pseudoblog

f9/11

so we went to see the michael moore flick last night.

very disturbing film. i already thought bush was a twit
and that i'd rather vote for a monkey than him this fall,
but that pretty much did it for me.

i would advise everyone to go and check it out, ass or
elephant.

you do need to realize that everyone has an agenda and that
goes double for moore. he wants bush out...and probably
strung up, but who's counting.

anywhoooo, regardless of his agenda, it shows you an
alternate version of the past 4 years. the initial
sequence after the credits was probably the most disturbing
portrait of 911 since the day itself and the footage didn't
even...well just go see it and you'll understand.

the most damning things that are shown in this film are the
media items we didn't get to see, want to see or take the
time to see.

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fahrenheit 9/11 left me with the following impressions:

we are a nation with and extremely short memory and a bad
case of a.d.d.

we, as americans, tend to let a lot of things slip by
because we believe that people are acting in our best
interest, and that's not always the case.

america hasn't changed much since it's inception...we've
always been about money and power and it is an unfortunate
legacy which keeps reinventing itself with each generation.

there are people in this country who BELIEVE IN AND LOVE
this country a lot more than those of us who are content to
sit at home or in a darkened movie theater.

americans believe deeply that we have the best country in
the world...the most true part of that statement is that we
have it soooooooo much better that everywhere else.

some people in america don't really have it sooooooo much
better that everywhere else.

i want to stop short of saying that we, as a nation, had it
coming...but we are most definitely paying for our past,
collective, actions. while we may not be the people making
the decisions...which was very much the case in the last
election...we, at least to the rest of the world, are
guilty by association.

it solidified the idea in my mind that no one knows why the
hell we're really in iraq, that we were lied to about why
we went in, that there were plans on the table for a long,
long time to go after iraq and that the most plausible
reason in w's mind for going to war against iraq was that
saddam tried to kill his father.

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ok, so now that i've established that i'm a bleeding heart
liberal...just go see the movie and decide for your self.
isn't that really the only thing that matters?

posted by Joe Mieczkowski @ 10:23 AM