No surprises here. He's expressed this view before, though some chose to look the other way because they liked his last movie.
Yup. Gibson was making comments about the war in Iraq during the filming of Apocalypto -- long before the drunk driving thing.
Wow. Imagine that. A basically conservative American who isn't wild about this war and who is wondering if it was a good idea. Pretty rare. Not.
The trailer to the movie looks spectacular. Many of Gibson's great movies have had things to say about power and oppression of governments. This one has the added element of a civilization corrupting itself and dying from within, and I look forward to seeing its portrayal.