There
are those who criticize Michael Moore for using selective
editing in his films. Those people are correct. There are
those who consider his new movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, a propaganda
piece that has no other purpose than to attack George W.
Bush. Those people are also correct. But since the Bush
administration used every underhanded trick to steal the
2000 election & lead our country into a fictional war
in Iraq that hasn’t yielded any uncovering of weapons
of mass destruction, not even the ones our government sold
to Iraq in the 80’s, I think it’s great that
Dubya & friends are getting a little taste of their
own medicine.
Michael
Moore may be an over-opinionated filmmaker, but we all have
opinions. He just has an opportunity to share his with more
people than most. His film showed clips of Dubya at his
most ignorant, revealing the widely known facts of Bush’s
penchant for going on vacation constantly, the president’s
poor grasp of the English language & his close relationships
to employees at Fox “News” Channel, the Saudi
royal family & his father’s business dealings
with the bin Laden family. Most have which have been well
known since the WTC attacks, but most conservatives disregard
them.
It
may be somewhat hypocritical that Moore acknowledges the
media’s agenda to keep the public in a high state
of alert through fear while also showing images of dead
Iraqi children, women who’ve been burnt with napalm
& soldiers who have had amputations & now cope with
that wonderful morphine. But he does show the Iraqi citizens
as what they are, human. Some neighborhoods in Iraq look
like some towns near Miami. There’s kids playing &
old woman walking around. All seems like life as usual on
a summer day, until 19-year-old kids who are listening to
Drowning Pool drop bombs. War isn’t pretty & young
Americans are being killed needlessly by people who see
us as outsiders while Halliburton cashes in.
We
see the way the Bush administration has taken away American
freedoms while claiming to Give some freedom to people who
might not have wanted it. We see how far the limits of the
Patriot Act stretch as peace groups in Sacramento get infiltrated
by the FBI & we see Michael Moore get accosted by Secret
Service agents while standing across the street from the
Saudi embassy in Washington D.C. which is several blocks
from the White House. But he also shows us the sheer ridiculousness
of airport security where during a time where people may
have bombs in their shoes they will be allowed to carry
no more than 4 books of matches & 2 butane lighters
on board an aircraft.
This
movie needs to be seen by everyone, including those who
choose to boycott it. Know why you’re against it.
Watch it even though it won’t change your opinion.
If you choose to believe the BIG REPUBLICAN LIE you’re
free to do so. But watch the scene where Moore stands outside
Capital Hill & tries to get Congressmen to enlist their
own children in the military & ask why they’re
willing to send so many other children to die, but not their
own.
Vote
for NOT BUSH in ‘04
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