Anyone Seen F 911?

All the incessent talk of the filmmakers "lies" reminds me of the great scene in John Sayles' Lianna when a teacher puts up a long quote saying something to the effect of STOP WORLD COMMUNISM NOW, and through a series of edits in the text transforms it into the Communist Manifesto. This was shown in response to a student's complaint about point of view in documentary.

That is filmmaking, and art -the act of editing.

That is not government. Government's job is establish justice, promote the general welfare, adn secure the blessings of Liberty, etc.

Citizen monitoring of the government is far more important than fact checking entertainment figures. That's like Democrats lambasting Rush Limbaugh while Clinton "fast tracked" NAFTA and paid the organization later to be called qaeda to fight in Bosnia.

It's not a left/right democrat/republican thing. Its about fighting for the Republic, for American justice, for our Democratic birthright, something neither of the Bonesmen running for office really care about.

Take your foaming at lips and direct at the REAL criminals -the supporters of the PATRIOT Act, the men and women who piss on the Bill of Rights (the President can now have you SECRETLY ARRESTED without probable cause), and those who engage in foreign adventurism in the worst Executive cronyism since Warren G. Harding.

"The Passion of the Christ" earned $85 million in its first weekend.

Folks from other countries and the "ashamed" 50% of Americans that Harvey Human speaks of (I'm not sure where he's getting some of his numbers) have little knowledge of the history of how this country came into being and what it takes to preserve a nation based upon those principals generated from the colonial break from tyranny. When I was young, I did not want to die. Not for a country, not for an ancient deity, not for anything. Now I feel pretty fortunate that I live in a place where the draft has been abolished yet I still have the ability to vote, speak and write freely and travel from one side of the country to the other without fear. And I can worship that ancient deity without fear of persecution or death (doing it without ridicule is another matter, however).

This president may not be as eloquent as previously highly-regarded and highly-revered presidents have been, but he is plain-speaking and resolute. Abraham Lincoln hated getting in front of crowds and public speaking. Theodore Roosevelt had a high squeaky voice. If George W. Bush is guilty of being cautious with his words and a few grammatical transpositions, God help me if ever have to speak before any of you.

It befuddles me that pages of diatribes have been argued here over some raw connection between the Bushes and the Saudi family in the days after 9-11, that the war on Iraq is still being prosecuted on these strings days after the handover, and yet no one is concerned about the seepage of chemical weapons to Syria, chest-beating in Iran, and continued starvation in North Korea. Bush made his "Axis of Evil" address over two years ago. He called attention to the fact that we need to be focused. Not patriotic, not vitriolic, not non-commital. Focused.

Think about this when you speak of how the French or some other some-such nation "hates" us. If they really hated us so much, and disagreed with our positions and beliefs so strongly, why didn't they stop us? Suppose that Operation Restoring Freedom was unilateral (40 countries went into Iraq with us, by the way). Would the French and Germans have stopped us? The French didn't stop the Germans in WWII. They sided with whoever was on the winning side. Why should we take such stock in what they say?

At the risk of being regionalist, I must say you folks in Canada and California are dogging the wrong guy. You're inevitably biting the hand that feeds you. George W. Bush is not the enemy. The terrorists who flew those planes into the World Trade Center towers are the enemy. Saddam Hussein was the enemy. Colin Powell is not the enemy. The madrassas are the enemy. Donald Rumsfeld (who by the way, ran to the fire when Flight 77 hit the Pentagon) is not the enemy. The wild-eyed mullahs who hold sway over their illiterate congregations are our enemies. Folks in those countries do not have 2nd Amendment rights. They cannot defend themselves from a state that imposes its tyranny at will. If they all hate us, then the culture needs to be changed. To change the culture, we have to start with a state.

I have a wife and child, but if I am called, by God I will go, just as my father and great uncle did in WWII. Without them, who knows what the state of affairs would be now.

CF