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The
Iraq war happened
because Cheney and Bush wanted to steal oil for their Buddies in
Texas. End of Story. The movie is just the two hour
version.
I decided to fall for the hype and
go see what this movie was all about. I know, I know, I let Michael
Moore win, but I just wanted to see if this was really anything like
Roger and Me, which I thought was great. It wasn't.
There were a few moments, in typical Moore fashion that he made Bush
other Republicans look like idiots quite humorously by using tricky
editing of outtakes and bungled Bush sound bites, but that was about
the extent of the entertainment.
The rest of the movie was made up
of Moore going on and on and on ... about rumors and conspiracy.
All his "revelations" were either "not news" or along the lines of
"tying" the bush family to Bin laden. Most assertions
can be refuted with a little searching on the internet.
Let me attack a few of them one by
one.
1. The US secretly let the
Bin Laden family members in the U.S. "escape" on a private jet 2
days after 9/11. It is true that 124 elite Saudis
were allowed to leave 2 days after 9/11 and 24 of them were named
Bin Ladin. For one the Bin Ladin family is one of the
wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia with at least 100s if not
thousands loosely related to Osama. Moore spends
20 minutes of the film raising a big conspiracy that the Bush
Administration based on their close friendship with the Saudis let
them "escape".
The Truth: The flight
was actually authorized by Moore hero Richard Clarke, the one who
wrote that scathing book about Bush and Terrorism, and the 911
commission found no issues with that flight. Both Clarke and
the 911 commission are lauded in the movie but they failed to
receive and mention in this tedious 20 minutes of conjecture.
2. Moore furthers this argument to
suggest that the Bush family was tied to the Bin Ladins and hints
they are responsible for 9/11. Further asserts that the Saudis
control the US government blah blah blah....
3. Moore even suggests that Bush
let the Taliban and Osama slip away in Afghanistan because they were
not aggressive enough. This from a guy who 2 years about was
saying in interviews that the war in Afghanistan was not justified
and Osama was "innocent" till proven guilty.
I could go on and on but Moore
makes many assertions that are loosely based in fact and therefore
based on the footage of his movie are the "real" reasons for 9/11
and Iraq. I am sure many people who see this movie will be
Bush haters and will love every minute of this movie. However,
unless you are a staunch bush basher you may find this movie a
tad boring and tedious as my wife, no Bush backer, and I did.
I know I let Moore win because I
went to see the movie. I guess it is my hope that Moore is
really a smart capitalist who doesn't care about most of his hair
brained ideas in the movie but is stirring controversy so he can
take home a $100 mil plus on this movie and laugh all the way to the
bank saving tons of money in taxes thanks to his nemesis Bush.
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