Plan "B"

OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL MOORE:

Michael Moore, you now have ten dollars of mine, and I want it back. I saw F-9/11 last night with a friend. I was expecting to be enlightened, informed and educated, but instead I was subjected to a two-hour barrage of one sided scripts, video, monologues and sound bites so choppy and short that no one could determine their context.

Oh, Mr. Moore - how you missed the point. How you missed such an opportunity to show the facts for what they were. How you - well - blew it.

I don't blame you for chastising my commander-in-chief for sitting there in a classroom full of children with no clue as to what to do after hearing the events of September 11th unfold, but did you know that the attacks were planned during the Clinton administration - with more intel and preventive opportunity available to Clinton than Bush?

I don't blame you for showing the poor, the homeless, the jobless of America and saying it's a crying shame that all these people lost their jobs, but did you know that the ressession started during the Clinton administration - with more pro-business (and therefore pro-employement) bills being passed by Bush than Clinton?

I don't blame you for saying that the war in Iraq was unfounded, but is it possible that if we had not ousted Saddam when we did, the next administration would be carried out in a bunker. Granted, I would have done things MUCH differently, but as long as we've have picked this fight - we're going to have to finish it. Like it or not, and crying over spilled milk is, well...you know the saying.

Here are two key points you missed. One, Saudi Arabia is not our friend. I've been saying that for years, but your portrayal of Bush and the Saudis as being friends (while accurate) misses the point completely. Two, you can't make a documentary with the Middle East in the focus without discussing our relationship with Israel. Well, maybe you can - because you also completely missed this.

It's complicated, and I don't pretend to know all the facts. Nobody does, and you certainly don't. The trouble seems to be that you attempted to over simplify the situation so the Democrats in America can be spoon feed what you're saying.
By the way, the Orwellian quote at the end? Here's my Orwell to English translation:

• It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
  
  
  • Um, that's why wars are numbered - because they end. World War I, World War II, see a pattern here? It's only recently that television anchors have found a need to give wars names like "Cold War", "Gulf War", etc... It makes for flashier headlines.
  
  
  
  
• Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.
  • The glass is half empty, and I don't care to focus on the part of the glass that has anything in it.
  
  
  
• This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed.
  
  • What's past is past. Resistance is futile. All Your Base Are Belong To Us. Pick a doomsday quote.
  
  
  
• In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation.
  
  • I'm jobless and I need somebody to blame instead of myself. What's worse is that when I join the Army to make money - I'm required to be in the infantry. I can't be a cook or a clerk or anything - 'cause then I can't shoot people.
  
  
  
• The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.
  
  • What part of Imperialism don't you understand? Capitalism works. Occassionally, war is used as a tool. There, I said it.
    
  
  
  As far as who I want to see in the White House next year: "Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t."