I agree, but let's look at this.
Moore is biased. Everyone seems acknowledge that. I do too. I don't even think his movie is really that effective, but it IS an attempt to get people thinking. Maybe a failed attempt. I doubt if very many people leave the theater with significantly changed perspectives.
With all the media in our lives our whole world seems to be determined by "spin" and its success rate. So Michael Moore CAN be accued of spin in this documentary. What, about similar issues like the lack of WMDs, is escaping his attackers. Any skewing of information in this movie does not come close to the world-wide propaganda blitz created by this president and his advisers that started a war with justification that has obviously been proven false.
A whole damn war! With death and destruction, human upheaval, grieving families on both sides, and massive economic cost and burden on society. And I am talking about Iraq, not Afghanistan, where we never really tried hard to get the real terrorists.
In our recent rewrite, this war was to depose a brutal tyrant. America wouldn't be there if that was the original story. The original story was based on revenge and fear. Lets go kill some of those terrorist bastards before they get us.
I walked the ground in Vietnam with a rifle in my hands. Most of the old farts in this group will remember that period well. I came out of it proud for my service and knowing that eventually we may have to go to war again, but hoping we would only do that when there was a clear enemy and a reason beyond reproach.
When the American public was being sold the story that got us into Iraq, I kept asking myself why there was no presentation of concrete justification. (Where's the beef? as that old TV ad said.) One night I met a guy from Australia and he reassured me that since his government was buying into the program, there must be something there that we, as common folk, weren't being allowed to know that justified the idea. I think that reassured me too much. I was looking for a reason to believe. As it started I wanted to believe, and pretty much did believe, we were doing the right thing.
So all this happened, and I support our troups who, like me (then), are doing the bidding of their government whether it really makes sense or not. So far no one has stooped to attacking the soldiers much, and I hope that doesn't happen. A few, like the prison guards, might be in deep trouble though, and I am sure this government could easily write them off with the other casualties.
As for this newsgroup, why are so many engineers down on Michael Moore? You guys are usually so logical in everything you do. The biggest and most obvious lie (and how can you argue the WMD thing) was the one that got this war started. Why the disjoint in attributing where the lies are? Be reasonable. Attack the BIG liar, not the one who made this little movie.
-Rex
P.S., I voted for Bush thinking he might be good for the economy. We all make mistakes. I admit this one.