Moore the Fool

[rikzilla]

This theme keeps coming up, I notice. Not just in this film, either.

I also grew up poor. I also joined the US Army for career training and higher education money. Many many thousands have taken this same gamble for the same reasons. My veteran status and Army training were what started me on a career in telecommunications that started after my ETS in 1982 and continues to this day. My VA loan guarantees have been used to purchase two homes.

Sure, the fact that children of the poor and middle classes make up most of the soldiers is unfair. But that fact has nothing to do with the justness or unjustness of the war in Iraq. That Mr. Moore attempts to link the two is logically fallacious. Not only that, there are allegations that his interview with the mother was highly edited...and that the letter she read to Moore from her son was also edited to remove optomistic/positive coments about the war.

-z

 

[Roadtoad]

This theme keeps coming up, I notice. Not just in this film, either.

The point has been made in places other than this film, and according to the critics, with greater eloquence.

I also lived it. Like Rik, I bought my home with a VA guaranteed loan, and further, I was the son of a man who furthered his education with help from the U. S. Army, and in addition, my father fought in a war that was well beneath him. My son has also gone to war and returned, and like his grandfather, finds the cost was not worth what we've claimed we've gained.

As I said before, I found Roger and Me to be unwatchable. I'll probably go see F911 just because the Round Mound of Sound is upset with it.

But there are far more eloquent speakers on this subject. Funny, but most of them have actually gone to war, and many have fought in this one. Personally, I think they've got more to say.

 

[RandFan]

Re: Re: Moore the Fool

He (Moore) is by no means, however, a Rush Limbaugh. [/B]

He is far worse than Limbaugh in this instance. He has strung together facts in such a way as to paint a false picture and he is advancing demonstrably false conspiracy theories. I don't remember Rush ever embracing conspiracy theories. On the contrary I have heard Rush attack such theories when it would have been seemingly advantageous politically to support them.

 

[crimresearch]

"....As I said before, I found Roger and Me to be unwatchable. I'll probably go see F911 just because the Round Mound of Sound is upset with it."

Uhhmm..'The Round Mound of Sound' is the slogan of a well known Virginia Beach on air personality, going back quite some time...I doubt if he would care to be compared to Limbaugh.