Thursday, January 7, 2010

Fahrenheit 9/11

Based on Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian novel whose title is based on the autoignition temperature of paper (Books are banned in this book.), Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 gives a chilling expose into the events in the Bush administration surrounding 9/11. It shows how close the Bush administration is to the Saudi Arabian royal family (16 of the 20 hijackers were Saudi), and just how poorly the Afghanistan War was managed. Did you know that we sent a mere 11,000 troops over to Afghanistan originally. In addition to giving Osama bin Laden and the Taliban a 2-month head start to hide out in the mountains, we TRAINED the Taliban back in the 80's to kill the Soviets. It also documents the Bush administration artificially raising terror alert levels to control the populace using fear. Sounds an awful lot like TERRORism, doesn't it? It also exposes the lies surrounding the (pat)Riot Act, the Iraq War, and why we flew the bin Laden family out of the country three days after 9/11 without even asking them any questions. It also investigates how the Bush administration censored 28 pages of the 9/11 report, and how they're very shady about how the administration failed to connect the dots, and how he spent 42% of his time on vacation. At the beginning of the movie, it uncovers the shady aspects of the 2000 election, such as the fact that the person at Fixed Noise (Fox News) who called the election for Bush was Bush's first cousin, the fact that Bush's family had ties to the company which made the voting machines, and many more. It uncovers the near-dictatorship we had under President Bush and his cronies, and how shady the previous administration was. It's the best horror movie I've ever seen

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