I agree, eh?
Because I have been so vocal in my support of Fahrenheight 9/11, people feel the need to send me all the debunking articles and argue with me about whatever liberties Moore takes in the film. I try to remind them that, while I sometimes disagree with his methods, I applaud his resolve to tell things the way he sees them.
I think it is really sad that we've become a society where we expect that things will be explicitly spelled out for us so that we have to do no thinking for ourselves. I appreciate that people will go see F911 and have their minds altered and all, but I really wish that they would, I dunno, gets some different points of view and make up their minds for themselves. MM is not the only one talking about these issues. I've got a whole list of people over there to the left (how appropriate!) that talk about this stuff every day, you know?
Anyway, leave it to a Canadian to sum up my thoughts on the flick: Missing Fahrenheit 9/11's Forest for the Trees
If you choose to go see the movie, you'll be watching Moore's angry, funny, sometimes horrifying and heart-breaking satirical rant against Bush, someone he clearly regards -- rightly or wrongly -- as a doltish, lightweight frat boy.
He is scathing towards an administration that launched a war which, in the words of one businessman in the film, is "good for business, bad for people." Ten thousand dead Iraqi civilians might agree.
Watch Fahrenheit 9/11 with a critical eye and remember Moore's not trying to tell multiple sides of the story or be fair. And he unquestionably deserves a slap upside the head for some of the dumb things he says in the film.
However, ask yourself whether other media outlets show U.S. Marine recruiters behaving like pimps in economically depressed neighborhoods or maimed U.S. soldiers in military hospitals.
Similarly, ask yourself if the weapons of mass destruction didn't exist, then why did the U.S. invade Iraq? According to recent surveys, 57 per cent of Americans now think invading Iraq was a mistake.
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