Fahrenheit 9/11

I can't really be arsed with this any more. I've said my bit!

But if I were an Iraqi then I would most definitely have voted and I'd want to help sort my country out and get the troops out and help to build a proper country with decent values and attitudes. Whether I liked George Bush or not wouldn't have come into it. I'd reckon that every Tom Dick and Harry Corporation was making money out of our country's oil and if a by-product of one of Bush sending the troops in was that Bushmate's Inc made a few bucks then I'd be happy enough to see it happen, before Bushmate's Inc got the boot and Tom Dick and Harry Inc got back down to the job of screwing us just as before. We'd be better off without the evil giant and not any worse off in other respects.

Of course, if you want to look at it from the point of view of your own prejudices then fine.
 
Terry,
If you look at it from the perspective of parents or relatives of USA soldiers then its a different ball game. That was surely one of the points of the film.
Nearly 1500 dead so far, over 10,000 injured or mutilated so that (as you put it) Bushmate's Inc can make a few bucks.
So it's all worthwhile then is it?
 
Hutchy, is it more or less 'moral' to be a Frenchman or a Russian creaming off nice fat profits at the expense of the Iraqi people and to expect this to continue unhindered forever more? Whom exactly was going to interrupt the party?

You could argue that Bush has bought Bushmate's Inc's slice of the cake with the lives of some of his own people, I'm in no position to judge that, but those people have elected him twice now.

Don't you think that it is a bit rich to rip these people off and then to moan like the clappers when somebody else gets in on the act? Surely they are better off with Bush ripping them off, if that is what you think is happening? I'd have thought that it was more a case of Bush deciding to take action for a number of reasons and rewarding some of his supporters, but I can accept that these 'rewards' are wrong if that is what happened.

I think that the average American would know that lives were being lost without having to experience Mr Moore's pathetic efforts.
 
It's funny how some people have to personalise these debates.

It's usually a sign of failure, Homer.

But there'll be another day, I'm sure.
 
Don't patronise me Homer.

I like to think of myself as sitting outside the forum hut, the rain dripping down my nose, the wing blowing my hair around, hands in pockets, shivering, with a mug of soup in my hands, whilst you lot shrivel up in the warm with your hog on a spit.

:D
 
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