I saw the M. Moore Film

The media wants you to believe that it is some sort of slanted documentary. Well, I suppose that it is and I’ll get to that. But in telling the story that it sets out to do, it gets an A.

This is somewhat of a spoiler if you read on, but how can you spoil history?

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In the beginning of the film, the Cast is introduced, putting on makeup and getting ready for their moments in front of the Camera.

Then we see what happened with the election where he slid by Al Gore, and how the Senate stood by while congress was protesting the election.

We see the President on Vacation, and it is reported that he is on vacation for a lot of his first year in office. The video footage used of Bush is full of “Bushisms”.

Then Moore shows us the presidents Service Record. (Pre-9/11) and after the whitehouse has had a chance to “sanitize” it.

This is the smoking gun of the movie.

This disqualifying paper has the name of Bush’s associate from the Air Force Guard that links Bush with the Saudi’s and yes… the Bin Ladens.

I had no idea that Bush was linked with Bin Laden. -J

Then Bam! 9/11 happens, and then Moore starts his journey into pre-supposition and commentary. What was the President thinking for 7 minutes while he sat there and did NOTHING after being informed about 9/11. If my kid was being hurt by someone, you know I’d be there in a heart beat, it’s an instinct. Moore then shows us the Money trail making the claim that Bin Laden and the Saudi’s have undo influence due to their financial dealings. Moreover he uses actual video coverage of the pre-presidential days of GW talking about his unparalleled access with his father, and how it makes him a powerful guy in the beltway.

Moore continues on to show relationships using news footage and other files of the relationships that existed among current government officials and foreign leaders with respect to Bush. Nepotism is an understatement.

Then it is on to the war. I really had thought that we were there because of weapons of Mass destruction. OK, the media was really trying to connect the Al-Qaida situation with Iraq, but infact, he has footage of Bush making the connection. I believe it was one of his addresses to congress where he made the claim.

Moore shows the youth of America, our Soldiers, fighting this war to keep the wealthy both rich and in power. At one point, he shows a US soldier who says he doesn’t understand why he gets paid barely $2000 a month, while a civilian working for Haliburton is getting paid Much More (I think it was like $10K or $20K) a month to drive a truck for 40 hours a week, while that US soldier making nearly nothing had to protect him. Mine and Your tax dollars at work.

He went on to show the gruesomeness of war, showing both Iraqi civilian and US Military Casualties. Showing soldiers with lost limbs being treated by the VA or other military hospitals. He goes on to tell how our congress and whitehouse aren’t even providing the support for Vets that they should that have served their country. And he worries about them being left behind.

Lastly he has a Mother whose son died in Iraq, and how losing a son to a war that seems more about the emotions of 9/11, continuing the feeling of insecurity, and getting that oil has changed her mind about her feeling of the war.

He shows how the military specifically targets lower income Americans to fight and join the military, because upper-income Americans can afford to not have their sons and daughters die protecting freedom. This included most all of congress and the senate.

Farhrenheit 9/11 is the temperature that blood boils at!