My husband and I highly recommend that all Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and non-political people see Fahrenheit 9/11 which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is shocking, sad and funny. The documentary is about what our White House Leaders have to say about themselves via video and news clips. It is also about how the Senate Democrats did not stand up for their African American colleagues in the House over their disenfranchisement in the 2000 election in Florida. It is about the human cost of war. We get to meet our soldiers in Iraq and a proud military mother who is grieving about the loss of her son to a war whose righteousness she has not thought to question. There are heartbreaking scenes of the civilian consequences of the war. In Flint, Michigan we join two Marine Recruiters at a local mall who are talking to inner-city kids whose best options for education and a better life is to enlist in the military.
We meet the contractors who will profit from the war.
Michael Moore’s documentary may be his opinion of how the Bush Administration has run the country before and after the 9/11 attack on America. However the film touched a chord for many of us across the Nation and the world as it expressed what we feel and believe—that Iraq was a war of choice, that terrorism has increased since the war, and that the Bush Administration is beholden to Saudi oil interests.
The Bush Administration has raised more than enough money in this election to make several documentaries expressing their point of view.
As A. O. Scott said in his NY Times Review, "Fahrenheit 9/11 is worth seeing, debating, and thinking about regardless of your political allegiances."
