Richard, sorry but you have not seen the movie?
The point of the movie is not to get into quibbles about whether or not we used napalm (you think the government would want that to be published?) or whether or not Iraq had WMDs, or whether or not etc. etc. etc.....
There are two main points in the movie:
1. The Bush family has a secretive relationship with the Bin Laden family and with top Saudi Arabian officials, which is why they avoided REALLY going after those behind 9/11, and also why they flew the Bin Laden family & other Saudi royals out of the US on September 13th, a fact confirmed by the airline. I went to college in Lexington, KY and some of my sorority sisters saw these people at Bluegrass Airport on their way out of the country on 9/13/2001. I remember how I felt that day, how horrified I was at what had happened, and how scared I was. It makes me sick to think that these people were barely even questioned before leaving the US. What if they knew something?? Like Moore says, if two days after the Oklahoma City bombings, Timothy McVeigh's entire extended family was quickly hustled out of the country with no questioning as to what they knew about McVeigh's plans to bomb a federal building first, how would you react to that?
2. American soldiers are dying - the current death toll is 857 Americans as of 6/29/04 - that the Bush administration told us needed to be fought to stop Saddam Hussein from using his WMDs, which of course he never had. Iraq was our scapegoat for 9/11, and young soliders are suffering the consequences. 857 families who are changed forever. How many more have to die? When the death toll hits 1,000 I will be sad but not surprised - will you be? Go see the movie, go witness that poor woman (Lila's) life now and try to put yourself in her shoes, and then justify this war to me. You can't, nothing can.
Go to http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/f911facts/ and read his rebuttals to point that have been disputed in the movie. He backs everything up. Or go to fahrenheit911.com and read about the movie. Educate yourself, believe what you want to. This is what I believe: the Bush administration is filled with criminals and John Kerry will easily become our next president.
PS Even with memos titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the US," George W. was on vacation 42% of the time between his inauguration and 9/11. Can you defend that? Or has Fox News scared you into submission?
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