Michael Moore Quotes
I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate
Bush had been allowed to join the Texas Air National Guard which meant that he did not have to serve in combat in Vietnam the way most other men his age did. However, there were no records of his having reported for duty during several months when he was to be in service. Bush claimed that he was on duty and there was no action taken against him by the then authorities which detractors attribute to his father’s high position and supporters refer to as evidence of the fact that he did nothing wrong. He had been arrested for drunk driving, and the WMD dispute has ever since raged of whether he had been honestly misled by bad intelligence. Bush was not a functional illiterate but had been a college graduate and had completed graduate school studies. He was a poor public speaker and was not an intellectually curious man and did not read much, but this was a huge exaggeration.
Michael Moore, Filmmaker, Writer & Political Activist, Attack on President George W, Bush
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He was referring to writer and filmmaker Michael Moore who was one of the President’s most vocal and caustic critics. See {615194} for an example.
Bush had stated when he was running for President that he was opposed to placing America’s nuclear waste in the Nevada mountain which was very unpopular with Nevada voters, but once in the Presidency he changed his position. The reason might have been that there was no backup plan to Yucca Mountain that Bush could select. It was wither Nevada or back to the drawing board with radioactive waste piling up each day.
Ford gave the confidential interview under the condition that it would not be made public until after he passed away. It was published by the Washington Post on December 26, 2006 just after Ford died. Ex-President’s are very reluctant to criticize a current President---especially on a foreign policy issue.
This quotation has been used to illustrate a number of points. First is illustrates the fundamentalist Islamic view, not terribly different from a fundamentalist Christian view, that God punishes man for his sins be producing natural disasters. Second that the foreign policy of America is sinful per se. However, what is interesting is that Sallah is an Israeli citizen who not only heads a movement opposed to Israel but like any other Israeli citizen has a freedom of the press the is unknown in any Islamic country. Sallah and his Muslim coreligionists living in Israel, together with the Muslims living in the hated West, are the only Muslims in the world who have total freedom of speech, thought, expression and conscience.
President George W. Bush, to justify the invasion of Iraq had told the public that the Iraqi regime was developing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and had participated in the September 11 attack on the United States by assisting Al Qaeda. It turned out that these statements were false. The administration claimed that their error was well intentioned and the result of faulty intelligence. Opponents claimed that the administration officials knew that they were exaggerating and had pressured the intelligence agencies to create intelligence conclusions that supported their story.
President George W. Bush, to justify the invasion of Iraq had told the public that the Iraqi regime was developing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and had participated in the September 11 attack on the United States by assisting Al Qaeda. It turned out that these statements were false. The administration claimed that their error was well intentioned and the result of faulty intelligence. Opponents claimed that the administration officials knew that they were exaggerating and had pressured the intelligence agencies to create intelligence conclusions that supported their story.
In the razor thin 2000 Presidential election the Republican controlled Florida legislator called a special session to name their own electors to go to the electoral college. The Governor, Jeb Bush, was the brother of the Republican candidate.
In 2002, President George W. Bush, determined to invade Iraq and bring democracy to the Muslim Middle East, reported that Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and were very close to a nuclear bomb. They had even used biological weapons against Iran and the Kurdish minority in Iraq. The president claimed that the evidence was incontrovertible and removed those generals who questioned the wisdom of an Iraq invasion and besmirched the character and patriotism of those civilian officials and figures who questioned the evidence or its sources. After the invasion, it turned out that there were not only no stockpiles of WMD but there was no capability to manufacture WMD as had existed before the Gulf War. Bush claimed he was misled by the CIA and other intelligence operatives. It turned out that the Vice President and other administration officials only examined the intelligence which supported their justification for war.
See {618460} for the kinds of statements that stimulated this type of political attack.
Although there were many irregularities in the 2000 election and many thought that Bush was not the rightful winner, Nadar’s statement is ironic. He entered the race as the Green Party Nominee and siphoned off many more votes from Gore than from Bush. In Florida, the pivotal state, Gore lost by less than 600 votes and but for Nader, Gore would have won and become President. Then for him to later blame Bush’s maneuvers for Gore’s defeat, ignoring his own determinative role struck most observers as the height of selective analysis.
- Born: April 23, 1954
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Filmmaker, Author
Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker, author, and activist. His works frequently address the topics of globalization and capitalism.
