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.
