Saturday May 19, 2007, 12:31 pm
The film played to a packed-out crowd in the film festival's biggest, 2000-seat theatre.

It was also the first of two non-fiction US films shown - A-list star Leonardo DiCaprio was on hand to present his own pet project, the documentary The 11th Hour, about man's impact on the environment.

In Sicko, Moore flays a health system that, he shows, leaves 50 million Americans without access to medical care - and which even cruelly pulls the rug out from under many of those who mistakenly think they are properly covered.

The documentary fires off side shots at US President George W. Bush, the follow-up to the September 11, 2001 attacks and the Iraq war - all subjects of predilection for Moore, who won Cannes's Palme d'Or in 2004 for Fahrenheit 9/11.

This time, the filmmaker has landed in hot water for a stunt in Sicko in which he takes a group of ailing September 11 emergency workers to Cuba, where they receive medical treatment.

The US Government has opened a probe into the trip, which potentially breaches its laws restricting US citizens from visiting the communist island.

“I don't know why the Bush administration is taking this action,” Moore told journalists after the screening.

"It's hard to get into their heads about why they do anything... This is an administration that flaunts the law, flaunts the Constitution.

"The point was not to go to Cuba, it was to go to American soil, to Guantanamo Bay and to take 9/11 rescue workers there to receive the same medical care given to the Al-Qaeda detainees."

But the group doesn't enter the Guantanamo US military base, and instead gets good care from Cuban doctors in a hospital.

Moore also heads to other countries - Canada, Britain and France - to show how their national state-run health systems, often derided as “socialist” in the US, offer a far superior level of care than the US one.

The problem in America is that private Health Maintenance Organisations run the system (under legislation brought in by president Richard Nixon) - and they do so by limiting coverage and payments, and by “buying off” politicians, the documentary alleges.

“They are legally required to maximise profits for their shareholders,” Moore noted, adding that he feared any reform that might come in under a new president could simply end up putting “tax dollars in the hands of private companies”.

The real solution, he opined, was to “steal” what worked in other Western countries and apply that to the US.

Asked whether he was prepared for the inevitable backlash from the deep-pocketed US medical insurance companies, Moore admitted “they may be a scarier force than Karl Rove or George Bush” but added: “It is my profound hope that people will listen to this film.”

Moore said he declined to have his film shown in the line up vying for the Palme d'Or this year.

“I already have the Palme d'Or. What do I want? Another Palme d'Or?” asked the filmmaker, who also picked up an Oscar in 2002 for Bowling for Columbine.

Stephen Schaefer, a US critic for the Boston Globe newspaper, hailed the new movie and predicted it might do even bigger US box office business than Fahrenheit 9/11.

While the facts Sicko laid out make him "sad as an American,” Schaefer said it was “a very strong and very honest documentary about a health system that's totally corrupt and that is without any care for its patients”.

Saturday May 19, 2007, 12:35 pm
How many other laws has the US Government broken...the constitiution is a joike, the health care system doesn't work, people who think they are covered, find they are not..and then the Government says Michael Moore took the 9/11 workers to Cuba illegally, because it is against the law for Americans to go to Cuba. Now if the Australian Government told us it was against the law to travel somewhere, we would call it communism...What do the Americans call it....The worker were treated with proper Health Care in Cuba which they have been denied in America..their own Country where they risked their own lives to save people on 9/11 has turned their back on them...Why..because the American Government is made up of liars, spineless useless idiots like Bush who should be taken out and shot like an animal.

Saturday May 19, 2007, 12:50 pm
No offence to animals was intended there..Bush is below an Animal...Animals treat human kindly...Bush doesn't.

Saturday May 19, 2007, 1:21 pm
Thanx Helene. Noted.
Love & Light

Saturday May 19, 2007, 1:34 pm
we...humans...& and animals alike, are ALL part of the same taxodermy family.... KINGDOM-ANIMAL- MAMALIA...unless someone thinks we are plant or mineral.

Saturday May 19, 2007, 1:39 pm
Michael Moore is the SICKO!!!

Saturday May 19, 2007, 2:15 pm
CONservatives hate Michael Moore - which means he must be doing something right!:)

Saturday May 19, 2007, 3:07 pm
the Man speaks the truth !

Saturday May 19, 2007, 4:18 pm

Good ones Yvonne and Pete! I totally agree.

Saturday May 19, 2007, 7:08 pm
I enjoy Michael Moore because he makes people think and he makes them talk about issues. but he certainly has his own agendas. The promotion of Michael Moore and his agendas being top of the list. His movies are not in any way unbiaised, factual reporting, but they are entertaining an hopefully make people question issues.

Saturday May 19, 2007, 7:26 pm

Karen, I agree totally. Considering the very biased news we (Americans) receive from our government, I feel his "decidedly slanted" views are an excellent balance.

Thank you for your inciseness (as always).

Saturday May 19, 2007, 7:27 pm
"incisiveness" *blushdown*

Saturday May 19, 2007, 7:29 pm

(Bear with me . . . my fingers are quicker than my brain -- and neither have any kind of speed record.

Saturday May 19, 2007, 10:40 pm
PEOPLE HATE MICHAEL MOORE BECAUSE HE TELLS THE TRUTH AND HE PUTS MOVIES OUT THERE FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO SEE FOR PEOPLE TO THINK ABOUT WHATS GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY. SO I SAY KUDOS TO MICHAEL!!!!

Saturday May 19, 2007, 11:26 pm
Kudos to Mike as well!! Keep spreading the truth! And it's true about the healthcare system in Canada, France and Britain... far superior...

Sunday May 20, 2007, 12:27 pm
Michael Moore is no sicko! He speaks the truth, and forces people to think about what's happening in this world! More power to him!

Sunday May 20, 2007, 3:54 pm
I agree with Ana, MICHAEL MOORE IS NO sicko, and aside of all these truths he is unveiling and we know are, obvious. As I was reading this article in HOTMAIL, I was so rudely interupted by Windows Internet Explorer provided by Yahoo, with an excuse that I did not pay attention to, but a thought crossed my mind. I seem to have an asumption that someone out there might know I am reading the truth said here and was interrupted because they do not want me to read it. What do you think?

Sunday May 20, 2007, 4:04 pm

Ya know, Janie, you may have a point. Given the direction this government is taking, I wouldn't put it past them to concentrate BILLIONS of dollars monitoring the average citizen, when they should be concentrating on the obvious evils.

(chuckle)

Sunday May 20, 2007, 5:32 pm
When reading the article about the movie, and the health systems in France, the UK, and Canada, it was all I could do not to cry! Not that I wasn't aware of the difference before....we really have it bad here. And the war goes on......

Sunday May 20, 2007, 9:58 pm
I've been following the progress of Michele's film efforts through Mind Freedom, a great organization that advocates for the disabled and protects the mentally Ill's rights. I'm very happy to finally see it hit the airways. YOU MUST SEE THIS FILM!!! IT WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT ALLOT OF THINGS AND "OPEN YOUR EYES". A MUST SEE!!!!!!

Monday May 21, 2007, 12:23 am
Yes I can't wait for it to come to Australia..it is not due to be released here for some time. So I might have to buy a copy off the US internet when it comes out.. if that is possible. I am a member of Real Player so I do get movies a bit quicker but I would like to see a full screen in a Cinema when it comes to Australia...I guess like 9/11 Farenheit it will be at least 6 months before we get to see it ..Please anyone who sees it keep me updated.

Monday May 21, 2007, 10:59 am
We have been propagandized since childhood that the U.S. is ALWAYS "The Best" in everything. A lot of Americans STILL think, that rotten as our Health Care system is, it STILL is "The Best" in the world; and that any glitches are just maybe happining in isolated instances. This is part of "The Myth of American Specialness". It it part of some American's self-esteem, to think in spite of ALL evidence to the contrary, their country is ALWAYS and forever "The Best". The Right-wing has a way of making capital out of this NONSENSICAL belief. But, REALITY has a way of biting people in the ass. ESPECIALLY, when they or their loved ones get sick.THEN, the scales have a way of falling from their eyes.

Monday May 21, 2007, 11:59 am
The CORRUPT Health Care and EQUALLY CORRUPT Insurance Industries, which are hand-in-glove with the CORRUPT Bush and RepugliCON mis-Administration, are SQUIRMING at being FOUND OUT and NAILED. They will stop at NOTHING to "discredit" the film. A FAVORITE tactic, is to present Michael Moore as an "EGOTIST". Well, WE SURE NEED A LOT MORE EGOTISTS LIKE MICHAEL MOORE!!! Michael Moore is EGOTISTICAL enough, to present himself as a FAR, FAR BETTER HUMAN BEING than the TOTALLY CORRUPT CEOs of the mega-bucks industries he attacks. Those CEOs aren't "Egotists" like Michael Moore, oh no; they are just LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK as they pocket the dollars squeezed out of the poor suckers who are so unfortunate as to get sick and fall into their clutches! Or buy their WORTHLESS insurance that, when push comes to shove, OF COURSE DOESN'T PAY WHAT WAS PROMISED! Suckers! Watch OUT for dangerous "Egotists" like Michael Moore!

Monday May 21, 2007, 12:27 pm
The health care system in this country is a disgrace. I dread going to the emergency room because it costs me $100. to get treatment...I can't afford that! It's bad enough we have to pay to see our doctor as well as pay for health insurance...reform reform reform, that's definitely needed and until the people get control of things this isn't going to stop.

Monday May 21, 2007, 2:14 pm

Joey, that is sooooo sad -- but true. For a short time, while putting together my ex-husband's and my auction company, I took work as a telemarketer for a company that contributes a percentange of their proceeds to non-profit organizations. The majority of people home during the day are unemployed or elderly people living on fixed incomes. I can't tell you how many times I sat (shaking my head) and listening to these people explain to me that they often had do choose between food and necessary drugs because they could not afford both.

Shame on America!

Monday May 21, 2007, 4:18 pm
We no longer have the best health care system in the world, I'm sad to say, all of us are paying for it! Even those of us with insurance are not assured of decent care, and our vets get some of the worst and some of the best depending on where they reside. I am afraid of getting really sick and depending on the health care system in TX because it is too spotty, to be depended upon and you don't know what your insurance company covers until you REALLY NEED IT! Princess of Catman, I thought being Catman's Princess you might know better than to trust whatever you hear about Micahel Moore. Yes, he's a Liberal, and so am I. I hope you don't buy that this means he and I are BAD people. He is not, and neither am I or the other proud liberals on this site. We are trying to save other people like you who believe everything you've been spoon fed about America - just THINK and READ-the accidents happening in hospitals are happening where YOU live, too because it is not safe there either. Our health system is 20th in the world-20th - not first. Wake up, you aren't sleeping beauty! Unless the wrong dr. puts you out. NOTED

Monday May 21, 2007, 5:01 pm
God Bless Mr. Moore for being a champion of truth.

Monday May 21, 2007, 5:59 pm
I am looking forward to viewing Michael Moore's latest film "Sicko". I suspect that most aware, intelligent Americans already know from personal experience, or their perusal of various news media, about the rampant U.S. Healthcare FIASCO , the F.D.A. conspiracy, and the pharmaceutical industry monopolies. The extremely poor medical "care" Americans have to choose from to BUY, is shameful--the HMO's are a disaster, even though they are about the cheapest "insurance" a working person can get.( and which most cannot afford, anyway).Of course, most of the aware and informed populace know about Bush et. al'.s collective ignorance, arrogance, total disregard for, and supression of, advanced scientific research discovering actual cures for diseases that the pharmaceutical companies quash instantly because it would mean their loss of the trillions spent on prescriptions which merely "treat symptoms", and forces the chronically ill to continue to purchase drugs at ridiculously marked-up, exhorbidant fees. Simultaneously, our government is working hard on blocking any efforts of ill Americans from purchasing the same prescribed drugs cheaply on the internet from other countries. Sick Americans look to alternative medicine --healing herbs, vitamins, nutrition, and homeopathy, etc.--Now the FDA wants to "regulate" herbs, vitamins, and supplements too ! Of course they do ! It will mean trillions more to the corporate profiteers, the filthy- rich CEO's of the drug companies who play a significant part in this political game, ( their greediness exceeded only by their blatant narcissism and hedonistic lifestyles), while simultaneously laughing at the poor and middle class. Think about it! You'll need an insurance plan AND a doctor's visit to just get a prescription for a vitamin!!! This country's "leaders" doe not seem to care about any of the majority of Americans, the working poor, ( that includes the "middle class" now!) , the elderly, the disabled, and any citizen who cannot afford to pay for a doctor's office visit, let alone any prescription that would actually help whatever condition, instead of cover up the symptom and cause endless future prescriptions over a lifetime. I'm sure Moore's film will be viewed by people who already are aware and informed about the subject--just as "Farenheit 911" and the Columbine flick. Those who choose to remain ignorant & uninformed, will not actually go see the film, and they'll continue to feel that our government is actually "democratic" and that their individual opinion/vote "counts" , and that our government will somehow "save" them , "protect them", and have funds available for Medicare, Medicaid, and free clinics for the ailing who can't afford the insurance. Somehow, there remains far too many US citizens ( mainly republicans, "neocons"-- or the "faith-based" collective of religious extremeists) who merely want the status quo to continue. THEY are the ones who need to see this film, and accept the TRUTH. They are currently living in a fantasy world, and won't ever see reality. Ignorance has allowed our healthcare system to plumment to one of the world's WORST. How certain groups of Americans can continue to believe that we have a "good" system is beyond belief. Moore's film will probably be ignored and lamblasted by our government-controlled media-- and the citizens who allow others to think for them. Already, prior to the film's release next month, " they're" using a law and scare tactics to attempt to silence Moore, or rid him of $$$$$$$$ in fines for the Cuban doctor visit part of the film. So far, Moore has proven that his films are truthful, loaded with facts, and it's just too bad his documentaries and exposes are not required viewing in the schools, and "Sicko" required viewing for all in the healthcare field's controlling positions. But then, hey--that would be "big-brother-ish, wouldn't it? I expect to see a large discrediting / boycott effort put forth by government officials, Insurance companies, HMO's, doctor's orgs., AMA, Pharm Co's, & any profiteer(s) of our monstrosity of a healthcare system.

Monday May 21, 2007, 6:52 pm
Michael Moore always get to the TRUTH. I respect him for that.

Monday May 21, 2007, 7:05 pm
What a sick man! Noted.

Monday May 21, 2007, 7:08 pm
Vices and Virtues of the American Health Care System

Monday May 21, 2007, 7:10 pm
‘Sicko’ stars thank Moore for Cuba trip.

Michael Moore yesterday held the first screening of his new film on the health care industry, Sicko, and there to see it were “grateful Sept. 11 ‘first responders,’ suffering lung problems or other ailments from their days at ground zero. In the film, Moore takes them to Cuba and tries to get them treated at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay - where, he contends, terror suspects were getting better medical care than the heroes of 9/11.”

Donna Smith, in from Denver with her husband, Larry, was in tears when she spoke. The film opens with their painful story: Plagued with health problems, they were forced to sell their home and move into the storage room of their daughter’s house because they couldn’t cope with health costs, even though they were insured.

“Health care is an embarrassment to our nation,” Donna told Moore. “You give dignity to every American in this film.”

Lost in all the publicity over Moore’s trip is the reason he went to Cuba in the first place.

He says he hadn’t intended to go, but then discovered the U.S. government was boasting of the excellent medical care it provides terror suspects detained at Guantanamo. So Moore decided that the 9/11 workers and a few other patients, all of whom had serious trouble paying for care at home, should have the same chance.

“Here the detainees were getting colonoscopies and nutrition counseling,” Moore told The Associated Press in an interview, “and these people at home were suffering. I said, ‘We gotta go and see if we can get these people the same treatment the government gives al-Qaida.’ It seemed the only fair thing to do.”

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 2:43 pm
Donna, thank you for your "to the point" comments above. I totally agree with you on all account and I am getting SOOOOO impatient about this movie.

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 5:04 pm
I'm glad we have people like Mike Moore out there to explore the truth and get people to thinking about the things that are going on in the US. I can't wait to see the Movie for myself.

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 5:07 pm

O.k. then . . . DO something:

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 5:23 pm
i am going to watch the movie when it comes out. i like mr. moore's prospective, insight, and truth and allowing the average joe citizen to make a determination of how one feels about his movies and of the subject matter he talks about. i like that in a man. i liked his other movies....and will most likely like this one as well.

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 5:29 pm

Got to admit . . . that lady has an excellent point! (We DO have some great minds here at Care2)

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 5:54 pm
Coure we do Carole ..you are here...(just had to explain to Carole the other day what PM meant here..(Private Message) lol....No seriously...I am really looking forward to his film coming here . It is released in the US and Canada on the 29th

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 5:57 pm
I guess that was meant to bring the obvious following comment from stupid me, Helen . . .

DUH?

(just kidding)

Luv ya (mean it),
*C*

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 5:57 pm
Keep me up to date those of you who see it before us in Australia..we are always last to get these movies..but I am certainly going to go and see it when it comes out here in about 5 months time.

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 5:59 pm
Hi Carole where did you come from all of a sudden...Friend

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 6:03 pm

Helen, Helen, Helen . . .

How many times do I hafta tell you that this is "virtual?" (You really never know who's "lurking" behind a monitor.)

All kidding aside. I, too, am so looking forward to a refreshing breath of honesty in this film's premier.

Tuesday May 22, 2007, 6:10 pm
SHAMELESS PLUG FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY WANT TO DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN READ BLOGS:

http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Wednesday May 23, 2007, 11:35 am
Helen I agree with you 100% the Constitution is a joke a bad one at that; We the people when it was written didn't take into account Women, Minorities, etc. Bush is doing nothing that previous administrations have done only now it's more out in the open. Health care in this country is another joke people with below average income get below average medical care. It's breaking down to "If you're rich you live if you're poor you die'. Sad state of affairs for a country that's supposed to be so rich.

Wednesday May 23, 2007, 8:39 pm
And Don't Say A Single Goddamned Word

by Arthur Silber

I don't often write in the blunt and rude manner used in what follows. But at this point, I know of no other way to try to break through the impenetrable wall of resistance and denial on this subject.

Let it be noted that, should the unimaginably awful happen and the United States should attack Iran, the Democratic Congress will be the co-equal creators of a catastrophic war crime that will place the U.S. on the list of the most monstrous nations in all of history, along with Nazi Germany.

The list of people who should be regarded as future war criminals will also include most of the leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination. With all their sickening drivel about leaving "all options on the table" and talk about "offensive military action," they only make the likelihood of an attack more probable -- to say nothing of the loathsome Obama's leading the charge to impose punitive sanctions on Iran, the kind of sanctions championed by the Clinton administration that helped lead directly to the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the Bush administration.

Alain Gresh writes:

Silently, furtively, sheltered from cameras, the war on Iran has begun. Numerous sources confirm that the United States has intensified its aid to several armed movements with an ethnic base - Azeris, Baluchis, Arabs, Kurds: minorities that together represent about 40 percent of the Iranian population - with the objective of destabilizing the Islamic Republic. In this context, ABC television revealed in the beginning of April that the Baluchi group, Jound Al-Islam ("The soldiers of Islam") which had just led an attack against the Guardians of the Revolution (about twenty dead) had enjoyed secret American assistance. A report by the Century Foundation (1) reveals that American commandos have been operating in the interior of Iran itself since the summer of 2004. January 29, 2002 in his State of the Union speech, President George W. Bush classified Iran, along with North Korea and Iraq, in the "Axis of Evil." On June 18, 2003 he asserted that the United States and its allies "would not tolerate" this country's accession to nuclear weaponry. It is perhaps useful to recall the context of the time. Mr. Mohammad Khatami was then president of the Islamic Republic and was multiplying his appeals for a "dialogue of civilizations." In Afghanistan, the United States had benefited from the active support of Tehran, which had used its many connections to facilitate the overthrow of the Taliban regime. On May 2, 2003 during a meeting in Geneva between Iranian Ambassador Javad Zarif and Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad - then President Bush's special envoy to Afghanistan - the Tehran leaders submitted a comprehensive negotiation proposal to the White House that covered three issues: weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and security, and economic cooperation (2). The Islamic Republic declared itself ready to support the Beirut Summit (2002) Arab Peace initiative and to contribute to the transformation of Lebanon's Hezbollah into a political party. On December 18, 2003 Tehran signed the additional protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a protocol that several countries only have ratified and which considerably strengthens the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) surveillance capabilities.

All these overtures were purely and simply swept aside by the American administration, which remains focused on one goal, the overthrow of the "mullahs' regime." To create the conditions for a possible military intervention, it continues to brandish the "nuclear threat." For years, alarmist reports have been produced by successive American administrations and always refuted. In January 1995, the director of the American agency for weapons control and disarmament asserted that Iran could have the bomb in 2003; simultaneously Defense Secretary William Perry asserted that that objective could be reached before ... 2000. These "forecasts" were repeated the following year by Mr. Shimon Peres (3). Yet, in 2007, in spite of the progress made by Iran with respect to uranium enrichment, the IAEA deemed that Tehran will not have the "capabilities" to produce the bomb sooner than four to six years from now.

What is the situation, really? Since the 1960s, i.e., well before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Iran sought to develop a nuclear infrastructure to prepare the post-oil period. With the development of technologies, complete mastery of the civilian nuclear cycle makes the shift to military usage much easier. Have the leaders in Tehran made that decision? Nothing allows us to assert that. Does the risk exist? Yes, and for reasons that are easy to understand.

During the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), Saddam Hussein's regime used chemical weapons against Iran - in violation of all international treaties: neither the United States nor France became indignant over this usage of weapons of mass destruction, which traumatized the Iranian people. Meanwhile, American troops are encamped in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Iran is surrounded in a dense network of foreign military bases. Finally, two neighboring countries, Pakistan and Israel, have nuclear weapons. What Iranian political leader could be insensitive to such a context?

How then to avoid Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons, which would relaunch the arms race in a region already highly unstable and which would deal a fatal blow to the Non-Proliferation Treaty? Contrary to what is often suggested, the essential obstacle does not reside in Tehran's desire to enrich uranium: Iran, according to the NPT, has the right to do that, but has always asserted that it was ready to voluntarily allow restrictions to that right and to accept a reinforcement in the IAEA's controls to avoid any potential use of enriched uranium for military purposes.

The Islamic Republic's fundamental preoccupation lies elsewhere, as the agreement signed November 14, 2004 with the European "troika" (France, United Kingdom, Germany) proves: Iran agreed to provisionally suspend uranium enrichment, with the understanding that a long-term agreement "would furnish firm commitments on security issues." Those commitments having been rejected by Washington, Iran resumed its enrichment program.

Gresh has more. Read it.

Almost three months ago, I described in detail a series of actions that might help deter the current administration from launching an attack on Iran. You can probably think of a number of others, if you seriously put your mind to it. Some of those actions require the Democratic Congress to do something, or at least try to do something. Thus far, the Congress has not seriously tried to do even one of them: it has not moved to rescind either AUMF, nor has it passed a resolution condemning a possible attack on Iran, let alone proposed that such a non-defensive attack would be an impeachable offense. It has done nothing. Periodically, a few Democrats will make noises about doing something -- at some time in some indeterminate future.

What in God's name are they waiting for? The possible (and maybe probable) end of civilization as we have known it, a world crisis that we cannot even begin to imagine, and perhaps the imposition of martial law in the U.S.?

I also proposed certain actions that individuals, including the leading liberal bloggers -- who enjoy a combined readership somewhere between half a million and one million people per day -- could take. If they chose to, these bloggers could mobilize their readers to put enormous pressure on the Democratic members of Congress. They could continue the pressure every day, which is what it would take with these worthless cowards, until the Congress did something. With only one or two exceptions, they have done and do nothing. Why not? There are not that many explanations, and all of them are uniformly awful: they're too stupid to realize how catastrophic the consequences of an attack on Iran would be; they understand what the consequences would be, but they're too cowardly themselves to take any action that might matter; they value their "influence" and their "connections" with prominent Democrats too highly even to consider endangering them; or they agree that America is uniquely great, so great and so indescribably good and perfect that we have the right to tell the entire rest of the world how it must conduct itself. And if anyone dares to defy us, they further agree we have the right to murder millions of people who never attacked us, and who do not even threaten us.

So let me tell you something. If this paralysis and inaction continues, and if the Bush administration does order an attack on Iran, I don't want to hear one goddamned word from a single goddamned Democrat about how terrible and calamitous it is. They've been able to take action for months, and they can take action now. They do nothing.

And for all those goddamned bloggers who have done and continue to do nothing: if an attack should come, don't say a goddamned word about how monstrous it is. You had your chance. You blew it. You didn't give a sh!t.

I don't want to hear a single goddamned word. Not one.

posted by Arthur Silber at 3:09 PM

Wednesday May 23, 2007, 8:44 pm
Blue -- I GOTTA luv you!

Thursday May 24, 2007, 5:37 am
Michael Moore is like a provovating man, I do appreciate his films. I found him very courageous do denounce some dangerous events that are now come here. We have always one decenny of delay, but for catastrophs, I prefer they do not arrive.

Thursday May 24, 2007, 9:12 am
I appreciate Mr. Moores efforts. Following his movie 'Bowling for Columbine', I make it a point to watch everything he releases on film, and his well publicized 'letters'. Although he does have a bias, it is not hidden, and he doesn't claim that his opinions are anything but that - and leaves most judgements up to the audiences. - alot more honest than any other news outlet I can think of! His 'grass-roots' style of reporting, as well as his 'in your face' openness, is very refreshing. I also admire his courage, and fortitude.
You Go Michael! Sickum!

Friday May 25, 2007, 4:06 pm
If Michael is not on the mark, why is this administration trying to kill the movie off. The Bush crime family is just that, Bush is not the President (only by name) Cheney is,and he is also related to Queen Elizebeth, and does the bidding for the real tyrants in this world.

Go to http://educate-yourself.org/nwotavistockbestkeptsecret.html
You can read Dr.Byron T. Weeks,MD July 31,2001....Weeks also is Col.AFUS,MC,Ret.

What is "behind", lets say,The CIA? Well,they don't swear allegiance to America,thats for certain. Try the British Royal Family.

Tavistock ,I believe (Weeks) has always had ties to British Freemasonry.

Sunday May 27, 2007, 6:37 pm
All I can say is thank you Micheal Moore. Noted