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Sounds like you went in...

...expecting a documentary. :)! I didn't.

I think some of the ideas in the film needed to be aired.

I really liked how Moore reminded Americans that the U.S. military recruits poor kids from down-and-out parts of the country to fight in wars meant to protect the status of rich people---one more way the Iraq War is like the Vietnam War.

Some of the film footage was priceless. I don't think anyone in the U.S. broadcast the footage of people egging Bush's car during his inauguaral parade, and I did not know that (1) Bush had been told about the first plane hitting the WTC BEFORE he entered that classroom, (2) that the statement whispered in his ear while he was in the classroom essentially was "The nation is under attack," and (3) Bush just SAT THERE while McClellan and other minions waited for him to tell them what to do.

I think there is probably a lot to the story about the Bush family's personal and business relationships with the bin Laden family, but I think a different director (or writer) could do a better job with it than Moore.

I laughed at some of Moore's humor. The "Gunsmoke" "smoke 'em out" segment cracked me up.

But the whole thing with the mother in Michigan really got on my nerves. I didn't like her personality, and I thought Moore spent way too much time on her.

And I thought the structure of the film was pretty messy---lots of tangents---but he tied things up pretty well with his little speech at the end.

I think Americans ought to see the carnage of the Iraq War, the dead soldiers and Iraqis. American television stations don't show this, so I thought it was good that Moore did.

I don't watch TV at home (I did watch for few days following 9/11), so I had never really seen Bush in action until I saw this movie. He can't talk, he can't think. At first, I though maybe Moore was selectively choosing footage that made Bush look stupid, but there was so MUCH footage I came to the conclusion that Bush must look stupid most of the time. I found that pretty alarming.

Jeffery

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