fahrenheit 9/11
Before I really get into this, let me say that this reply is not pro or con President Bush. This reply is however, pro America.
Evidentally Mr Moore is a democrat, which is fine with me. Republican or Democrat makes no real difference to me. Moore though, has repeatedly used his film director position to take pot shots at the other side of the Senate and Congress.
In the film, Moore makes a point of informing the viewer of President Bush's friendship with Saudi Prince Bandar. He even goes as far to call Prince Bandar, "Bandar Bush". What he doesn't tell the viewers though, is that president Clinton was just as friendly with Bandar. This is only one of many points Moore feels his audience will never check the validity of.
Moore portrays American soldiers as mindless morons, recruited from the "starving masses" and brainwashed into being savage, remorseless killers. I'm going to jump out on a limb here and make the assumption that this jackass has never served in any branch of the military.
A favorite commentator throughout the film is Mr Richard Clarke (of National Counter Terrorism, and a newly released book, fame). Clarke comments on how the US allowed the bin Laden family to quickly leave the United States, but Moore curiously doesn't ask the key question.
"Who gave the order to allow them to leave?"
Answer...Richard Clarke.
Moore makes a statement that the REAL reason for the Afghan war was only to allow Unocal Corp to build an oil pipeline. The fact is, Unocal dropped their plans for the pipeline back in '98, while it is other Mid East nations that are currently exploring the potential of the pipeline, Afghanistan included. Unocal has nothing to do with it.
Michael Moore blantantly lies when he makes the comment that "no member of the current administration has a son or daughter fighting in Americas military"
This comment must have come as quite a shock to the son of Senator Timothy Johnson, who currently goes by the name of Sgt Brooks Johnson of the Army's elite 101st Airborne.
He may have also missed role call for the sons of Senator Joseph Bidden, and US Attorney General John Ashcroft. There are others, but certainly Moore shouldn't have missed sons of these prominent people.
Moore shows a sequence with Iraqi men having coffee in a roadside cafe, and children playing in the streets. Only to follow this scenes of buildings and streets exploding under the impact of bombs and missles presumably launched by the awful Americans.
I'm sure men also sipped coffee and children played in Somoza's Nicaragua, Duvalier's Haiti, and Hitler's Germany. What's the point?
We're lead to believe that he did an enormous amount of research for this film. Why then does he not show us the thousands of atrocities that were part of the daily life in Iraq? Executions, dismemberments, torture. This was SOP in Saddam's Iraq. Maybe Mr Moore would like to hang from a meat hook next to actor Tim Robbins, where the two could discuss US policy concerning murdering, butchering dictators who dress themselves up in a General's uniform.
Moore's work in this film is not even original. During a sequence with an all black screen, Moore plays excepts of audio tracks recorded during the WTC attack on 9-11-01. This is a complete ripoff of another movie entitled "9/11/01" made in 2003.
Moore defends any questioning of the inaccuracies in his films by saying that he is a satirist, and as such does not have to tell the "exact truth".
This man disgusts me.
Soldiers from The United Kingdom, The United States and our allies have lost arms, legs, eyes, and of course, their lives. Mr Moore doesn't honor their sacrifice though, he just uses it to forward his own greed. Worse though, is that Mr Moore is undermining the United States government and military.
Here's my thinking folks. Right or wrong, when men and women volunteer to defend your freedom with their lives, they damn well should have earned your respect and support. Certainly, they should not be subjected to the disrespect that Mr Moore's film subjects them to.
Hey Mike, if you don't like the way things are done here, why don't you fly over to Iraq, and make a movie that attempts to usurp their government and religious leaders. Make witty comments about Saddam, Osama, the Taliban.
I'm sure they'll honor you at a special award too, and it might even get aired on al-Jazeera.
The following 10 point "non-interference" plan has been suggested, it is presented here as political satire:
1. The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. (You know, Hitler, Mussolini and the rest of them good ol' boys.) We will never "interfere" again.
2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with; South Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Cuba, and the Philippines and leave them on their own. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No more sneaking through holes in the fence.
3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would probably welcome them.
4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change your view, leave, don't hide here. Asylum would not ever be available to anyone. We don't need any more "cab" drivers.
5. No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, or they get a "D" and it's back home you go.
6. The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy, but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness, under the strictest supervision possible. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like the price, they can sit on it for another 20 million years.
8. If there is a famine or another natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement, food, medicine or whatever they need. Besides, most of what we give them is stolen or given to their "army's". The people who need it the most get very little, if any, anyway.
9. Ship the UN Headquarters to an island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, it would provide quality temporary office space for Morgan Stanley.
10. All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.
Evidentally Mr Moore is a democrat, which is fine with me. Republican or Democrat makes no real difference to me. Moore though, has repeatedly used his film director position to take pot shots at the other side of the Senate and Congress.
In the film, Moore makes a point of informing the viewer of President Bush's friendship with Saudi Prince Bandar. He even goes as far to call Prince Bandar, "Bandar Bush". What he doesn't tell the viewers though, is that president Clinton was just as friendly with Bandar. This is only one of many points Moore feels his audience will never check the validity of.
Moore portrays American soldiers as mindless morons, recruited from the "starving masses" and brainwashed into being savage, remorseless killers. I'm going to jump out on a limb here and make the assumption that this jackass has never served in any branch of the military.
A favorite commentator throughout the film is Mr Richard Clarke (of National Counter Terrorism, and a newly released book, fame). Clarke comments on how the US allowed the bin Laden family to quickly leave the United States, but Moore curiously doesn't ask the key question.
"Who gave the order to allow them to leave?"
Answer...Richard Clarke.
Moore makes a statement that the REAL reason for the Afghan war was only to allow Unocal Corp to build an oil pipeline. The fact is, Unocal dropped their plans for the pipeline back in '98, while it is other Mid East nations that are currently exploring the potential of the pipeline, Afghanistan included. Unocal has nothing to do with it.
Michael Moore blantantly lies when he makes the comment that "no member of the current administration has a son or daughter fighting in Americas military"
This comment must have come as quite a shock to the son of Senator Timothy Johnson, who currently goes by the name of Sgt Brooks Johnson of the Army's elite 101st Airborne.
He may have also missed role call for the sons of Senator Joseph Bidden, and US Attorney General John Ashcroft. There are others, but certainly Moore shouldn't have missed sons of these prominent people.
Moore shows a sequence with Iraqi men having coffee in a roadside cafe, and children playing in the streets. Only to follow this scenes of buildings and streets exploding under the impact of bombs and missles presumably launched by the awful Americans.
I'm sure men also sipped coffee and children played in Somoza's Nicaragua, Duvalier's Haiti, and Hitler's Germany. What's the point?
We're lead to believe that he did an enormous amount of research for this film. Why then does he not show us the thousands of atrocities that were part of the daily life in Iraq? Executions, dismemberments, torture. This was SOP in Saddam's Iraq. Maybe Mr Moore would like to hang from a meat hook next to actor Tim Robbins, where the two could discuss US policy concerning murdering, butchering dictators who dress themselves up in a General's uniform.
Moore's work in this film is not even original. During a sequence with an all black screen, Moore plays excepts of audio tracks recorded during the WTC attack on 9-11-01. This is a complete ripoff of another movie entitled "9/11/01" made in 2003.
Moore defends any questioning of the inaccuracies in his films by saying that he is a satirist, and as such does not have to tell the "exact truth".
This man disgusts me.
Soldiers from The United Kingdom, The United States and our allies have lost arms, legs, eyes, and of course, their lives. Mr Moore doesn't honor their sacrifice though, he just uses it to forward his own greed. Worse though, is that Mr Moore is undermining the United States government and military.
Here's my thinking folks. Right or wrong, when men and women volunteer to defend your freedom with their lives, they damn well should have earned your respect and support. Certainly, they should not be subjected to the disrespect that Mr Moore's film subjects them to.
Hey Mike, if you don't like the way things are done here, why don't you fly over to Iraq, and make a movie that attempts to usurp their government and religious leaders. Make witty comments about Saddam, Osama, the Taliban.
I'm sure they'll honor you at a special award too, and it might even get aired on al-Jazeera.
The following 10 point "non-interference" plan has been suggested, it is presented here as political satire:
1. The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. (You know, Hitler, Mussolini and the rest of them good ol' boys.) We will never "interfere" again.
2. We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with; South Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Cuba, and the Philippines and leave them on their own. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No more sneaking through holes in the fence.
3. All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would probably welcome them.
4. All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change your view, leave, don't hide here. Asylum would not ever be available to anyone. We don't need any more "cab" drivers.
5. No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, or they get a "D" and it's back home you go.
6. The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy, but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness, under the strictest supervision possible. The caribou will have to cope for a while.
7. Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like the price, they can sit on it for another 20 million years.
8. If there is a famine or another natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement, food, medicine or whatever they need. Besides, most of what we give them is stolen or given to their "army's". The people who need it the most get very little, if any, anyway.
9. Ship the UN Headquarters to an island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, it would provide quality temporary office space for Morgan Stanley.
10. All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.