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Originally posted by Rudey
As if a few minutes after 9/11 changed the world.
As if people would have responded better had they been in his shoes but really weren't.
As if he intentionally wanted to harm our nation and its citizens.
-Rudey
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I agree. I am by no means of fan of President Bush. I do however accept the argument that he was attempting to look calm for everyone involved and that 7 minutes was not crucial.
I also thought that while some of the footage, particulary of the war going on overseas was shocking and informative the film as a whole was no more than propaganda. The editing was not biased, it was sensationalist. Many, many aricles including the one honeychile have pointed out that several things Michael Moore cites aren't true. One example is the assertion that Saddam Hussein and his regime had never killed an American.
Furthermore, I thought a lot of things in the film were just gratituous of Michael Moore, like the driving around reading the Patriot Act, asking congressmen to send their children to war, endless footage of the mom who lost her son. I kinda felt like I was watching lowest common denominator manipulation. I went to a Henry Rollins spoken word a couple of months ago. I thought Henry gave an intellectual speech on the Iraqi conflict and had more things to say that I'd never heard about like The Soldier of Truth and the things she'd said about the real reason for the Iraqi invasion. All I got from Michael Moore is that there were no weapons of mass destruction, we were over there for oil. I already knew that.