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Old May 18th, 2004, 09:34 AM

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Default Completely OT : Cannes, Mickael Moore and the Iraq War

Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 is the event of the day at the Cannes Festival. This is an inquiry into the Bush government's foreign policy, especialy when dealing with the pre-2001 relations between the white house and Bin Laden Clan. No need to say that the bush administration made all they could to prevent this movie to be distributed in the States before the elections.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr..._id=1000510632

Another very contreversial US documentary is presented in Cannes today : "Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War"

http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle2285.html

From Cannes, for "shrapnel news international",
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I read "Dude, where's my country" and the realtionship between the bush family and the Saudi Arabians (Bin Ladens in particular) certainly does throw an interesting spin on the whole 11/9 business and the US' recent activities in the middle east.

I'll be very interested to see that film.

Trooper, what is the festival like for a local like you? Do you get to see all the films and schmooze with the stars? If you see Angelina Jolie, tell her I said "hi".
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Old May 18th, 2004, 10:28 AM

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The festival has no interest if you're not a VIP or a luxuary shop owner... All interesting places can't be accessed if you don't have a press accreditation.
The festival palace is secured by dozains of policemen when the actors get in, and you can't hardly see anything if you don't wait for hours to have a good place.

But Cannes is a realy a nice place to live... the rest of year. A bit like the californian coast, I think. It's also very hard to buy a flat (don't even think of buying a house !).
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Check the references, check the facts.
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An anti-Bush movie at Cannes. What a risk-taker that Moore fellow is.
Yeah, really. He should have shown it at that big conservative film festival... Uh... the ummm... Great Texan Film Festival Chili Cookoff Gun and Doll Show. But he lacks the huevos.
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Yeah, really. He should have shown it at that big conservative film festival... Uh... the ummm... Great Texan Film Festival Chili Cookoff Gun and Doll Show. But he lacks the huevos.
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I don't think guys such as M. Moore fears polemic...

But there has been a real attempt of censorship from the US governement concerning this documentary. What does the gov. fear, if all this document is pure bull**** ? And does the US constitution still ensures freedom of speech for everyone ? That's questions I would ask to myself if I was an US citizen...

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That M. Moore movie is not pure bull****, just something every idiot with below average IQ could think of.
But it could have some impact on the avarage American, as retardation seems to be the standard there, believing everything GW Bush and CNN proclaim.
A LOT of people believed the story of mass destruction weapens as in nukes with uranium purchased from "Africa". What a joke.
Not that I hold anything against USA citizens, just that the mass is quite stupid.

The war in Iraq is escalating, like in Afghanistan, now it's time to focus on something totally different, withdrawing the attention from the Iraq war.
Maybe it's time to "liberate" North-Korea???
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Maybe it's time to "liberate" North-Korea???
Doubtful. In fact the news today is we are pulling 3k+ troops out of S. Korea and sending them to Iraq. For what it's worth I think Iraq has/will do a lot towards showing us our limitations. At the begining of this we heard a lot of reckless talk about taking the war to Iran and Syria after Iraq. We don't hear that talk anymore much thankfully.
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i do not like Mr. Moore either.

But I do like the fact that he makes you think and ask questions.

That alone makes his stuff worth while.
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