tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post110301955162341769..comments2023-11-05T08:01:10.010+00:00Comments on Think of England: Unfairenheit 9/11 - a Hitch hatchet jobBrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1103105839923581992004-12-15T10:17:00.000+00:002004-12-15T10:17:00.000+00:00Very good summary of Moore, Andrew. I agree with a...Very good summary of Moore, Andrew. I agree with almost all of what you say.<br /><br />But... "all the intelligence from every country asserted that Saddam did have WMDs"? I suppose so, in that "assert" in debating terms means "claims without evidence". On the contrary, most intelligence sources didn't seriously believe he had any WMDs at the time of the invasion last year. Had them in the past martpolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08508497057736355841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1103045370681614272004-12-14T17:29:00.000+00:002004-12-14T17:29:00.000+00:00Martin -
Yes, that "everyman working his way thr...Martin - <br /><br />Yes, that "everyman working his way through the issues with wide-eyed disbelief" approach is what saves Bowling for Columbine from being a complete waste of time.<br /><br />In that he started out with the belief that the proliferation of guns was the chief reason for the high murder rate in the US. When he went to Canada and found that it had just as many guns but none of Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-1103042723752194132004-12-14T16:45:00.000+00:002004-12-14T16:45:00.000+00:00Yep, there’s a number of very valid points here (w...Yep, there’s a number of very valid points here (which tend to support my opinion that Michael Moore is a better writer than he is a film-maker). Clearly Moore does use footage unfairly, does have internal inconsistencies and has completely changed his opinion about important things (not that this is necessarily a fault – after all, his whole self-image is “everyman working his way through the martpolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08508497057736355841noreply@blogger.com