"If ABC censor scenes in the American broadcast, we will know about it."
It makes no sense whatsoever that ABC would have the integrity to budget and make the $40 million film, run it without commercials, offer free Internet downloads and streaming (which they had been promising last week), and distribute the unedited version overseas, and then ..... ruin all that goodwill by chopping it up to hide portions from American viewers, and at the behest of Bill Clinton.
I think this "edited" version is a hopeful myth of the Rats. There is no "edited" version.
We've heard that Part II is very critical of the Bush Administration. My secret fantasy is with every complaint from the Clintonfacists, ABC assures them they are editing offending scenes. BUT the edits are in Part II which soften the criticism of the Bush Administration. If it were me doing the editing, I would LOVE poking a stick in their eye!
I also fantasize if they did cut some scenes, at the point in the movie where that scene would have been, the screen goes blank and they put up a disclaimer saying:
This scene has been removed due to complaints from Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger, Madeline Albright and threats from Democrat Leaders in the Senate to review our broadcast license. We'll rejoin the movie in a few minutes.