Farenheit 9/11
Just watched Farenheit 9/11. There's little more that I can say that others haven't, but I will say this:
The people who picked out minute errors can't see the forest for the trees. I can't even see how somebody who's seen the film could put a tick in the box next to Bush. Thousands of people are dead based on a lie. Shame.
posted by TheLoneAmigo @ 1:03 pm
5 comments
5 Comments:
Well, actually, I just watched it myself. I must say that I do not share your reaction. It's precisely BECAUSE I only saw the forest.
Mr. Moore made some plausible accusations: the Saudi connection, Haliburton, lack of WMD, Iraqi pipeline, etc. But sadly, just when I was getting interested in seeing him elaborate on his (elaborate) conspiracy theories.... it blew apart, and all I got was a handkerchief-wringing emotion fest with a war mom.
Moore lacks hard evidence. I do not believe that I am a starry-eyed idealist... I fully believe in the posiblity (nay, liklihood) of Bush corruption, but senseless allegations go nowhere.
About the only solid point he made was the deceptive way in which the Bush administration used fear tactics to gain support for the freedom-trashing 'Patriot Act'.
grrrrrr.
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That's the trees. The cooky conspiracy stories (which I don't remember from Moore's films, only from his books) are possibly crap, but that's not seeing the things like infiltration into "PeaceFresno"? I mean, come on. And keeping the people afraid? You think that is a conspiracy theory. You know, they're certainly succeeding at keeping me afraid.
I'd like to refute S. Lewis' claim that "Moore lacks hard evidence". Moore himself has set about to refute the ignorant with a book titled "The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader". The earth is no longer flat, you know...
Marc Fearby (Australia)
Moore fails completly in showing the morality of not declaring war on Iraq. The whole **** about Iraq being a peaceful country really got too me. Compared with the number of people Saddam would have killed off where way ahead.
The way he ignores matters of the Iraqis that have been saved by US intervention shows what he really thinks deep down beneath the pseudo-liberal bollocks.
1 American soldiers life>10 Iraqi civilians life
Their soldiers they're meant to get shot at. Its their job it wasn't mandatory and if their stupid enough too join up its their fault.
Bush did the right thing but for the wrong reasons,
A/ His secret neoconservative agenda
B/ His related business interests
If you want to see a real exspose on the reasons for the U.Ss current state see the much superior
'The Power of Nightmares' that was released on BBC a few months.
It shows the rise of the neoconservatives and Islamic fundementalists and how they used foreign wars and largly fictional enemys to wage the true war, liberalism in their own countries/religions citizens
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