In a still from one of many true-colors-revealing clips shown in "Fahrenheit 9/11," George W. Bush tells what CBS News calls a "diamond-studded $800-a-plate crowd" at an October 2000 fundraiser: "This is an impressive crowd: The haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites; I call you my base." (This is supposed to be funny, and the "have-mores," all or most of whom are white, all laugh.)
"F9/11": The second time is as good as the first time
Today I saw "Fahrenheit 9/11" for the second time. (I saw it when it was released on June 25 and reviewed it here.) I wanted to see it on the big screen one more time before it is supposed to hit DVD next month, just in time for the presidential election on Nov. 2.
An advantage of watching Michael Moore's excellent documentary again is that the first time you watch it you're hit with a lot at once, and the second time you have the opportunity to more thoroughly digest the film.
After my second viewing of "Fahrenheit" today, I have come to two inescapable conclusions (based not just on "Fahrenheit," but also upon what I know of the Bush regime's actions of the past four years):
1. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are traitors. They and/or family members and friends, business associates and/or campaign contributors have personally profited from the Bush regime's unprovoked, immoral, illegal and imperialistic March 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, which had absolutely nothing to do with the post-Sept. 11, 2001 "war on terrorism."
To add insult to injury, the Bush family for years has had close business ties with the Saudis, and the Bush family and the Saudis have both profited from Gulf War II through their financial interests in the Carlyle Group. Think about it: "President" Bush gets a memo on Aug. 6, 2001, that Osama bin Laden (originally of Saudi Arabia) is determined to strike within the United States -- soon. Bush is on vacation, so he doesn't do shit. Although 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and not one of them was from Iraq, the Bush regime shoves its March 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq down Americans' and down the world's throats.
Almost 1,000 American military personnel and thousands of innocent Iraqis have died in order to make Dick Cheney's Halliburton and the Bush family's Carlyle Group -- and the Saudi elite -- even richer.
As governor of Texas, George W. Bush was big on the death penalty.
While I am generally opposed to the death penalty, I would not at all be opposed to the death penalty for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the others within the Bush regime who clearly committed treason: Lying to the American people and to the world in order to conduct a bogus war for their and their associates' war profiteering, which resulted in the unnecessary loss of thousands of American and Iraqi lives.
I have also concluded that those who support the treasonous, murderous BushCheneyCorp will inhabit A Special Place in Hell, right next to The Special Place in Hell for Bush, Cheney, et. al. Exactly how hot the BushCheneyCorp's aiders', abettors' and supporters' Special Place in Hell will be will depend upon the degree of their support for the treasonous, murderous BushCheneyCorp.
2. Michael Moore has helped to do something that the clueless, impotent Democratic Party has been utterly unable and/or unwilling to do during the past four years: Rescue the nation's heart and soul from the darkness of the Bush regime, which took advantage of a national tragedy to perpetrate crimes of its own, resulting in even more death and destruction.
How Moore goes on in the face of attacks from even so-called "liberals" who have never lifted a fucking finger to help anyone I have no idea. I would love to have just a fraction of Moore's fortitude.
Whether or not the Democratic Party has redeemed itself from its complicity in the horrors of the second Bush regime is way too early to judge. Right now the Democratic Party has a lot of help from the likes of Moore, MoveOn.org, Air America Radio, Howard Dean's supporters, bloggers, et. al., et. al.
Fact is, the reason there are so many groups and individuals helping out the Democratic Party for the 2004 presidential election is that we all have seen how impotent the Democratic Party has been since it rolled over and played dead in late 2000 when the Bush regime stole the election in Florida.
We knew that left on its own, the Democratic Party would likely fuck up yet another election, so we couldn't -- and didn't -- leave the critically important 2004 presidential election solely to the Democratic Party, which certainly during the past four years hasn't earned our progressives' allegiance.
I don't think that the Democratic Party could win in November if it weren't for the help of the likes of Michael Moore and MoveOn.org and those, like me, who are on loan from the Green Party -- yet, of course, the crusty, incompetent, out-of-touch Democratic Party operatives who should have resigned long ago (which is most Democratic Party operatives) will take all of the credit should the Kerry-Edwards ticket win, as I suspect that it will.
The rhetoric of the Democratic National Convention last month sounded great, but until the Democratic Party actually returns to what it used to be, that's all that it is: Rhetoric.
And if the Democratic Party is to continue to win elections past this November, it sorely needs to be reformed, and that reform is unlikely to come from within.
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