Fahrenheit 9/11: Review

Just a quick post to say that I’ve just been to see Michael Moore‘s film “Fahrenheit 9/11.”  It was absolutely tremendous. It showed the Iraq war to be a tragic and unnecessary act which caused the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians and countless coalition troops – all in the name of corporate American greed. It demonstrated what we have long known; that there was no link between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein; that the Iraqis played no part in the terror attack on the World Trade Center; that it was well known prior to the war that Iraq did not have any weapons of mass destruction (footage was actually shown of Colin Powell categorically stating this just after the Bush “election victory”); that there are close links between Saudi Arabia (and consequently the Bin Ladens) and the Bush family; and that the reason we were given for going to war in Iraq (the weapons of mass destruction again) was complete tosh. I raise my hat to Micahel Moore for a very courageous film, which shows the total lack of morality, truthfulness and decency in the Bush administration, and, as a result of their willingness to pander to Bush’s every demand, the Blair government too. As soon as we get rid of both Bush and Blair the better.

Incidentally, Moore is often criticised for stretching the boundary between fact and speculation. You may be interested to know that a long list of notes and sources for the content of Fahrenheit 9/11 is available here on Moore’s website.