Today I watched Bravehart for the umpteenth time, yes I do love the movie but even more, I love the substance of the movie, which is to say the screenplay, yes its brilliantly acted by Mel Gibson and the entire cast for that matter.

I'm well aware that there was poetic license used in the movie and that it was not 100% historically accurate but in order to keep it an approximately two hour plus movie and to make it pubically appealing, the movie took certain liberties, whats important is the core value of the lead character in the movie, William Wallace, a warrior hero, a very charasmatic leader, a skilled fighter and a true intellect, even more so in the real life version as opposed to the hollywood movie version. In real life he was exceedingly tall for his time which was the late 1200's, the average male height being 5'4'' , but Wallace rose to a majestic 6'7'' exceedingly handsome and a body in perfect symetry to his height very agile, strong, and an intellect which the movie dwelled precious little on.

What the movie version and the real life version had in common was his bravery, his patriotism, and his unflagging determination of freedom being a God Given gift to all people and a sovreign right of his countrymen.

Now, you may be asking what does all this have to do with George W. Bush? Well its really simple, in my personal opinion I find him to be the polar opposite of George Bush, Wallace was handsome and charsismatic and Bush not, Wallace tall Bush not, Wallace was an inspiration to his people, again, Bush not. Wallace, when presented with an opportunity to fight for his country did so with love, passion, and fierce determination, Bush, when presented with the opportunity, chose to use the Air National Guard as a dodge from active duty using his father's influence, after all, was there anything stopping George Bush from serving active duty and volunteering for Vietnam ala McCain? Nothing but Bush's own cowardice and refusal to serve his own country in actual combat and even in the Air National Guard somehow he managed to go AWOL.

Wallace was for freedom, a promoter and fighter for freedom, a man that died a martyr for freedom's sake, here again Bush is the opposite, Bush has done everything to restrict the freedom of his countrymen [american citizens] subverted the constitution, promoted domestic spying on american citizens, and created a database of private phone calls of american citizens. Yes, Bush is a coward, what else can you call a man that chose not to enlist active duty and use his father's influence and the Air National Guard as a dodge to avoid service and combat in vietnam. There is a level of hipocrisy here that is painfully obvious, that being a dodge to avoid combat in the Vietnam war, yet this man created his own little war in Iraq that has backfired, yet he is so willing to send the children of the mom's of this country into deadly combat, that he so artfully avoided, if this is not hipocrisy and cowardice what else can you call it?

In the movie version of Bravehart at the the ending you see Wallace being so cruelly tortured Wallace takes a deep breath and screams "FREEEEEDOMMMMMM" before being beheaded can you picture George Bush doing that? I for one cannot! Here once more Bush has restricted freedom rather than promote and expand it.

On this Memorial Day when we honor our nations bravest i'm sorry that that Bush that Bush cannot be in that company, in order to be in that grand company Bush would have had to choose "to pick up a weapon and stand at post" but he chose not to.