« More Underground Cinema | Main | When Blogging Goes Bad »
September 12, 2004
McCain on Moore
Just a quick link to the text of John McCain's speech at the RNC on Monday, August 30. I'm writing a short review essay on documentary film and want to mention his cut on Michael Moore:
The years of keeping Saddam in a box were coming to a close. The international consensus that he be kept isolated and unarmed had eroded to the point that many critics of military action had decided the time had come again to do business with Saddam, despite his near daily attacks on our pilots, and his refusal, until his last day in power, to allow the unrestricted inspection of his arsenal.Michael Moore was present at the convention, of course, and the story received a lot of attention, specifically because of the "unusual" mix of politics and filmmaking, as John Nichols' piece in The Capital Times illustrates.Our choice wasn't between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war. It was between war and a graver threat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our critics abroad. Not our political opponents.
And certainly not a disingenuous film maker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribable cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls.
Posted by chuck at September 12, 2004 9:14 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.wordherders.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.fpl/2404