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Moore has the footage from the teacher who had made her own video of the President’s visit. But there is more, much more evidence of Bush’s dithering, dishonest and gravely damaging moves in what he piously calls the war on terrorism. Moore also uses candid footage of the facial expressions Bush practised before going live to address the nation on 9/11. Bush’s links with James R. Baath, the man who became the Texas money manager of the billionaire Bin Ladens, also stands exposed. Moore uncovers info from military documents that explain Bush’s "escape" from being drafted by the Texas Air National Guard. The name of the pilot, conveniently blacked out, is none other than that of Baath. Another indication of the closeness between the Bushes and the Saudis is the fact that the law firm of James Baker, secretary of state in Bush Sr’s time, was hired by the Saudi’s to defend them against a suit by a group of 9/11 victims and survivors, who charged that the Saudis had financed the Al Qaida. To Moore, this is more evidence that Bush has an unhealthy relationship with the Saudis and that it may have influenced his decision to go to war against Iraq, even more than the much-touted WMD or Osama bin Laden. Then as though taking a leaf out of Hitchcock or Truffaut’s book he appears in the film with a US Marine who refuse to return to Iraq and both of them confront Congressmen, urging them in vain to have their children enlist in the armed forces. There are more incidents, like for example the draconian US Patriot Bill being passed without any of the Congressmen having read it. Starting with Bush’s dubious election victory Moore marshals his narrative with incontrovertible evidence, catching his subjects off guard, and delivering the coup d’etat in distinctive style. But the second half of this 120 minute film gets sort of predictable as Bush cuts a sorry figure. On September 13 the Saudi ambassador had dinner with Bush and you have this footage set to the sound track of that classic Western "Shane." But the film grows steadily darker and Moore disappears from it as he focuses on people such as Lila Lipscomb, from Moore’s hometown of Flint, Michigan, as she reads a letter from her son, written before his death. It urges his family to work for Bush’s defeat. So Farenheit 9/11 is as much a scathing attack on an incompetent, dithering President as the devastation of the twin towers itself on 9/11. |
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States President George W. Bush was in a classroom of children in
Florida reading the poem "My Pet Goat" when he was
notified of the second attack on the World Trade Center. But he failed
to react and in fact continued to talk with the kids for the next seven
minutes before leaving the classroom. It surely wasn’t his love for
the kids that led him to do this but an inexplicable paralysis to grasp
the enormity of the September 11 attack on the US and that is easily the
most devastating passage in Micheal Moore’s Farenheit 9/11, a
damning document on the utter ineptitude and incompetence of the United
States highest executive.