Posted on 06/28/2004 9:29:02 AM PDT by GUIDO
VERY WELL SAID, but then again I expect nothing less from you.
Did Fatso show clips of Bill Clinton justifying going to war with Iraq for those same exact reasons? Methinks not.
"Did Fatso show clips of Bill Clinton justifying going to war with Iraq for those same exact reasons? Methinks not."
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But stripped of everything else, the essence of the film is: Why are we at war in Iraq?
Easily enough answered: our Congress listed their reasons for authorizing war in Iraq in the War Powers Declaration which did so. Just a few highlights: " Iraq's war of aggression ... cease-fire agreement ... Iraq, in direct and flagrant violation of the cease-fire ... remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations ... continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman ... the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States ... members of al Qaida...are known to be in Iraq ... the risk that the current Iraqi regime will either employ those weapons to launch a surprise attack against the United States or its Armed Forces or provide them to international terrorists who would do so..." etc.
Too bad Michael Moore apparently never read the actual War Powers Resolution, it mentions lots and lots of reasons. Apparently this silly movie was entirely unnecessary and stems from Moore's ignorance and/or intellectual laziness. Pity.
Yes, Saddam was a tyrant and Iraqis are better off without him. But that wasn't the stated reason for us going to war.
Well, it was part of it (see above).
There's no "the" stated reason, that's just the usual lefty strawman.
The weapons of mass destruction that were have yet to be found.
The weapons of mass destruction were not "the" stated reason either. In almost two dozen "Whereas" paragraphs, "weapons of mass destruction" are mentioned exactly seven times and in most of those cases what is actually being cited is "Iraq's demonstrated willingness in the past to use weapons of mass destruction" or something similar.
The fact that we (supposedly) haven't found weapons of mass destructions following invasion does not invalidate that reasoning at all.
To question the war, its direction and our leaders doesn't make anyone less of a good American or less worried about terrorism than those satisfied with the answers.
Of course not.
However, to spew a bunch of dishonest propaganda so that Europeans who hate America will shower you with dollars, and to try to influence the election with that dishonesty, actually does make one less of a good American.
It's still his "right" to be a bad American, of course. I'd never question that right of his in a million years.
There are some who instead of criticizing Moore and his film on its substance and flaws are using both as springboards to attack "liberals"
Who? Name those "some" please.
There are some (Cary Clack for example) who instead of defending Moore and his film on its substance and flaws are using it as a springboard to attack unnamed "some" who (supposedly) use the film to attack "liberals".
and their purported hatred of America
Hey, if the shoe fits... methinks he protests too much here.
I only accuse Michael Moore (and, "Europeans") of hating America. Yet for some reason Cary Clack seems to hear himself in that criticism. Why would that be hm?
When the coffins of American servicemen and women killed in Iraq are returned home, they aren't draped with red flags for the states that voted Republican in the last election or with blue flags for the states that voted Democratic.
No they are not. Thanks for that great point Cary Clack.
No political party or individual is entitled to those colors more than any other.
Except Michael Moore of course who has used their deaths to create a propaganda film which is "at its most powerful and moving when it focuses on the men and women fighting the war".
Do their families get royalties?
Through the usual LLL haze of hedging and false equivalency, it is apparent that Clack is worried about a backlash against this film.
He isn't the only one. My ultra-lib friend Harvey (head of the local ACLU) went with me to see it the other night. His response?
"What a load of horse-s**t. This is a disaster, Moore couldn't have done us more harm if the Republicans had been paying him."
He is especially worried that the Hollywood hype machine will magnify the backlash, turning Moore into the sole perceived spokesman for "progressive" ideology---with disastrous results for the left.
That makes it official as far as I am concerned, Michael Moore (aka the Ham-ass Terrorist, Lumpy Riefenstahl, Mike Al-Moor) is now our designated poster-boy for LLL activism. He is the purest and most obvious expression of all the left stands for. This perception will destroy them and there is precious little they can or will do about it.
"Filmmaker Moore has the right to question conflict in Iraq"
Absolutely correct. He has a right to question the conflict. He also has the responsibility to report accurately if he is calling this a documentary. Something the entire media seems to have conveniently forgotten.
Moore is schlock. His films lack any factual content, yet he is the darling of the left. Then again, so was Joseph Goebbels.
Not after July 30th he won't. HAHAHAHAHAA! CFR strikes again!
I often wonder what they are really thinking having people like moore, kennedy, jackson, sharpton run their party.
SSSHHHHEEESH from what I heard on the Schnit (sp??) show yesterday, he didn't even have the balls to show any not one single footage of 9-11. The only link he had to it was the screen going black and just audio. What a crock, the big time movie director, producer moore didn't want to remind his brainless followers of the tragedy that erupted and reminding them may make them believe it could happen again.eeeeeekkkkkk what a coward he is.
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