Dude, Where's My Country?

Michael Moore is doing what every proud American should be doing. That would be questioning the manner in which their president and government is running the country. Also, he is asking how this gov't is representing the US to the rest of the world.
All those who bash Moore as a liar, remember this. EVERY SINGLE statement he makes in his book, no matter how outlandish and far fetched it may seem, they are all supported with corroborating articles/documents. All of Moore's statements are proven to be true! You can decry him all you want, but hiding from the truth is plain ridiculous.

Michael Moore is doing what every proud American should be doing. That would be questioning the manner in which their president and government is running the country. Also, he is asking how this gov't is representing the US to the rest of the world.
All those who bash Moore as a liar, remember this. EVERY SINGLE statement he makes in his book, no matter how outlandish and far fetched it may seem, they are all supported with corroborating articles/documents. All of Moore's statements are proven to be true! You can decry him all you want, but hiding from the truth is plain ridiculous.

Someday, it won't even take a smart person to write a history of the missteps, miscalculations and mendacities that led us into the wilderness of the Iraq War. Part of that history will be of the few -- the very few -- voices that spoke the truth early and often, ignoring the cacophony of governmental officials and their media sidekicks who ignored their consciences and trumpeted war as good for the country, if not their pocketbooks and ratings. Michael Moore will be prominent in this recovered history,

"Dude Where is my Country?" shows Moore at his wildest and bestest -- asking hard questions about the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War that few others were asking. This was in 2003, mind you! And doing his shtick with humor, sometimes bitter and brokenhearted. Moore's questions are sometimes a little off the mark, but worth asking, if only to be given a satisfactory explanation. For instance, he asks, how could Osama bin Laden, supposedly hiding in the hills of Afghanistan and in need of dialysis, manage to orchestrate a successful attack on a superpower half a world away? I personally think it's not all that farfetched, given the reportedly loose organizational structure of al Qaeda, but let's hear the experts answer this. But Moore also asks more troubling questions about the too-cozy relationship between the Bushes and the House of Saud, a most repressive dictatorship. For instance, did the 9/11 hijackers really learn enough on a few quickie turns on a flight simulators to pilot their craft into buildings 3 times out of 3 (the 4th jet deliberately crashing into a field in Shanksville, PA)? Or were the hijackers (the pilots at least) trained in someone's air force? Moore then goes on to dissect the lies leading to the Iraq war -- that Saddam had nukes, chemical weapons, etc. -- and the credulous acceptance that these lies had in the public and the media.

Some of the material in this book eventually showed up in "Fahrenheit 911," Moore's famous movie about the attacks. Certain aspects of the movie that did not receive enough exposition received more here, notably the Unicom pipeline being built through Afghanistan to bring natural gas to a plant being built by Enron, of all firms. Money talk, patriotism walks.

Mike Moore is an extraordinary human being and a great American. He has been demonized by the right and marginalized by the MSM. Yet he still comes out swinging -- whether out of a surplus of ego, a thirst for justice or genuine compassion for ordinary people, I don't care. In 2003, he was practically the only person calling for government and media scrutiny and accountability -- one of the only people who was neither a conner nor conned. "Dude, Where's My Country?" will stand as a testament that in the early years of the new century, Americans actively chose to be gulled into two treasury-draining wars by leaders whose wisdom was as small as their arrogance and greed were large. Michael Moore is the Cassandra of our times. But his reputation can only increase as more and more of us accept the truths he has so genially been laying before us for years.

(D. David Morin does an OK job narrating, but it would have been excellent to hear Michael read his own material)