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Fahrenheit 9/11 Review

Michael's Moore latest flick, Fahrenheit 9/11 is certainly entertaining. Unabashedly biased, not surprisingly, what the film is mainly is over-simplistic.

How so?

The film's main focus is the relationship between the Bush clan and the Saudis in general; more specifically, Moore focues on the Bush's relationship with the bin Laden family. Moore rightfully questions the Bush family's allegiance and loyalty in light of the fact that Saudi money has poured over $1.4 billion into the Bush clan over the past three decades.

Is this interesting? Of course. Worth pointing out? Definitely.

However, if a film's main purpose is to get George W. Bush out of office, then it fails to do its job. Why?

No one in the US of A ever suspected George W. Bush of being a smart fella, so portraying him as a buffoon only adds to the divided nation that America has become.

If Mr. Moore really wanted to get the electorate to kick Dubya out of office, then maybe, just maybe, he should have told the other half of the 9/11 / Iraq / Saudi / Bush story.

Mr. Moore does a wonderful job connecting the dots between the Bush and bin Laden family. He also does a wonderful job of explaining that Big Oil drove the Iraqi invasion: how Vice-President Dick Cheney's decision were conducted to benefit his former employer Halliburton; how current Afghan President Hamid Karzai was an adviser to one of Dubya's many failed ventures, and so on.

What he fails to do is connect the plan to invade in Iraq long before 9/11, long before President Bush even took office. The story I was looking forward to was how the war in
Iraq was conceived in the 1990s by Wolfowitz's cabal, namely, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Dick Cheney and company.

Today, we blame the CIA, we blame Ahmed Chalabi; whom we do not seem to cast any of the blame onto is the Neo-conservatives who seem to pledge a greater allegiance to countries other than the US.

If the goal of Mr. Moore's film was to drive him out of office, perhaps, just perhaps, Americans need to hear this story, no?

Shouldn't the real planners of this immoral and illegal aggression be held accountable?

Obviously, accountability in the US Government is something that burned away along with Arthur Andersen, Enron and Wolrdcom's accounting scandals.

Apparently, Mr. Moore wasn't too afraid of offending the President of his nation, that is his first amendment right, after all. But he did seem afraid to cast a wider net and reveal the true, tragic story of 9/11. That, and that is the greatest tragedy of them all.

I suppose that freedom truly burns at Fahrenheit 625, the day Mr. Moore's film was released nationwide.

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