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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Interesting
When a person commenting on the merits of this film's politics can't even spell the name Kerry properly ... one really has to question the validity of the persons views as being that of an informed, intelligent person. The lies, misdirections and smearing of this movie by those who don't agree with liberalism, and are knee-jerk (emphasis on the later portion of that term) Bush apologists are so transparent when they pull out wholly irrelevant non-sequiturs like blowj*bs in the Oval Office to distract from the reality and facts this film lays out for the viewer.
Iraq is Vietnam redux writ large.
Anyone who has delved into the financial interests that led us into that war need to take a close look at the players in this debacle.
Anyone willing to read about just this aspect alone, all they need to do is google "RMK-BRJ" and "Vietnam" in the same search and read about who made BILLIONS off of building the bases and support infrastructure in that war and this one. (hint, the BR stands for Brown & Root).
Our bankrupt policies in the middle east, and as they pertain to Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia is the most sorry sell-out of our moral high-ground as it pertains to foreign policy.. which date back to the after-shocks of WWI and specifically in the post WWII era. Overthrowing the democratically elected governments of both countries, and installing CIA backed puppets. To propping up the despotic regime in Saudi Arabia. One need only look at who funds, arms, trains, equipped and fills the roles of the internal Saudi security forces in that country. Carlyle Group subsidiary 100%.
Iran became the enemy in the late 70s as the despotic Shah we (via the CIA) installed in 1953 and who made Saddam look like a rank amateur was overthrown, then then we backed Iraq in the war against Iran, selling them intel and the chemical weapons to fill those mass graves that the GOP apologists use as their last desperate thread to justify the Iraq invasion (after WMD and al-Qaeda links went out the window). Then Iraq became the enemy when Saddam (also CIA backed and installed) went off the reservation and invaded Kuwait when we said we had no position in intra-arab conflicts.
Iraq had to be invaded lest it finally have sanctions dropped because it would then flood the market with oil, but selling it to the EU and trading in Euros not dollars.
Anyone who thinks that Iraq had anything to do with "security" or WMDs or "terrorism" is a fool.
Only the idiotic uninformed GOP ideologues or their duped enablers can watch this movie (which has its facts vetted and bulletproof.. pun noted) and still rail against the truths presented therein.
Finally the medium of film, which can simply present these truths in an easy to access form, is waking up the apathetic, the misinformed and the fearful to the alarming truth. The cancer eating at the heart of our nation in the form of self-absorbed, greedy faux moralizing criminals looking to line their pockets.
Most Americans have been to disengaged to the politics of our nation, and the things done in our names. But we are a good people at heart, and when presented with the truth, we want to do the right thing. This is why this administration and its sycophant apologists and mouth- breathing defenders are in a panic and apoplectic over this film... because it exposes a bright ray of sunshine on the cesspool of this administration.
Michael Moore is a true patriot, who loves his country, loves our troops and loves the ideals we hold sacred in our nation. Thos who seek to rail against Moore and those who speak out, and speak truth to power should heed the words of the great GOP (when they stood for American ideals before their co-option by the witch's brew of corporate greed and religious fanaticism) Teddy Roosevelt who wisely intoned...
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but it is morally treasonable to the American public."
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Having never read the book...
I can only posit my take on the meaning of this movie based on what was on the screen and not by what Shaw's novel put forth. That said, I found that the meaning and subtext of this movie is amazing.
While an atheist myself, I could clearly see what would be a recasting of Christ's passion in a modern context. What "sins of the world" to be borne by a Jewish man could be more obvious than the burden of the Shoah brought upon him? I see Arthur Goldman's allusions to Jesus throughout, the references about the Catholic Church's "forgiving the Jews" for deicide, his staging of the super before knowingly putting himself in the crosshairs of the Mossad to capture him, and finally most telling... his crucifixion like pose against the inside of the booth at the end, as the magnitude of the Holocaust finally descends upon him.
Did anyone else see this powerful subtext of the movie?