Only Michael Moore could make President Bush appear to be one of life’s victims. Here is an assessment that will not be printed in Moore’s book — if you want to read a highly critical work that has some ‘backup and evidence’ about US dependence on Saudi Arabia go to the source and read Craig Unger’s House of Bush, House of Saud and leave Moore’s derivative efforts mixed with scaremongering to ‘the annals of cinema’.
A better work, perhaps because he did not write much of it, is a selection of letters from troops and their families who have found the experience of serving in Iraq disillusioning. Moore has collected some of those addressed to him in a short, sad, tome entitled Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Whatever might be said about the partisan extremes to which Moore takes his campaigning journalism, he has become a hero to many who grew up in places like his depressed hometown of Flint, Michigan. These are people who feel ignored or betrayed by the ‘beltway’ concerns of the country’s political elite. Moore is their champion. That many of the soldiers cannot wait to leave Iraq cannot be doubted. Frankly, it would be more concerning if they were loving every moment of it. Yet the issue of trust is indeed an important one. One struggles to invest much of it in Donald Rumsfeld. Alas, the same can be said of Michael Moore.
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