It's a fantastic "movie." A terrible "documentary." Moore doesn't even attempt to portray the other side of the story, and his tactics are, while always entertaining and affective, more biased than a Hip review written by Lance.
(Sorry bud, just needed one of us as an example...)
I'd rather see the Kool-Aid Man in the White House than Bush, and his politics are very much opposed to mine, but from an objectivity stand point, he gets a raw deal in this flick.
Two things got me about the film, and it's two major selling points: 9/11 was so unthinkable and utterly unbelievable prior to that day that NOBODY, nobody, could have seen it coming and prevented it. Hindsight is great, but just because the Bush family has tons of links to the Bin Laden's does not mean they knew about it, or wanted to gain from it financially as the film hints. If you're a rational human being, you can't think that Saudi family members being flown out of the country on 9/11 means Bush was in on it. Hell, nothing even suggests that the Bin Laden family at large and Saudi Royals were in on it. The Bin Laden's have a nut-job rogue member named Osama. That doesn't mean they're all guilty. The way everybody in a turban or head scarf was made to look evil was borderline racist I thought, and more up Bush's alley than Moore's.
And second: Bush is an intellectual light weight who has coasted through life. Yep, I agree. But just becasue he's a coaster who plays golf "Now watch this drive..." doesn't make him guilty. Truman played golf, Kennedy played golf, hell Chretien and Clinton played golf together all the time, and when they goofed around with the press, they were being "charismatic statesmen." Did Bush spend too much time goofing around before 9/11? Yep. But what happened on that bright September day was unconceivable and indicative of a failure of all intelligence/security agencies in the US and elsewhere, not just the guy in the executive office.
I hope Kerry wipes the floor with Dubbya on November 2, and I hope it has NOTHING to do with Moore's film. There's plenty of other legitimate reasons to turf him...
