Michael Moore’s movie Fahrenheit 9/11 has been filling up the Korean theatres here (9/11 Come to Korea). However I suspect just like in the states that the movie will fizzle after all the people already committed to his point of view see the movie. The movie is just preaching to the choir and not able to change people’s minds because it is so wacky.

When you suggest that Bush attacked Afghanistan to place an oil pipeline after 9/11 you lose all creditbility with an objective audience. It doesn’t matter who was President at that time Afghanistan’s days were numbered. Hell, Jane Fonda would of attacked Afghanistan after 9/11. I know all about Moore’s tactics after watching Bowling for Columbine. He exagerates and flat out lies so many times it is ridiculous. I am from Colorado and I know all to well what happened at Columbine. I was in disbelief when in the movie he says that the Lockheed plant in Littleton makes ICBMs to kill people when in fact they make rocket boosters for the space program.

Also the part where he alledgely reads the plaque off the aircraft static display at the Air Force Academy and says that the plaque says that this aircraft killed a bunch of Vietnamese people on Christmas Eve was completely bogus. It says no such thing. I could go on and on but check out this link to set the record straight (Moore’s Distortions). The 9/11 movie is more of the same. I got a pirated copy from an odashi in the ville and watched it. Better my money going to odashi then to Moore.

The 9/11 movie goes even more overboard then Bowling for Columbine. Plenty of distortions and falsehoods and playing on the emotions of the viewers. Showing a mom who lost a kid in Iraq is heart breaking. However why didn’t he put somebody on there who lost a kid in Iraq who was proud their child died in defense of the country. Not everyone who lost a kid in the war is bitter at the government.

Also showing the horrors of war is nothing new. Yeah lots of Iraqis died in that war and when they die they don’t just spin around and drop to the floor like in the Ikari Warriors Nintendo game. They get blown to bits. Yes children die too. Especially when they are running ammunition to enemy combatants. I know all of this because I was there unlike Moore. Having spent all the time I spent there I can tell you things are not as bad as the media makes it out to be. Things got so much better while I was there. When I came back and was able to read something other than the Stars and Stripes and watch the news I could not believe how things were being portrayed. But that is a whole other story. To checkout the lies in this movie checkout these links, NY Post (Moore’s Myths), the Slate (Moore Article), heck even the liberal Newsweek ran an article blasting the movie (Moore’s Distortions).

I know a few of the bloggers in Korea have watched the movie and liked it but what I found a little bit disturbing was that they commented on how Koreans asked them what is wrong with the American government. This movie through many falsehoods and straight lies is creating more anti-Americanism out there. Don’t we have enough already? I am not a big Bush supporter but movie like this do not convince me to vote for Kerry. Ideas and vision from John Kerry would get me to vote for him.

Bush has got vision maybe not always a great vision but he puts himself out there to be criticized for it which I can respect unlike John Kerry who doesn’t want you to know what he believes. Is he worried Americans won’t like what he believes? But the bottom line is that both these guys are boneheads and uninspirational and whoever gets elected doesn’t mean much because nothing will chagne because they are both part of the set establishment. It is not in their interests to change things.

The only one who would of changed things was Howard Dean and the establishment ganged up on him. Dean I respected more than any of them. He had vision which once again wasn’t always a good one but he put himself out there to see who he is. I can respect that.