Fahrenheit 9/11

So, I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11. Go see it. It's a well done movie and should be required viewing for any voting American (or any American). It's a well done movie, and is entertaining, heartbreaking and eye opening at the same time.

That said, I did have my complaints (nothing is perfect). I already knew a lot of the facts in the movie beforehand, so it wasn't as new or informative as I was hoping it to be. Not that that's a knock on the movie; I just think it would have been more shocking if I went in naive about the whole thing. Second, there were a lot of facts that Michael Moore left out that could have driven his point home even harder. For instance, he never even mentioned Operation New Direction for America (I think that was the name), in which Bush and his cronies had laid out a plan to over take Iraq and other countries...before they were even in office. In the official plan, the bastards say that there's no way the American people would go along with the plan unless another "Pearl Harbor happened." I think this would have made Moore's argument that the Bush administration was using 9/11 solely as a reason to invade Iraq even stronger (thanks to Jeff for that information). Lastly, Michael didn't seem as fired up as he usually is in his movies and TV shows. I just didn't feel much anger from him. However, I can understand that, since he wanted this movie to reach a very wide audience, I'm sure that he didn't want it to come off as just a pissed off rant from some left-wing nut. So, those complaints aside, it was still an excellent movie, and you should go see it.

Also, for those of you who read this who are still set on voting for Bush in November (which I'm pretty sure is 0, but humor me anyway), I'm going to try and post one news article, story, etc a day to try to convince you otherwise. Here's the first one; apparently, Bush doesn't really see it necessary to educate our children on how to protect themselves from HIV.