Ok, so I decided to take a good few hours to fully digest the movie before I wrote anything about it. Basically the film left me with a feeling of frustration and powerlessness because the problems we face are so grave. Basically if you can get past the idea of Michael Moore (ie get past the fact that you hate him and/or his tactics) and just understand what the movie is trying to say. Basically it posits the question, Why are we in Iraq? What led us there? How is Sept 11 connected to it all? Moore addressed all these questions and more with his usual cynicism, wit, and humor even though, in the end, he is deathly serious about the messages he is trying to get across. His goal is simple, Bush needs to go... why? His whole administration is connected with Saudi interests, oil interests, etc..
So what did I think of it all? I, for the most part, agreed wholly. One of the most damning moments for Bush had to be his reaction immediately after he was told "America is under attack" while he was reading to school children in Florida: nothing...for 7 minutes....God that pissed me off to no end. On a more general note, I'm still trying to figure out why some people like him so much... I just can't understand it... it's almost as if people don't read the news, don't know what's going on in the world, or they're too damn scared to care about anything but their own personal safety, which they feel Bush somehow does a good job of providing, when in fact we are probably worse off than we would have been had we not gone to Iraq, had we actually gotten Osama (another nice fact with us sending only 11,000 troops to Afghanistan to look for the guy who actually was responsible for sept 11, guess Saddam is more important somehow?). I mean I can see you liking some of his policies...perhaps you are anti-abortion, or super-Christian... that's cool.. so is he... no judging you on that. But are you able to look past all of the crap that he's done just to keep him in power for a few issues? Are you willing to live in the era of Ashcroft and his trampling of civil liberties and the Bill of Rights? The era of Rumsfeld and prisoner abuse, violations of the Geneva convention, and war before diplomacy philosophy? Do you believe that God would endorse our crusade against these so called terrorists? I don't know a God that finds a war just unless there is no alternative... not only does it seem that we had an alternative, but we didn't even have a valid reason (no wmd, no al queda there, etc etc).
Bah! I'm getting ranty... ugh. Just feeling frustrated. Why should I care so much? I really don't know. I definitely didn't used to care this much. Maybe I have some fear to a certain extent. I'm scared of what's going to happen if Bush (and his whole administration, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, and Cheney are perhaps worse than Bush) stays in power, if we continue to alienate the world, if we continue to make people hate us not because we "love freedom" or have women's rights but because we are a threatening superpower that forces its views of right/wrong and good/evil upon others. Some would say our 'preemptive' strategy is justified. That if we don't get these terrorists they're just going to come get us. Well all I know is that we're doing a pretty good job of swelling the ranks of people who dislike us. Ever see that Mickey mouse cartoon where he chops up the broom and it just keeps coming back more and more? Yeah kind of like that...
Lastly, people keep saying Kerry won't be able to fix anything. That's just bullshit. Him not being Bush is a fix in itself. Along with Bush going out goes his entire administration. Kerry has already expressed his willingness to rely on diplomacy, to work with others in the world, to fight terrorism in a way that could actually succeed. Of course he's no golden hero from on high, but I can see hope in him, at least more hope than I have now in Bush.
So I'm just going to end it because I could probably have this post go on forever. So lastly, if you made it through this post, you're quite a trooper... Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Oh and I just want to say hi to John Ashcroft as I could be possibly being monitored for being critical of the Administration. If I get arrested, don't worry... I'm an American citizen, they'll have to charge me and allow me legal counsel etc... oh wait... Patriot Act says they don't have to if they think I'm a terrorist...darn... wish me luck
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