Finally Watched Fahrenheit 9/11
The usual Michael Moore crap. OK, that's unfair; there's actually a lot of powerful stuff in the movie. Especially the Lipscombs grieving for their fallen son. That's one of the things that kills me about Michael Moore: I know some non-trivial portion of his movies are either outright lies or gross distortions, but not what portion or which parts are, and so I find myself doubting the whole thing, which means I'm doubting things which are in fact true. Grrrr....
I can't help but wonder what Michael Moore would've done with, say, the Battle of Bastogne. The American military leadership caught totally unawares by the German counter-attack. The exhausted 101st Airborne, having faced virtually non-stop fighting in Normandy and Holland since D-Day, is thrown, unequipped, into the frozen forests in a desperate attempt to stop the German advance. Soldiers spend Christmas 1944 freezing in half-dug foxholes, griping about Stimpson and their desire to get him fired, complaining about why it's kids from West Philly or Nowheresville, Iowa, rather than Roosevelt's boys dying in Belgium. And did you know that the Republic of Greater Germania had never killed a single American?
I can't help but wonder what Michael Moore would've done with, say, the Battle of Bastogne. The American military leadership caught totally unawares by the German counter-attack. The exhausted 101st Airborne, having faced virtually non-stop fighting in Normandy and Holland since D-Day, is thrown, unequipped, into the frozen forests in a desperate attempt to stop the German advance. Soldiers spend Christmas 1944 freezing in half-dug foxholes, griping about Stimpson and their desire to get him fired, complaining about why it's kids from West Philly or Nowheresville, Iowa, rather than Roosevelt's boys dying in Belgium. And did you know that the Republic of Greater Germania had never killed a single American?
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