The Gutless Pacifist links this morning to this Sydney Morning Herald article in which Mel Gibson questions the war in Iraq:
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.
Well if a man so infrequently afflicted with doubt as Mel Gibson is starting to wonder about WMD, things really are looking up!
I say exactly the same thing when one of the liberal Tories here does something truly awful, like vote for the decriminalisation of prostitution. It doesn’t stop me stumping up on Election Day and putting my two ticks in the right boxes. The alternatives are just too dire to think about. (Vote Labour=cold day in hell) I think Mel will grumble, then take one look at John Kerry and stop grumbling. I really need to get one of those “Luvya Dubya” pins to wear around here-It could come in handy.
It’s nice to see that people are protesting the liberation of Iraq in just about every country in the world - except, of course, Iraq.
The thing is that I think he is just following the Vatican on this one.