapons (of mass destruction) that we can't seem to find, and why did we go over there?" he asked.

I'm willing to cut Gibson some slack because God knows I don't trust newspaper reports and this line may well have been taken out of context . . . but what is it about people that they can't see past the WMD thing? Do they not remember there were other, equally important reasons Bush decided to go into Iraq? And what if there had been WMDs and we hadn't gone in -- what would those people be saying now?

By going into Iraq, Bush has done something farsighted and downright brilliant, WMDs or not, and it shocks me that so many people can't see it. I think Bush is fighting both a short-term and a long-term war on terror, which is the only way to win. In Iraq, Bush is trying to create fertile ground for freedom -- in a region that, except for Israel, has NEVER known it. And freedom, democracy, is going to be the final nail in the coffin of terrorism.

Bush is taking the long view -- doing to terrorism what Reagan did to communism. For decades the "learned" among us said we couldn't defeat communism, and now the narrow-minded dolts are saying the same thing about terrorism. They can't see past their own noses.

My guess is that Gibson has never even considered the long-term benefits in the war on terror that Bush will achieve by going into Iraq. And being in the business he is, he's not likely to encounter anyone who will enumerate those benefits for him.

[Paperdoll]

By the time "The rest of the story is told" about the life of GWB, I have said before that Mel Gibson should do the film, and he should also star in it.

[Tempest]

That's from a very old article and has nothing to do with his appearance with Moore.