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[chime]
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[appeasing music]
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[fireworks whistling and popping]
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[crowd cheering]
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[Michael Moore]
Was it all just a dream?
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God bless you, Florida! Thank you!
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[Michael Moore]
Did the last four years not really happen?
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Look! There is Ben Affleck.
He's often in my dreams.
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And the Taxi Driver guy.
He was there too!
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And little Stevie Wonder.
He seemed so happy, like a miracle
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had taken place.
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[crowd cheering]
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Was it a dream?
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[crowd chanting]
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Or was it real?
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[country music]
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It was election night 2000,
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and everything seemed
to be going as planned.
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[TV host] In New York,
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Al Gore is our projected winner.
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The Garden State is green for Gore.
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We project Mr. Gore
the winner in Delaware.
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This state has voted with the winner.
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Excuse me one second,
I'm so sorry to interrupt you.
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Mike, I wouldn't do this
if it weren't big!
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Florida goes for Al Gore.
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CNN announces that we call
Florida in the Al Gore column.
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[Michael Moore] Then, something
called The Fox News Channel
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called the election
in favor of the other guy.
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I interrupt you,
Fox News now projects
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George W. Bush the winner in Florida,
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and thus it appears the winner
of the Presidency of the United States.
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[Michael Moore] All of a sudden,
the other network said:
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"Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true!"
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All of us at the networks
made a mistake
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and projected Florida
in the Al Gore column.
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It was our mistake.
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[Michael Moore]
What most people don't know is
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that the man who was in charge
of the decision desk at Fox that night,
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the man who called it for Bush,
was none other
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than Bush's first cousin,
John Ellis.
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How does someone like Bush
get away with something like this?
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[laughter]
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Well, first, it helps
if your brother is the governor
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of the State in question.
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You know something?
We are gonna win Florida.
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Mark my words.
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You can write it down.
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[Michael Moore] Second, make sure
the chairman of your campaign is also
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the vote count woman,
and that her state
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has hired a company
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that's gonna knock voters
off the rolls
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who aren't likely to vote for you.
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You can usually tell them
by the color of their skin.
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Then make sure your side fights
like it's life or death.
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I think all this talk
about legitimacy is way overblown.
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[chanting]
President Bush! President Bush!
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[Michael Moore]
And hope that the other side
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will just sit by
and wait for the phone to ring.
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And even if numerous
independent investigations prove
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that Gore got the most votes.
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If there was a statewide recount,
under every scenario,
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Gore won the election.
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[Michael Moore]
It won't matter,
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just as long as all your daddy's friends
on the Supreme Court
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vote the right way.
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While I strongly disagree
with the Court's decision, I accept it.
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What we need now, is acceptance.
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We have a new president-elect.
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[Michael Moore] It turns out
none of this was a dream.
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It's what really happened.
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[country music stops]
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On the day the joint session
of both the House of Representatives
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and the Senate was
to certify the election results,
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Al Gore, in his dual role
as outgoing Vice President
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and President of the Senate,
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presided over the event
that would officially anoint
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George W. Bush as the new president.
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If any congressman wanted to raise
an objection, the rules insisted
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that he or she had to have the signed
support of just one Senator.
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Mr. President, and I take great pride
in calling you that,
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I must object because
of the overwhelming evidence
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of official misconduct.
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[protest]
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-Deliberate fraud--
-[Al Gore] The Chair
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must remind members
that under Section Eighteen
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of Title Three, United States Code,
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no debate is allowed
in the joint session.
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Thank you, Mr. President,
to answer your question,
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the objection is in writing,
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signed by a number of members
of the House of Representatives,
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but not by a member of the Senate.
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Uh, Mr. President,
it is in writing and signed
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by several House colleagues
on behalf, and myself,
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of the 27,000 voters of Duval county,
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in which 16,000 of them
are African Americans
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that was disenfranchised
in this last election.
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[Al Gore] Is the objection signed
by a member of the Senate?
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Not signed by a member of the Senate,
the Senate is missing.
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Mr. President, it is in writing
and signed by myself,
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on behalf of many of the diverse
constituents in our country,
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especially those
in the Ninth Congressional district,
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and all American voters
who recognize that the Supreme Court,
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not the people of the United States,
decided this election.
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[Al Gore]
Is the objection signed by a Senator?
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Unfortunately, Mr. President,
it is not signed by one single Senator.
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Unfortunately, I have no authority
over the United States Senate,
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and no Senator has signed.
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Mr. President,
it is in writing and signed by myself
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and several of my constituents,
constituents from Florida.
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A Senator is needed, but missing.
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[Al Gore]
Is the objection in writing
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and signed by a member
of the House and a Senator?
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The objection is in writing,
and I don't care
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that it is not signed
by a member of the Senate.
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-[applause from the bench]
-[hammer]
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[Al Gore] The Chair will advise
that the rules do care, and...
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[laughter]
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[laughter and clapping]
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[Al Gore]
The signature of a Senator...
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[Michael Moore] Not a single Senator
came to the aid of the African Americans
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in Congress.
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One after another,
they were told to sit down
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and shut up.
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It's a sad day in America,
Mr. President, when we can't find
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-a Senator to sign objections.
-[Al Gore] The gentleman!
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The gentleman will suspend.
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Won't sign objections,
Mr. President, I object!
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[Al Gore]
The gentleman will suspend.
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[sad music]
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[Peter Jennings]
Inauguration coverage 2001
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on a nasty, but it could be
a worse kind of day in Washington.
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-What do we want?
-Justice!
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-When do we want it?
-Now!
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[crowd cheering]
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[Michael Moore] On the day
that George W. Bush was inaugurated,
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tens of thousands of Americans
poured into the streets of D.C.
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in one last attempt to reclaim
what had been taken from them.
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[crowd protesting]
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They pelted Bush's limo with eggs.
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[egg crashing]
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[policeman]
Get back! Get back!
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[Michael Moore] And brought
the inauguration parade to a halt.
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[screams]
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The plan to have Bush get out
of the limo for the traditional walk
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to the White House was scrapped.
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Bush's limo hit the gas
to prevent an even larger riot.
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[crowd protesting]
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No president had ever witnessed
such a thing on his Inauguration Day.
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[crowd booing]
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[sad guitar tune]
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And for the next eight months,
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it didn't get any better
for George W. Bush.
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He couldn't get his judges appointed.
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He had trouble getting
his legislation passed,
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and he lost Republican control
of the Senate.
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His approval ratings
in the polls began to sink.
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He was already beginning
to look like a lame duck president.
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With everything going wrong,
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he did what any of us would do.
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He went on vacation.
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[The Go-Go's "Vacation" playing]
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♪ Vacation, had to get away ♪
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♪ Vacation, meant to spend alone ♪
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[hitting ball]
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Oh, no!
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[Michael Moore] In his first eight
months in office before September 11th,
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George W. Bush was on vacation,
according to the Washington Post,
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42% of the time.
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If I hit every shot good,
people would say I wasn't working.
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[Michael Moore] It was not surprising
that Mr. Bush needed some time off.
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Being president is a lot of work.
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[female reporter]
What about these folks that say
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you're taking too long of a vacation?
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They don't understand
the definition of work, then.
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[crowd chatter]
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I'm getting a lot done.
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Secondly, you don't have to be
in Washington to work.
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It's, uh... It's amazing, uh,
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what can happen
with telephones and faxes.
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[woman]
Thank you so much, you were great.
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[inaudible chatter]
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[male reporter] What are you doing
the rest of the day?
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Karen Hughes is coming over,
we're working on some things,
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and uh...
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She'll be over here, we'll be working
on a few things, a few matters.
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I'm working on some initiatives.
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We're, uh... You'll see!
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I mean, I've got-- There'll be
some decisions that I will have made
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while I'm here, and we'll be
announcing them as time goes on.
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[Michael Moore]
The first time I met him,
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he had some good advice for me.
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-Governor Bush, it's Michael Moore!
-Behave yourself, will you?
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Go find real work!
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[laughter]
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[Michael Moore] And work was
something he knew a lot about!
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-[reporter calling him]
-Anybody want some grits?
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-Yeah!
-[laughing]
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[Michael Moore]
Relaxing at Camp David.
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Yachting off Kennebunkport.
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-How ya doing?
-[patting]
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[Michael Moore] Or being a cowboy
on a ranch in Texas.
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I love the nature, I love to get
in the pickup truck with my dogs.
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Oh, hi!
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[Michael Moore] George Bush spent
the rest of August at the ranch,
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where life was less complicated.
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Armadillos love to dig
the soil looking for bugs.
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And...
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So I went out there the other day,
and there was Barney!
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Buried in this hole,
chasing an armadillo.
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[laughing]
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[Michael Moore]
It was a summer to remember.
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And when it was over,
he left Texas
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for his second favorite place.
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On September tenth,
he joined his brother in Florida,
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where he looked at files
and met important Floridians.
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He went to sleep that night in a bed
made with fine French linens.
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[Jeff Gibbs's Fahrenheit 9/11
intro theme song]
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[slow guitar tune]
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[Donald Rumsfeld]
Do you suppose he's pretty
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confident on those numbers
on Iraqi security forces?
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[mute]
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Make me look young!
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[all laugh]
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I've got a little air noise.
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Just don't turn it up too much,
I don't want to blow my head off.
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[operator] I got a... I got a mic here
if they want to hear.
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Testing one, two.
This is the Oval Office.
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Testing one, two.
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Testing one, two.
This is the Oval Office.
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[microphone sounds]
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Testing one, two three, four, five.
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[laughing]
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[music fades away]
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[wind blowing]
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[growing throbbing of a plane]
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-[plane crashing]
-[loud screams]
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-[sirens and screams]
-[reporter reporting on WTC attacks]
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[whistle]
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[crowd yelling and talking]
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[growing throbbing of a plane]
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[crashing]
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[rescue teams' voices on radios]
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[sounds of New York
during the 9/11 attacks]
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[sirens]
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[mixed TV reports]
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[continuing sounds of sirens,
rescue teams, crowds, TV reports]
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[loud thud]
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Save their souls, Lord!
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Save their souls, Lord!
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[heavy tune]
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Oh, they're jumping! Everyone!
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[muted sirens]
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[clock chiming]
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[inaudible conversation]
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[tragic classical tune]
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[Michael Moore] On September 11th 2001,
nearly 3,000 people,
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including a colleague of mine,
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Bill Weems,
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were killed in the largest foreign
attack ever on American soil.
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The targets were the financial
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and military headquarters
of the United States.
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If anyone has any idea, or if they've
seen him or knows where he is,
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to call us!
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He's got two little babies.
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Two little babies.
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[Michael Moore]
As the attack took place,
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Mr. Bush was on his way
to an elementary school in Florida.
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When informed of the first plane
hitting the World Trade Center,
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where terrorists had struck,
just eight years prior,
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Mr. Bush decided to go ahead
with his photo opportunity.
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[cameras clicking]
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[George W. Bush]
Good morning!
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[teacher] Read this word
the fast way. Get ready!
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-[pupils] Mat!
-[teacher] Yes, mat! Get ready!
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[pupils] Cat!
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Yeah!
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[all laugh and clap]
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[teacher] OK, get ready
to read the words on this page
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without making a mistake!
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[Michael Moore] When the second plane
hit the tower, his chief of staff
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entered the classroom
and told Mr. Bush:
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"The nation is under attack."
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[cameras clicking]
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Not knowing what to do,
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with no one telling him what to do,
and no secret service
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rushing in to take him to safety,
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Mr. Bush just sat there
and continued to read My Pet Goat
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with the children.
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[tense piano music]
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[pupils reading in the background]
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Nearly seven minutes passed
with nobody doing anything.
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[tense piano music]
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As Bush sat in that Florida classroom,
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was he wondering if maybe he should
have shown up to work more often?
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[kids continue reading]
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Should he have held at least
one meeting since taking office
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to discuss the threat of terrorism
with his head of counter-terrorism?
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Or maybe Mr. Bush was wondering
why he had cut terrorism funding
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from the FBI?
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Or perhaps, he just should have read
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the security briefing that was given
to him on August sixth 2001,
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which said that Osama Bin Laden
was planning to attack America
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by hijacking airplanes.
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But maybe he wasn't worried
about the terrorist threat
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because the title
of the report was too vague.
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I believe the title was:
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Bin Laden determined
to attack inside the United States.
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[Michael Moore]
A report like that
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might make some men jump,
but as in days past,
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George W. just went fishing.
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As the minutes went by, George Bush
continued to sit in the classroom.
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Was he thinking: "I've been hanging
out with the wrong crowd?
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Which one of them screwed me?
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Was it the guy my daddy's friends
delivered a lot of weapons to?
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Was it that group
of religious fundamentalists
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who visited my State
when I was governor?
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Or was it the Saudis?
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Damn, it was them!
I think I better
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blame it on this guy!"
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In the days following September 11th,
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all commercial and private airline traffic
was grounded.
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[FAA chief]
The FAA has taken the action to close
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all of the airports in the United States.
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[TV presenter] Even grounding
the president's father,
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former President Bush,
on a flight, forced to land in Milwaukee.
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[TV presenter] Thousands of travelers
were stranded, among them,
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Ricky Martin, due to appear
at tonight's Latin Grammy awards.
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[Michael Moore] Not even
Ricky Martin could fly, but really,
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who wanted to fly?
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No one, except the Bin Ladens.
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[The Animals'
"We Gotta Get out of This Place" playing]
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♪ If it's the last thing we ever do ♪
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We had some airplanes authorized
at the highest levels of our government
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to fly to pick up
Osama Bin Laden's family members
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and others from Saudi Arabia
and transport them out of this country.
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It turns out that the White House
approved planes
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to pick up the Bin Ladens
and numerous other Saudis.
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At least six private jets
and nearly two dozen commercial planes
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carried the Saudis and the Bin Ladens
out of the U.S.
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after September 13th.
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In all, 142 Saudis,
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including 24 members
of the Bin Laden family,
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were allowed to leave the country.
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[Craig Unger] Osama's always been
portrayed as a bad apple,
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the black sheep in the family
and that they cut off
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all relationship with him
around 1994.
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In fact, things are much more
complicated than that.
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[Michael Moore] You mean Osama's had
contact with other family members?
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[Craig Unger] That's right, and in
the summer of 2001, just before 9/11,
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one of Osama's sons
got married in Afghanistan,
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and several family members
showed up at the wedding.
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-Bin Ladens?
-That's right!
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So they're not cut off completely,
that's an exaggeration.
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We now welcome to Larry King Live,
good to see him again,
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Prince Bandar, the ambassador
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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to the United States.
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You had about 24 members
of Bin Laden's family, and--
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-Here?
-In America!
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Students and... And his Majesty felt
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it's not fair for those innocent
people to be subjected to any harm.
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On the other hand,
we understood the high emotions,
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so with coordination with the FBI,
we got them all out.
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[Michael Moore] This is retired
FBI agent Jack Cloonan.
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Before 9/11, he was a senior agent
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on the joint FBI/CIA Al-Qaeda task force.
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I, as an investigator, would not want
these people to have left.
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I think in the case
of the Bin Laden family,
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I think it would have been prudent,
hand the subpoenas out,
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have them come in, get on the record!
You know, get on the record.
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-That's the proper procedure?
-Yeah!
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How many people
were pulled off airlines
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after that, coming into the country
who were what?
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They were from the Middle East
or they fit a very general picture.
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-We held hundreds.
-We held hundreds, and I--
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[Moore]
For weeks and months at a time.
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Did the authorities do anything
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when the Bin Ladens tried
to leave the country?
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No, they were identified at the airport.
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They looked at their passports
and they were identified.
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Well, that's what would happen
to you or I.
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Exactly! Exactly!
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So, a little interview,
check the passport, what else?
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Nothing.
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[Dragnet theme music]
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[Michael Moore] I don't know
about you, but, usually,
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when the police can't find a murderer,
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don't they usually want to talk
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to the family members to find out
where they think he might be?
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Do you have no idea
where your husband might be?
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If you should hear anything,
let us know.
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You want to come downtown,
give us a statement?
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-Is this gonna take long?
-You got the time.
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Mine's worth money, yours isn't.
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-Send us the bill!
-I asked you a question!
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You're here to answer them.
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Now, listen to me, cop,
I pay your salary!
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Sit down, I'll earn it.
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[Michael Moore]
Yeah, that's how cops do it.
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What was going on here?
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I think we need to know
a lot more about that.
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That needs to be the subject
of a significant investigation.
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What happened? How did it happen?
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Why did it happen,
and who authorized it?
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Try to imagine
what those poor bastards were feeling
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when they were jumping
out of that building to their death.
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Those... those... those young guys
and cops and firemen that ran
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into that building,
never asked a question, and they're dead.
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And families' lives are ruined.
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And they'll never,
they'll never have peace.
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And if I had to inconvenience...
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A... A member of the Bin Laden family
with a subpoena or a grand jury,
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do you think I'd lose any sleep over it?
Not for a minute, Mike.
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-No one would question it.
-No, it's right.
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Not even the biggest civil libertarian?
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-No, no, it's just...
-No one would question.
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You know, you got a lawyer? Fine.
Counsellor, fine!
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Mr. Bin Laden, this is why I'm asking you,
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it's not because I think
that you're anything,
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I just want to ask you the questions
that I would anybody.
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-Right.
-And that's all!
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[Michael Moore]
None of this made any sense.
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[xylophone tune]
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Can you imagine in the days
after the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing
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President Clinton helping to arrange
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a trip out of the country
for the McVeigh family?
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What do you think would have happened
to Clinton if that had been revealed?
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[crowd screaming]
Burn him! Burn him!
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Prince Bandar,
do you know the Bin Laden family?
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I do very well.
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-What are they like?
-They're really lovely human beings.
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He is the only one I never...
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I don't know him well,
but I met him only once.
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[Larry King] What was the circumstance
under which you met him?
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This is ironic, in the mid-80s,
if you remember,
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we and the United States
were supporting the Mujahedeen.
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To liberate
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Afghanistan from the Soviets!
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He came to thank me for my efforts
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to bring the Americans, our friends,
to help us against the atheists,
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he said, the Communists.
Isn't it ironic?
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[Larry King]
Now, he came to thank you
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for helping bring America to help him?
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And now, he may be responsible
for bombing America?
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Absolutely.
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What did you make of him
when you met him?
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I was not impressed,
to be honest with you.
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-Not impressed?
-No, ha was...
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I thought he was simple
and very quiet guy.
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[tense piano]
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[Michael Moore]
Hmm... A simple and quiet guy?
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Whose family just happened to have
a business relationship
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with the family of George W. Bush.
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[quiet piano tune]
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Is that what he was thinking about?
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Because if the public knew this,
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it wouldn't look very good.
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Was he thinking, you know:
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"I need a big black marker"?
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[inaudible speech]
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In early 2004, in a speech
during the New Hampshire primary,
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I called George W. Bush a deserter
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from his time
in the Texas Air National Guard.
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In response, the White House
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released his military records
in the hopes of disproving the charge.
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What Bush didn't know
is that I already had a copy
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of his military records,
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uncensored,
obtained in the year 2000,
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and there is one glaring difference
between the records released in 2000
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and those he released in 2004.
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A name had been blacked out.
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In 1972, two airmen were
suspended for failing
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to take their medical examination.
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One was George W. Bush.
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[70s rock music]
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And the other was James R. Bath.
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[theme song]
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In 2000,
the documents show both names.
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But in 2004, Bush and the White House
had Bath's name blacked out.
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Why didn't Bush want the press
and the public to see Bath's name
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on his military records?
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Perhaps he was worried
that the American people would find out
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that at one time James R. Bath
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was the Texas money manager
for the Bin Ladens.
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Bush and Bath had become good friends
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when they both served
in the Texas Air National Guard.
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After they were discharged,
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when Bush's dad
was head of the CIA,
490
00:28:15,579 --> 00:28:17,831
Bath opened his own aviation business
491
00:28:17,998 --> 00:28:20,584
after selling a plane
to a man by the name
492
00:28:20,750 --> 00:28:22,711
of Salem Bin Laden,
493
00:28:22,878 --> 00:28:26,047
heir to the second largest fortune
in Saudi Arabia,
494
00:28:26,214 --> 00:28:28,258
the Saudi Binladin Group.
495
00:28:28,425 --> 00:28:29,551
[Jim Moore] W., at that time,
496
00:28:29,718 --> 00:28:32,804
was just starting off
in the world as a businessman.
497
00:28:32,971 --> 00:28:35,682
Because he's a guy who's always
tried to emulate his father,
498
00:28:35,849 --> 00:28:37,851
he decided to go
into the oil business.
499
00:28:38,018 --> 00:28:39,978
He founded an oil company,
a drilling company,
500
00:28:40,145 --> 00:28:41,897
out in west Texas called Arbusto,
501
00:28:42,063 --> 00:28:46,234
which was very, very good at drilling
dry holes that nothing came out of.
502
00:28:46,401 --> 00:28:49,154
But the question has always been,
where did this money come from?
503
00:28:49,321 --> 00:28:50,197
Now, his dad,
504
00:28:50,655 --> 00:28:53,700
his dad was rich.
His dad could have done this for him.
505
00:28:53,867 --> 00:28:55,952
But his dad didn't do this for him.
506
00:28:56,119 --> 00:28:57,996
There's no indication that Daddy
wrote a check
507
00:28:58,163 --> 00:29:00,081
to start him off in this company.
508
00:29:01,124 --> 00:29:03,710
[Michael Moore] So where did
George W. Bush get his money?
509
00:29:03,877 --> 00:29:04,878
I'm George Bush!
510
00:29:05,754 --> 00:29:08,924
[Michael Moore] One person who did
invest in him was James R. Bath.
511
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,680
Bush's good friend, James Bath,
was hired by the Bin Laden family
512
00:29:15,847 --> 00:29:19,142
to manage their money
in Texas and invest in businesses.
513
00:29:23,855 --> 00:29:28,485
And James Bath himself, in turn,
invested in George W. Bush.
514
00:29:30,195 --> 00:29:31,488
[theme song]
515
00:29:31,655 --> 00:29:34,282
Bush ran Arbusto into the ground,
516
00:29:34,449 --> 00:29:37,244
as he did every other company
he was involved in.
517
00:29:37,410 --> 00:29:41,248
Until, finally, one of his companies
was bought by Harken Energy.
518
00:29:42,707 --> 00:29:45,126
And they gave him
a seat on their board.
519
00:29:45,877 --> 00:29:47,170
[Jim Moore]
A lot of us had suspected
520
00:29:47,337 --> 00:29:50,674
through the years,
that there has been Saudi oil money
521
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,300
involved in all of these companies.
522
00:29:52,467 --> 00:29:56,263
Harken, Spectrum Seven,
Arbusto Drilling,
523
00:29:56,429 --> 00:29:57,681
all of the Bush companies.
524
00:29:57,848 --> 00:30:00,851
Whenever they got into trouble,
there were these angel investors
525
00:30:01,017 --> 00:30:02,853
who flowed money into the companies.
526
00:30:03,019 --> 00:30:07,524
So, the question is, why Saudis,
who had all the oil in the world,
527
00:30:07,691 --> 00:30:12,487
go around the globe
to invest in this lousy oil company?
528
00:30:12,654 --> 00:30:14,614
And the thing is it had one big asset,
529
00:30:14,781 --> 00:30:18,827
Harken had one thing going for it,
which is that George W. Bush
530
00:30:18,994 --> 00:30:20,370
was on its board of directors
531
00:30:20,537 --> 00:30:23,540
at a time when his father was
President of the United States.
532
00:30:23,707 --> 00:30:27,043
When you're the president's son,
and you've got unlimited access,
533
00:30:27,210 --> 00:30:30,422
combined with some credentials
from a prior campaign,
534
00:30:31,131 --> 00:30:33,675
in Washington D.C.,
people tend to respect that.
535
00:30:33,842 --> 00:30:35,260
And, access is power.
536
00:30:35,427 --> 00:30:39,973
And, uh, I can find my dad
and talk to him any time of the day.
537
00:30:40,557 --> 00:30:43,685
[Michael Moore]
Yes, it helps to be the president's son,
538
00:30:43,852 --> 00:30:45,937
especially when you're being investigated
539
00:30:46,104 --> 00:30:48,231
by the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
540
00:30:48,398 --> 00:30:51,401
[Bill Plante] In 1990, when Mr. Bush
was a Director of Harken Energy,
541
00:30:51,568 --> 00:30:53,653
he received this memo
from company lawyers
542
00:30:53,820 --> 00:30:55,906
warning directors not to sell stock
543
00:30:56,072 --> 00:30:58,700
if they had unfavorable information
about the company.
544
00:30:58,867 --> 00:31:03,079
One week later, he sold
$848,000 worth of Harken stock.
545
00:31:03,246 --> 00:31:07,000
Two months later, Harken announced losses
of more than $23,000,000.
546
00:31:07,167 --> 00:31:09,002
[Michael Moore]
The James Baker law partner
547
00:31:09,169 --> 00:31:11,963
who helped Bush beat
the rap from the SCC
548
00:31:12,130 --> 00:31:15,342
was a man by the name
of Robert Jordan, who,
549
00:31:15,509 --> 00:31:19,387
when George W. Became president,
was appointed ambassador
550
00:31:19,554 --> 00:31:21,348
to Saudi Arabia.
551
00:31:22,140 --> 00:31:25,143
[upbeat tune]
552
00:31:25,310 --> 00:31:27,187
After the Harken debacle,
553
00:31:27,354 --> 00:31:30,982
the friends of Bush's dad
got him a seat on another board
554
00:31:31,149 --> 00:31:34,402
of a company owned
by the Carlyle group.
555
00:31:34,569 --> 00:31:36,446
[Dan Briody]
We wanted to look at which companies
556
00:31:36,613 --> 00:31:38,114
actually gained from September 11th.
557
00:31:38,281 --> 00:31:40,700
Turned up this company,
Carlyle Group.
558
00:31:40,867 --> 00:31:41,743
The Carlyle Group is
559
00:31:41,910 --> 00:31:43,995
a multinational conglomerate that invests
560
00:31:44,162 --> 00:31:47,958
in heavily government-regulated
industries like telecommunications,
561
00:31:48,124 --> 00:31:50,794
healthcare,
and particularly, defense.
562
00:31:51,503 --> 00:31:54,673
Both George W. Bush
and George H. W. Bush
563
00:31:54,839 --> 00:31:56,299
worked for the Carlyle Group,
564
00:31:56,466 --> 00:32:00,428
the same company that counted
the Bin Laden family among its investors.
565
00:32:01,763 --> 00:32:05,058
Carlyle Group was holding
its annual investor conference
566
00:32:05,225 --> 00:32:07,018
on the morning of September 11th
567
00:32:07,978 --> 00:32:10,647
in the Ritz Carlton Hotel
in Washington D.C. At that meeting,
568
00:32:10,814 --> 00:32:14,276
were all of the Carlyle regulars,
569
00:32:14,442 --> 00:32:15,986
James Baker, likely John Major,
570
00:32:16,152 --> 00:32:18,113
definitely George H. W. Bush,
571
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,657
though he left the morning
of September 11th,
572
00:32:20,824 --> 00:32:24,578
Shafiq Bin Laden,
who is Osama Bin Laden's half-brother
573
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,538
and was in town to look after
574
00:32:26,705 --> 00:32:29,833
his family's investments
in the Carlyle Group,
575
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,752
um, all of them together
in one room watching
576
00:32:32,919 --> 00:32:36,089
as the planes hit the towers.
577
00:32:36,256 --> 00:32:38,508
And then in fact,
the Bin Laden family was invested
578
00:32:38,675 --> 00:32:42,345
in one of their defense funds,
which ironically meant
579
00:32:42,512 --> 00:32:45,140
that, um,
as the United States started
580
00:32:45,307 --> 00:32:49,186
increasing its defense spending,
the Bin Laden family stood to gain
581
00:32:49,352 --> 00:32:51,730
from those investments
through the Carlyle Group.
582
00:32:51,897 --> 00:32:55,817
Our Commander-in-chief,
our president, George W. Bush!
583
00:32:55,984 --> 00:32:57,152
[crowd cheering and clapping]
584
00:32:57,319 --> 00:32:59,529
[Michael Moore] With all
the weapons companies it owned,
585
00:32:59,696 --> 00:33:01,448
the Carlyle Group was in essence
586
00:33:01,615 --> 00:33:04,951
the eleventh largest defense
contractor in the United States.
587
00:33:05,619 --> 00:33:06,620
Thanks a lot!
588
00:33:06,786 --> 00:33:08,997
[Michael Moore]
It owned United Defense,
589
00:33:09,164 --> 00:33:12,751
makers of the Bradley armored
fighting vehicle.
590
00:33:12,918 --> 00:33:16,504
September 11th guaranteed
that United Defense
591
00:33:16,671 --> 00:33:19,633
was going to have a very good year.
592
00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:21,885
[light tune]
593
00:33:22,052 --> 00:33:24,387
Just six weeks after 9/11,
594
00:33:24,554 --> 00:33:27,349
Carlyle filed to take
United Defense public,
595
00:33:27,516 --> 00:33:30,352
and in December, made a one day profit
596
00:33:30,519 --> 00:33:34,189
of 237 million dollars, but sadly,
597
00:33:34,356 --> 00:33:37,651
with so much attention
focused on the Bin Laden family
598
00:33:37,817 --> 00:33:39,986
being important Carlyle investors,
599
00:33:40,362 --> 00:33:43,365
the Bin Ladens eventually
had to withdraw,
600
00:33:43,532 --> 00:33:46,076
Bush's dad, though,
stayed on as Senior Advisor
601
00:33:46,243 --> 00:33:49,913
to Carlyle's Asia Board
for another two years.
602
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,706
As unseemly as it seems,
603
00:33:51,873 --> 00:33:56,044
uh, to...
know that George H. W. Bush
604
00:33:56,211 --> 00:33:58,880
was meeting with the Bin Laden family
605
00:33:59,047 --> 00:34:02,759
while Osama was a wanted terrorist,
606
00:34:02,926 --> 00:34:04,845
way before September 11th.
607
00:34:06,304 --> 00:34:09,683
It's very discomforting
for Americans to know that.
608
00:34:09,850 --> 00:34:14,521
George H. W. Bush is a man who has,
obviously, incredible reach
609
00:34:14,688 --> 00:34:16,189
into the White House.
610
00:34:16,898 --> 00:34:19,192
He receives daily CIA briefings,
611
00:34:19,359 --> 00:34:21,903
which is the right of any ex-president,
612
00:34:22,070 --> 00:34:26,199
but very few ex-presidents actually
exercise that right, he does.
613
00:34:26,366 --> 00:34:29,411
And I think in a very real way,
614
00:34:29,578 --> 00:34:31,663
they are benefiting
from the confusion that arises
615
00:34:31,830 --> 00:34:35,917
when George H. W. Bush visits
Saudi Arabia, on behalf of Carlyle,
616
00:34:36,084 --> 00:34:39,713
and meets with the royal family
and meets with the Bin Laden family.
617
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:40,755
Um...
618
00:34:40,922 --> 00:34:44,426
Is he representing
the United States of America
619
00:34:44,593 --> 00:34:46,761
or is he representing
an investment firm
620
00:34:46,928 --> 00:34:49,472
in the United States of America
or is he representing both?
621
00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:52,893
This company is about money, it's not
about conspiracies to run the world
622
00:34:53,059 --> 00:34:57,564
or you know engineer political
maneuvering, things like that.
623
00:34:57,731 --> 00:35:00,692
It's about making money,
and it's about making a lot of money,
624
00:35:00,859 --> 00:35:02,652
and they've done very well.
625
00:35:04,821 --> 00:35:07,449
[Helen Thomas] If I can get you
on the record on this question.
626
00:35:07,616 --> 00:35:12,329
In the White House view,
there is no ethical conflict
627
00:35:12,787 --> 00:35:16,750
in former President Bush
and former Secretary of State,
628
00:35:16,917 --> 00:35:20,795
Jim Baker, using their contacts
with world leaders to represent
629
00:35:20,962 --> 00:35:25,884
one of the most well-known military
arms dealers, the Carlyle Group?
630
00:35:26,051 --> 00:35:29,930
The president has full faith
that his family
631
00:35:30,096 --> 00:35:33,058
will conform with all proper
ethics laws, all ethics laws,
632
00:35:33,225 --> 00:35:34,684
and will act properly in their conduct.
633
00:35:34,851 --> 00:35:37,103
[Michael Moore] OK,
so let's say one group of people,
634
00:35:37,270 --> 00:35:38,772
like the American people,
635
00:35:38,939 --> 00:35:41,650
pay you $400,000 a year to be
636
00:35:41,816 --> 00:35:43,109
President of the United States.
637
00:35:43,944 --> 00:35:46,363
But then another group of people
invest in you,
638
00:35:46,530 --> 00:35:47,447
your friends
639
00:35:47,614 --> 00:35:49,783
and their related businesses
640
00:35:49,950 --> 00:35:52,410
1.4 billion dollars
over a number of years,
641
00:35:52,577 --> 00:35:53,787
who are you gonna like?
642
00:35:53,954 --> 00:35:55,330
Who's your daddy?
643
00:35:55,497 --> 00:35:56,373
Over here, sir!
644
00:35:56,540 --> 00:35:59,084
Because that's how much
the Saudi Royals and their associates
645
00:35:59,251 --> 00:36:00,418
have given the Bush family.
646
00:36:00,585 --> 00:36:01,836
[conversation and cameras]
647
00:36:02,003 --> 00:36:03,630
-Their friends...
-How are you, Sir?
648
00:36:03,797 --> 00:36:06,716
... and their related businesses
in the past three decades.
649
00:36:06,883 --> 00:36:09,469
We've had
a very nice reunion with friends.
650
00:36:09,636 --> 00:36:11,972
[Michael Moore] Is it rude
to suggest that when the Bush family
651
00:36:12,138 --> 00:36:13,348
wakes up in the morning,
652
00:36:13,515 --> 00:36:16,476
they might be thinking
about what's best for the Saudis
653
00:36:16,643 --> 00:36:19,271
instead of what's best for you or me?
654
00:36:19,437 --> 00:36:20,772
[small talk]
655
00:36:20,939 --> 00:36:24,818
'Cause 1.4 billion just doesn't buy
a lot of flights out of the country,
656
00:36:24,985 --> 00:36:26,945
it buys a lot of love.
657
00:36:27,112 --> 00:36:30,866
[R.E.M's "Shiny Happy People" playing]
658
00:36:31,032 --> 00:36:34,661
♪ Shiny happy people holding hands ♪
659
00:36:34,828 --> 00:36:38,540
♪ Shiny happy people laughing ♪
660
00:36:38,707 --> 00:36:42,377
♪ Everyone around ♪
661
00:36:42,544 --> 00:36:45,630
♪ Love them, love them ♪
662
00:36:46,464 --> 00:36:49,634
♪ Put it in your hands ♪
663
00:36:50,010 --> 00:36:53,513
♪ Take it, take it ♪
664
00:36:54,097 --> 00:36:57,017
♪ There's no time to cry ♪
665
00:36:57,726 --> 00:37:01,104
♪ Happy, happy ♪
666
00:37:01,688 --> 00:37:04,399
♪ Put it in your heart ♪
667
00:37:04,566 --> 00:37:08,653
♪ Where tomorrow shines ♪
668
00:37:11,281 --> 00:37:15,911
♪ Gold and silver shine ♪
669
00:37:18,830 --> 00:37:21,917
[Michael Moore] Sooner or later,
this special relationship with a regime
670
00:37:22,083 --> 00:37:27,088
that Amnesty International condemns
as a widespread human rights violator
671
00:37:27,255 --> 00:37:29,424
would come back to haunt the Bushes.
672
00:37:29,591 --> 00:37:33,011
Now, after 9/11,
it was an embarrassment,
673
00:37:33,178 --> 00:37:36,556
and they preferred that no one
asked any questions.
674
00:37:36,723 --> 00:37:40,268
The investigation should have begun
on September 12th, um...
675
00:37:40,435 --> 00:37:42,312
There's no reason
why it shouldn't have.
676
00:37:42,479 --> 00:37:44,439
3,000 people were dead, it was a murder,
677
00:37:44,606 --> 00:37:46,399
and it should have gotten
started immediately.
678
00:37:46,566 --> 00:37:48,527
[Michael Moore]
First, Bush tried to stop Congress
679
00:37:48,693 --> 00:37:51,071
from setting up
its own 9/11 investigation.
680
00:37:51,238 --> 00:37:53,198
It's important for us to, uh...
681
00:37:53,365 --> 00:37:55,075
[cameras clicking]
682
00:37:55,242 --> 00:37:57,577
not reveal how we collect information!
683
00:37:57,744 --> 00:38:00,539
That's what the enemy wants.
And we're fighting an enemy.
684
00:38:00,705 --> 00:38:02,624
[Michael Moore]
When he couldn't stop Congress,
685
00:38:02,791 --> 00:38:06,878
he then tried to stop an independent
9/11 commission from being formed.
686
00:38:07,045 --> 00:38:09,172
The president's position
was a break from history.
687
00:38:09,339 --> 00:38:12,592
Independent investigations were
launched within days of Pearl Harbor
688
00:38:12,759 --> 00:38:14,469
and President Kennedy's assassination.
689
00:38:14,636 --> 00:38:17,556
[Michael Moore] But when Congress
did complete its own investigation,
690
00:38:17,722 --> 00:38:20,851
the Bush White House censored
28 pages of the report.
691
00:38:21,017 --> 00:38:23,395
[Andrea Mitchell] The president is
being pressed by all sides
692
00:38:23,562 --> 00:38:25,063
to declassify the report.
693
00:38:25,230 --> 00:38:27,566
U.S. officials tell NBC News
most of the secret source
694
00:38:27,732 --> 00:38:29,818
involve Saudi Arabia.
695
00:38:29,985 --> 00:38:32,737
We have given
extraordinary cooperation
696
00:38:33,363 --> 00:38:35,699
with chairmen Keane and Hamilton.
697
00:38:35,866 --> 00:38:37,576
We haven't gotten
the materials we needed,
698
00:38:37,742 --> 00:38:39,870
and we certainly haven't
gotten them in a timely fashion.
699
00:38:40,036 --> 00:38:41,705
The deadlines we set have passed.
700
00:38:41,872 --> 00:38:43,915
Will you testify
before the commission?
701
00:38:44,082 --> 00:38:45,500
This commission?
702
00:38:45,667 --> 00:38:49,170
You know, I don't, testify.
I mean, I'd be glad to visit with them.
703
00:38:49,337 --> 00:38:52,382
What it will do is,
the hole that's in my heart,
704
00:38:52,549 --> 00:38:56,469
and has been in my heart
since September 11th,
705
00:38:56,636 --> 00:38:59,472
I lost my husband of fifteen years.
706
00:38:59,639 --> 00:39:02,517
I am now by myself. Um...
707
00:39:03,935 --> 00:39:06,438
I need to know what happened to him.
708
00:39:07,689 --> 00:39:12,152
I know what I got back,
from the... the autopsy.
709
00:39:12,319 --> 00:39:13,195
Uh...
710
00:39:13,361 --> 00:39:17,239
That man was my life,
and I have no plan.
711
00:39:18,199 --> 00:39:20,159
I took a... I was taking a class,
712
00:39:20,326 --> 00:39:23,704
and they asked me what was I going
to do in the next five years.
713
00:39:23,871 --> 00:39:26,165
And if I'm not doing something with this,
714
00:39:26,332 --> 00:39:28,584
I don't know what reason
I have to live.
715
00:39:28,751 --> 00:39:30,961
So, it's very important.
716
00:39:32,213 --> 00:39:33,505
Very important.
717
00:39:34,089 --> 00:39:36,509
OK? Thank you.
718
00:39:36,967 --> 00:39:38,552
[sniffling]
719
00:39:38,969 --> 00:39:40,971
[Michael Moore]
Ignored by the Bush administration,
720
00:39:41,138 --> 00:39:44,183
more than 500 relatives
of 9/11 victims
721
00:39:44,350 --> 00:39:47,353
filed suit
against Saudi royals and others.
722
00:39:48,062 --> 00:39:49,605
For lawyers,
the Saudi Defense Minister
723
00:39:49,772 --> 00:39:52,566
hired to fight the 9/11 families,
724
00:39:52,733 --> 00:39:57,404
the law firm of Bush family confident,
James A. Baker.
725
00:39:58,739 --> 00:40:01,825
So, right here in the center
of three important American landmarks,
726
00:40:01,992 --> 00:40:04,787
the Watergate hotel and office building,
727
00:40:04,954 --> 00:40:07,623
the Kennedy center over there,
728
00:40:08,457 --> 00:40:11,835
and the embassy of Saudi Arabia.
729
00:40:13,170 --> 00:40:14,213
Yeah! [chuckling]
730
00:40:14,380 --> 00:40:18,217
How much money do the Saudis
have invested in America, roughly?
731
00:40:18,384 --> 00:40:22,346
I've heard figures
as high as 860 billion dollars.
732
00:40:22,513 --> 00:40:24,306
[Michael Moore]
860 billion?
733
00:40:24,473 --> 00:40:25,474
Billion!
734
00:40:25,641 --> 00:40:27,768
-That's a lot of money!
-A lot!
735
00:40:28,269 --> 00:40:29,687
And, uh...
736
00:40:30,187 --> 00:40:32,857
what, what percentage of our economy
does that represent?
737
00:40:33,023 --> 00:40:34,066
It seems like a lot.
738
00:40:34,233 --> 00:40:36,777
[Craig Unger] Well, in terms
of in investments on Wall Street,
739
00:40:36,944 --> 00:40:38,904
American equities, it's roughly
740
00:40:39,071 --> 00:40:41,699
six or seven percent of America.
741
00:40:42,241 --> 00:40:44,326
They own a fairly
good slice of America.
742
00:40:44,869 --> 00:40:47,580
And most of that money goes
into the great blue chip companies.
743
00:40:47,746 --> 00:40:52,084
Citigroup, Citibank is
the largest stockholder is a Saudi.
744
00:40:52,251 --> 00:40:55,921
AOL Time Warner
has big Saudi investors.
745
00:40:56,088 --> 00:40:59,133
[Michael Moore] So, I read
the Saudis have a trillion dollars
746
00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:02,219
in our banks, of their money.
What would happen if like, one day,
747
00:41:02,386 --> 00:41:04,054
they just pulled
that trillion dollars out?
748
00:41:04,221 --> 00:41:05,514
[Craig Unger] A trillion dollars?
749
00:41:05,681 --> 00:41:07,474
That would be
an enormous blow to the economy.
750
00:41:07,641 --> 00:41:08,809
[Michael Moore] Right, right.
751
00:41:08,976 --> 00:41:10,352
Mr. Moore,
can I speak to you for a moment?
752
00:41:10,519 --> 00:41:11,478
[Michael Moore] Yeah, sure!
753
00:41:11,645 --> 00:41:13,355
-How are you?
-Good, how are you doing?
754
00:41:13,522 --> 00:41:15,399
Steve Kimball, Secret Service.
How are you, Sir?
755
00:41:15,566 --> 00:41:17,693
We're just ascertaining
information regarding...
756
00:41:17,860 --> 00:41:19,236
-Oh, OK.
-Are you doing a documentary
757
00:41:19,403 --> 00:41:21,405
regarding the Saudi Arabia embassy,
the chancellery?
758
00:41:21,572 --> 00:41:23,449
No, I am doing a documentary.
759
00:41:23,616 --> 00:41:25,284
-Right.
-Part of it is about Saudi Arabia.
760
00:41:25,451 --> 00:41:27,870
[voice over] Even though we were
nowhere near the White House,
761
00:41:28,037 --> 00:41:30,539
for some reason,
the Secret Service had shown up
762
00:41:30,706 --> 00:41:33,709
to ask us what we were doing
standing across the street
763
00:41:33,876 --> 00:41:34,960
from the Saudi embassy.
764
00:41:35,127 --> 00:41:37,004
We're not here to cause
any trouble or anything,
765
00:41:37,171 --> 00:41:39,548
uh, you know. Is that...
766
00:41:39,715 --> 00:41:41,342
No, that's fine.
We just wanted to make sure,
767
00:41:41,509 --> 00:41:43,844
just wanted to get some information
as far as what was actually going on.
768
00:41:44,011 --> 00:41:44,887
Yeah.
769
00:41:45,054 --> 00:41:48,265
I didn't realize the Secret Service
guards foreign embassies.
770
00:41:48,432 --> 00:41:49,850
Not usually. No, sir.
771
00:41:50,017 --> 00:41:52,353
No, no. Do they give you any trouble,
the Saudis?
772
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,313
Uh, no comment on that, sir.
773
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,565
Oh, OK, I'll take that as a yes.
774
00:41:56,732 --> 00:41:58,192
Alright, good.
Thank you very much.
775
00:41:58,359 --> 00:42:00,277
[Michael Moore]
It turns out that Saudi Prince Bandar
776
00:42:00,444 --> 00:42:03,405
is perhaps the best protected
ambassador in the U.S.
777
00:42:03,572 --> 00:42:07,868
The U.S. State Department provides him
with a six-man security detail.
778
00:42:08,035 --> 00:42:09,745
Considering how he and his family
779
00:42:09,912 --> 00:42:12,957
and the Saudi elite
own seven percent of America,
780
00:42:13,123 --> 00:42:15,626
it's probably not a bad idea.
781
00:42:15,793 --> 00:42:17,503
[light electronic tune]
782
00:42:17,670 --> 00:42:19,630
Prince Bandar
was so close to the Bushes,
783
00:42:19,797 --> 00:42:21,590
they considered him
a member of the family
784
00:42:21,757 --> 00:42:25,928
and they even had
a nickname for him, Bandar Bush.
785
00:42:26,095 --> 00:42:28,138
Two nights after September 11th,
786
00:42:28,305 --> 00:42:30,432
George Bush invited Bandar Bush
787
00:42:30,599 --> 00:42:33,727
over to the White House
for a private dinner and a talk.
788
00:42:35,020 --> 00:42:37,398
Even though Bin Laden was a Saudi,
789
00:42:37,565 --> 00:42:40,401
and Saudi money had funded Al-Qaeda,
790
00:42:40,568 --> 00:42:44,196
and 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis.
791
00:42:44,738 --> 00:42:47,283
Here was the Saudi ambassador
casually dining
792
00:42:47,449 --> 00:42:50,035
with the president on September 13th.
793
00:42:50,202 --> 00:42:51,453
[inaudible]
794
00:42:51,620 --> 00:42:53,873
What were they talking about?
795
00:42:54,540 --> 00:42:57,585
Were they commiserating?
Or comparing notes?
796
00:42:59,795 --> 00:43:01,630
Why would Bandar's government
797
00:43:02,339 --> 00:43:04,216
block American investigators
798
00:43:04,383 --> 00:43:07,303
from talking to the relatives
of the 15 hijackers?
799
00:43:10,097 --> 00:43:12,183
Why would Saudi Arabia become reluctant
800
00:43:12,349 --> 00:43:14,602
to freeze the hijacker's assets?
801
00:43:18,230 --> 00:43:20,649
The two of them walked out
on the Truman Balcony
802
00:43:20,816 --> 00:43:24,028
so that Bandar could smoke
a cigar and have a drink.
803
00:43:25,070 --> 00:43:30,117
In the distance, across the Potomac,
was the Pentagon, partially in ruins.
804
00:43:31,035 --> 00:43:34,580
I wonder if Mr. Bush told
Prince Bandar not to worry,
805
00:43:35,206 --> 00:43:38,125
because he already
had a plan in motion.
806
00:43:39,752 --> 00:43:43,464
[TV journalist] You come in September 12th
ready to plot what response
807
00:43:43,631 --> 00:43:45,633
we take to Al-Qaeda.
Let me talk to the...
808
00:43:45,799 --> 00:43:48,636
about the response that you got
from top administration officials.
809
00:43:48,802 --> 00:43:51,514
On that day,
what did the president say to you?
810
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,100
The president, in a very intimidating way,
left us, me and my staff,
811
00:43:55,267 --> 00:43:58,062
with the clear indication
812
00:43:58,229 --> 00:44:01,232
that he wanted us to come back
with the word that there was an Iraqi hand
813
00:44:01,398 --> 00:44:04,235
behind 9/11, because they had been
planning to do something
814
00:44:04,401 --> 00:44:06,403
about Iraq from before the time
they came into office.
815
00:44:06,570 --> 00:44:07,613
Did he ask about any other
816
00:44:07,780 --> 00:44:09,281
-nations other than Iraq?
-No. No, no.
817
00:44:09,448 --> 00:44:12,618
No, not at all, it was
"Iraq, Saddam, find out, get back to me!"
818
00:44:12,785 --> 00:44:15,663
And were his questions more
about Iraq than about Al-Qaeda?
819
00:44:15,829 --> 00:44:18,624
Absolutely. Absolutely!
He didn't ask me about Al-Qaeda.
820
00:44:18,791 --> 00:44:21,752
[TV journalist] The reaction you got from
the Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
821
00:44:21,919 --> 00:44:23,754
and from his assistant Paul Wolfowitz?
822
00:44:23,921 --> 00:44:25,130
Well, Donald Rumsfeld said
823
00:44:25,297 --> 00:44:28,843
when we talked about bombing the Al-Qaeda
infrastructure in Afghanistan,
824
00:44:29,009 --> 00:44:31,345
he said there were no good targets
in Afghanistan.
825
00:44:31,512 --> 00:44:33,055
"Let's bomb Iraq!"
826
00:44:33,222 --> 00:44:35,808
And we said:
"But Iraq had nothing to do with this."
827
00:44:35,975 --> 00:44:37,768
And that didn't seem
to make much difference.
828
00:44:37,935 --> 00:44:39,854
And the reason they had to do
Afghanistan first
829
00:44:40,020 --> 00:44:42,940
was it was obvious
that Al-Qaeda had attacked us
830
00:44:43,107 --> 00:44:45,818
and it was obvious
that Al-Qaeda was in Afghanistan.
831
00:44:45,985 --> 00:44:47,695
The American people
wouldn't have stood by
832
00:44:47,862 --> 00:44:49,530
if we had done
nothing on Afghanistan.
833
00:44:49,697 --> 00:44:53,200
[1960's The Magnificent Seven
theme song]
834
00:45:06,005 --> 00:45:08,841
[Michael Moore] The United States
began bombing Afghanistan
835
00:45:09,008 --> 00:45:13,220
just four weeks after 9/11,
Mr. Bush said he was doing so
836
00:45:13,387 --> 00:45:15,389
because the Taliban government
of Afghanistan
837
00:45:15,556 --> 00:45:17,808
had been harboring Bin Laden.
838
00:45:19,101 --> 00:45:20,811
I will smoke them out of their holes.
839
00:45:20,978 --> 00:45:22,354
We'll smoke them out!
Smoke him out!
840
00:45:22,521 --> 00:45:23,814
Smoke him out of his cave!
841
00:45:24,523 --> 00:45:26,233
Let's rush him and smoke him out!
842
00:45:26,817 --> 00:45:28,319
[Michael Moore]
For all this tough talk,
843
00:45:28,944 --> 00:45:31,447
Bush really didn't do much.
844
00:45:31,614 --> 00:45:34,783
But, what they did was slow and small.
845
00:45:34,950 --> 00:45:38,037
They put only 11,000 troops
into Afghanistan.
846
00:45:38,204 --> 00:45:39,788
There are more police here in Manhattan,
847
00:45:39,955 --> 00:45:43,626
more police here in Manhattan
than there are U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
848
00:45:43,792 --> 00:45:46,587
Basically the president botched
the response to 9/11,
849
00:45:46,754 --> 00:45:47,755
he should have gone after Bin Laden,
850
00:45:47,922 --> 00:45:49,965
the U.S. Special Forces
didn't get into the area
851
00:45:50,132 --> 00:45:53,052
where Bin Laden was for two months!
852
00:45:53,511 --> 00:45:54,929
[Michael Moore]
Two months?
853
00:45:55,721 --> 00:45:57,014
A mass murderer
854
00:45:57,181 --> 00:46:00,142
who attacked the Unites States
was given a two months head start?
855
00:46:01,101 --> 00:46:02,603
Who in their right mind
would do this?
856
00:46:02,770 --> 00:46:04,563
-[shooting]
-[shouting]
857
00:46:04,730 --> 00:46:06,232
Anybody say nice shot?
858
00:46:06,398 --> 00:46:08,317
[man] Nice shot! Hell of a shot.
859
00:46:08,484 --> 00:46:10,194
[Michael Moore]
Or was the war in Afghanistan
860
00:46:10,361 --> 00:46:12,238
really about something else?
861
00:46:12,404 --> 00:46:15,574
Perhaps the answer
was in Houston, Texas.
862
00:46:15,991 --> 00:46:18,494
[country music]
863
00:46:18,661 --> 00:46:22,248
In 1997, while George W. Bush
was governor of Texas,
864
00:46:22,414 --> 00:46:25,167
a delegation of Taliban leaders
from Afghanistan
865
00:46:25,751 --> 00:46:28,879
flew to Houston to meet
with Unocal executives
866
00:46:29,380 --> 00:46:32,466
to discuss the building
of a pipeline through Afghanistan,
867
00:46:32,633 --> 00:46:35,886
bringing natural gas from the Caspian Sea.
868
00:46:36,053 --> 00:46:38,264
And who got a Caspian Sea
drilling contract
869
00:46:38,430 --> 00:46:41,225
the same day Unocal signed
the pipeline deal?
870
00:46:41,392 --> 00:46:44,603
A company headed by a man
named Dick Cheney,
871
00:46:44,770 --> 00:46:45,688
Halliburton.
872
00:46:45,855 --> 00:46:47,565
From the point of view
of the U.S. government,
873
00:46:47,731 --> 00:46:50,401
this was kind of a magic pipeline,
874
00:46:50,568 --> 00:46:53,529
um, because it could serve
so many purposes.
875
00:46:53,696 --> 00:46:55,948
[Michael Moore] And who else stood
to benefit from the pipeline?
876
00:46:57,908 --> 00:47:00,703
Bush's number one
campaign contributor, Kenneth Lay,
877
00:47:00,870 --> 00:47:03,163
and the good people of Enron.
878
00:47:04,206 --> 00:47:07,334
Only the British press covered this trip.
879
00:47:07,918 --> 00:47:11,338
Then in 2001, just five and a half
months before 9/11,
880
00:47:12,172 --> 00:47:16,010
the Bush administration welcomed
a special Taliban envoy
881
00:47:16,177 --> 00:47:20,139
to tour the United States to help improve
the image of the Taliban government.
882
00:47:20,306 --> 00:47:22,266
[woman]
You have imprisoned the women.
883
00:47:22,433 --> 00:47:23,893
It's a horror, let me tell you.
884
00:47:24,059 --> 00:47:25,436
And I'm really sorry to your husband.
885
00:47:25,603 --> 00:47:27,354
He must have
a very difficult time with you.
886
00:47:27,521 --> 00:47:29,398
[Michael Moore]
Here is the Taliban official visiting
887
00:47:29,565 --> 00:47:32,860
our State Department
to meet with U.S. officials.
888
00:47:33,027 --> 00:47:34,445
[suspenseful tune]
889
00:47:34,612 --> 00:47:36,280
Why on Earth would
the Bush administration
890
00:47:36,447 --> 00:47:39,533
allow a Taliban leader
to visit the United States,
891
00:47:39,700 --> 00:47:42,036
knowing that the Taliban
were harboring the man
892
00:47:42,203 --> 00:47:44,288
who bombed the USS Cole
893
00:47:44,455 --> 00:47:46,290
and our African embassies?
894
00:47:47,208 --> 00:47:50,544
Well, I guess 9/11 put a stop to that.
895
00:47:51,170 --> 00:47:53,297
When the invasion
of Afghanistan was complete,
896
00:47:54,298 --> 00:47:56,050
we installed its new president,
897
00:47:56,217 --> 00:47:57,927
Hamid Karzai.
898
00:47:58,093 --> 00:48:00,054
Who was Hamid Karzai?
899
00:48:00,221 --> 00:48:03,641
He was a former advisor to Unocal.
900
00:48:03,807 --> 00:48:06,268
Bush also appointed
as our envoy to Afghanistan
901
00:48:07,061 --> 00:48:08,687
Zalmay Khalilzad
902
00:48:08,854 --> 00:48:11,899
who was also a former Unocal advisor.
903
00:48:12,066 --> 00:48:13,192
[Oriental tune]
904
00:48:13,692 --> 00:48:15,569
I guess you can probably see
905
00:48:15,736 --> 00:48:17,321
where this is leading.
906
00:48:17,488 --> 00:48:20,282
Faster than you can say
"Black Gold, Texas Tea",
907
00:48:20,449 --> 00:48:23,327
Afghanistan signed an agreement
with their neighboring countries
908
00:48:23,494 --> 00:48:26,330
to build a pipeline
through Afghanistan
909
00:48:26,497 --> 00:48:28,624
carrying natural gas
from the Caspian Sea.
910
00:48:29,333 --> 00:48:31,126
Oh, and the Taliban?
911
00:48:31,293 --> 00:48:32,294
[Peter Gunn theme]
912
00:48:32,461 --> 00:48:34,380
Ah, they mostly got away.
913
00:48:35,089 --> 00:48:37,842
As did Osama Bin Laden
and most of Al-Qaeda.
914
00:48:39,134 --> 00:48:41,095
[George W. Bush]
Terror is bigger than one person
915
00:48:41,846 --> 00:48:45,933
and, he's just... He's a person
who's now been marginalized.
916
00:48:46,100 --> 00:48:47,810
So I don't know where he is, nor--
917
00:48:47,977 --> 00:48:49,812
You know I just don't spend
that much time on him,
918
00:48:49,979 --> 00:48:51,188
to even be honest with you.
919
00:48:51,355 --> 00:48:53,357
[Michael Moore]
"Didn't spend that much time on him?"
920
00:48:53,524 --> 00:48:55,192
What kind of president was he?
921
00:48:55,734 --> 00:48:57,236
I'm a war president.
922
00:48:57,403 --> 00:49:00,239
I make decisions here
in the Oval Office, uh,
923
00:49:00,406 --> 00:49:02,783
in foreign policy matters,
with war on my mind.
924
00:49:03,617 --> 00:49:05,369
[Michael Moore]
With the war in Afghanistan over
925
00:49:05,536 --> 00:49:07,121
and Bin Laden, forgotten,
926
00:49:07,288 --> 00:49:09,665
the "war president" had a new target...
927
00:49:09,832 --> 00:49:11,709
[Fox newscast theme]
928
00:49:11,876 --> 00:49:13,794
... the American people.
929
00:49:18,090 --> 00:49:21,051
We've got an unusual terror warning
from the Feds to tell you about.
930
00:49:21,218 --> 00:49:25,556
Fox News has obtained an FBI bulletin
that warns terrorists could use pen guns,
931
00:49:25,723 --> 00:49:28,601
just like in James Bond,
filled with poison, as weapons.
932
00:49:28,767 --> 00:49:31,395
Good evening everyone,
America is on high alert tonight,
933
00:49:31,562 --> 00:49:33,147
just four days before Christmas.
934
00:49:33,314 --> 00:49:34,732
[W. Blitzer] A possible terror threat...
935
00:49:34,899 --> 00:49:37,735
As bad as, or worse than 9/11.
936
00:49:37,902 --> 00:49:39,612
[Joie Chen] But where? How?
937
00:49:39,778 --> 00:49:41,530
There's nothing specific to report.
938
00:49:41,697 --> 00:49:43,657
[Pierre Thomas] Be on the lookout
for model airplanes
939
00:49:43,824 --> 00:49:44,742
packed with explosives.
940
00:49:44,909 --> 00:49:47,161
[echoing horror scream]
941
00:49:47,328 --> 00:49:50,831
And the FBI is warning ferries
may be considered particularly at risk
942
00:49:50,998 --> 00:49:51,916
for hijacking.
943
00:49:52,082 --> 00:49:53,834
[echoing horror scream]
944
00:49:54,293 --> 00:49:57,046
[TV presenter] Could these cattle
be a target for terrorists?
945
00:49:57,213 --> 00:49:59,381
[mooing]
946
00:49:59,548 --> 00:50:02,510
-[Michael Moore] Fear works!
-Fear does work, yes!
947
00:50:02,676 --> 00:50:05,221
You can make people do
anything if they're afraid.
948
00:50:05,930 --> 00:50:08,098
[Michael Moore]
And how do you make them afraid?
949
00:50:08,265 --> 00:50:13,687
Well, you make them afraid
by creating an aura of endless threat.
950
00:50:13,854 --> 00:50:15,439
They played us like an organ.
951
00:50:15,606 --> 00:50:18,901
They raised the...
They lit the orange, and then up to red,
952
00:50:19,068 --> 00:50:20,486
and they dropped it back to orange.
953
00:50:20,653 --> 00:50:24,697
I mean, they gave these mixed messages,
which were crazy making.
954
00:50:24,864 --> 00:50:27,325
The world has changed
after September 11th.
955
00:50:27,492 --> 00:50:28,368
[drum rolls]
956
00:50:28,535 --> 00:50:30,745
It's changed
because we're no longer safe.
957
00:50:31,287 --> 00:50:35,124
Fly and enjoy
America's great destination spots.
958
00:50:35,291 --> 00:50:37,627
We've entered
what may very well prove to be
959
00:50:37,794 --> 00:50:40,713
the most dangerous
security environment the world's known.
960
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,383
Take your families and enjoy life!
961
00:50:43,550 --> 00:50:45,635
Terrorists are doing everything they can
962
00:50:45,802 --> 00:50:48,263
to gain even deadlier means
of striking us.
963
00:50:48,972 --> 00:50:51,057
Get down to Disney World in Florida.
964
00:50:51,224 --> 00:50:52,767
It's like training a dog.
965
00:50:52,934 --> 00:50:55,728
You tell him "Sit down” and you tell him
to roll over at the same time,
966
00:50:55,895 --> 00:50:56,938
dog doesn't know what to do.
967
00:50:57,105 --> 00:50:59,315
Well, the American people
were being treated like that.
968
00:50:59,482 --> 00:51:04,946
It was really very, very skillfully
and ugly what they did.
969
00:51:05,113 --> 00:51:07,740
-We must stop the terror!
-[cameras clicking]
970
00:51:07,907 --> 00:51:11,411
I call upon all nations
to do everything they can
971
00:51:11,578 --> 00:51:14,122
to stop these terrorists killers.
972
00:51:15,039 --> 00:51:16,374
Thank you.
973
00:51:16,833 --> 00:51:17,834
Now watch this drive.
974
00:51:18,001 --> 00:51:20,628
-[hitting sound]
-[cameras clicking]
975
00:51:20,795 --> 00:51:22,547
[man] Alright, hit another one!
976
00:51:23,131 --> 00:51:28,219
They will continue, in my view, as long as
this administration is in charge,
977
00:51:28,386 --> 00:51:32,473
of every once in a while
stimulating everybody to be afraid.
978
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:33,933
Just in case you forgot.
979
00:51:34,267 --> 00:51:36,895
It's not going to go down
to green or blue.
980
00:51:37,061 --> 00:51:38,396
It's never gonna get there.
981
00:51:38,563 --> 00:51:41,399
There clearly is no way
982
00:51:41,566 --> 00:51:45,486
that anyone
can live constantly on edge like that.
983
00:51:45,653 --> 00:51:48,198
The harsh reality facing
American families today
984
00:51:48,364 --> 00:51:50,783
is that they're not as safe
as they used to be.
985
00:51:50,950 --> 00:51:53,828
Drug dealers and users
looking for their next fix.
986
00:51:53,995 --> 00:51:57,165
Gangs who roam the streets
in search of their next victim,
987
00:51:57,332 --> 00:51:59,375
and the growing threat of terrorists
988
00:51:59,542 --> 00:52:01,961
means the need
for protection is ever greater.
989
00:52:02,128 --> 00:52:04,297
And now, that protection is here.
990
00:52:04,464 --> 00:52:06,925
Zytech Engineering, LLC has developed
991
00:52:07,091 --> 00:52:08,676
and tested a safe room
992
00:52:08,843 --> 00:52:11,262
finally affordable
to the average American citizen.
993
00:52:12,138 --> 00:52:13,932
The kind of protection
formerly obtainable
994
00:52:14,098 --> 00:52:15,850
only by the wealthy or powerful.
995
00:52:16,017 --> 00:52:19,521
Heck, you can be sitting in here
drinking your finest Bordeaux
996
00:52:19,687 --> 00:52:21,397
and enjoying life while
997
00:52:21,564 --> 00:52:23,024
chaos is erupting outside.
998
00:52:23,191 --> 00:52:24,108
[slamming]
999
00:52:24,275 --> 00:52:28,071
Every family in America
should prepare itself
1000
00:52:28,238 --> 00:52:29,656
for a terrorist attack.
1001
00:52:29,822 --> 00:52:32,742
Now to escaping from a skyscraper,
John Rivers
1002
00:52:32,909 --> 00:52:35,787
is the CEO
of the Executive Chute Corporation.
1003
00:52:35,954 --> 00:52:38,748
-Good morning to you, John.
-Good morning, Matt.
1004
00:52:38,915 --> 00:52:41,042
Tell me about the product
you're bringing to the market.
1005
00:52:41,209 --> 00:52:45,421
It's an emergency escape chute.
It's an option of last resort.
1006
00:52:45,588 --> 00:52:47,382
How high do you have
to be in the building
1007
00:52:47,549 --> 00:52:50,301
for that chute
to actually take effect?
1008
00:52:50,468 --> 00:52:53,263
You only have to be
on the tenth floor or above
1009
00:52:53,429 --> 00:52:56,307
-They can put this on themselves?
-Right.
1010
00:52:56,474 --> 00:52:59,060
They can put this on themselves
in as easy as about thirty seconds.
1011
00:52:59,227 --> 00:53:00,603
It's really easy to put on.
1012
00:53:01,813 --> 00:53:02,689
You...
1013
00:53:02,856 --> 00:53:03,857
-Sorry.
-It's okay.
1014
00:53:04,023 --> 00:53:06,067
Really easy to put on, but...
1015
00:53:08,236 --> 00:53:11,197
When you first get the chute,
you're gonna want to put it on
1016
00:53:11,364 --> 00:53:12,907
and try it on a few times yourself.
1017
00:53:13,074 --> 00:53:15,577
[Matt Lauer] Jamie's having a little
trouble putting that thing on,
1018
00:53:15,743 --> 00:53:18,079
I mean, is this something that,
that you honestly think
1019
00:53:18,246 --> 00:53:22,709
in a moment of panic,
that someone can operate properly?
1020
00:53:23,459 --> 00:53:25,253
[John Rivers]
Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is, it's...
1021
00:53:25,420 --> 00:53:29,382
Jamie's probably never put this thing
on before in her life, so...
1022
00:53:30,258 --> 00:53:31,885
It's okay, don't worry about it.
1023
00:53:32,051 --> 00:53:33,636
It's something that when you get it,
1024
00:53:33,803 --> 00:53:35,430
you're gonna want
to put it on several times.
1025
00:53:35,597 --> 00:53:37,932
Well, despite the raising
of the terror alert level,
1026
00:53:38,099 --> 00:53:41,227
residents here in Saginaw are continuing
with their Christmas errands.
1027
00:53:41,394 --> 00:53:44,522
Frances Stroik and her family do some
last minute holiday shopping
1028
00:53:44,689 --> 00:53:47,233
knowing that Al-Qaeda
is planning to attack America.
1029
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,695
She says being in Saginaw
doesn't make her feel any safer
1030
00:53:50,862 --> 00:53:52,780
than if she was in New York City.
1031
00:53:52,947 --> 00:53:54,866
Midland is close-by.
1032
00:53:55,033 --> 00:53:57,660
And I said:
"Detroit's not far, that far away",
1033
00:53:57,827 --> 00:53:59,245
I said: "there could be something",
1034
00:53:59,412 --> 00:54:04,250
and Flint could also be some,
be concerns for people around here.
1035
00:54:04,417 --> 00:54:07,212
Well you, you never know
where they're gonna hit.
1036
00:54:07,378 --> 00:54:10,256
[Jim Miklaszewski] One potential target
specifically mentioned by the terrorists
1037
00:54:10,423 --> 00:54:12,550
has security officials baffled.
1038
00:54:12,717 --> 00:54:17,138
It's tiny Tappahannock, Virginia,
population 2,016.
1039
00:54:17,305 --> 00:54:20,308
Such an attack
could generate widespread fear.
1040
00:54:20,475 --> 00:54:23,394
That even here,
in rural small town America,
1041
00:54:23,561 --> 00:54:25,730
no one is entirely safe.
1042
00:54:25,897 --> 00:54:27,106
Oh, on the six o'clock news,
1043
00:54:27,273 --> 00:54:29,734
there was something about
a terrorist alert in Tappahannock.
1044
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:31,903
[Michael Moore]
What did the FBI tell you?
1045
00:54:32,070 --> 00:54:34,280
Well, they contacted me by phone.
1046
00:54:34,447 --> 00:54:36,991
Uh, basically to let me know
about this word Tappahannock,
1047
00:54:37,158 --> 00:54:38,159
and that's how it started.
1048
00:54:38,326 --> 00:54:41,329
In their so-called chatter
that they pick up,
1049
00:54:41,496 --> 00:54:44,415
they weren't sure, "Tappahannock",
there's a "Rappahannock County".
1050
00:54:44,582 --> 00:54:45,792
This is the "Rappahannock River".
1051
00:54:46,209 --> 00:54:49,587
There is a Rappahannock,
a place called Rappahannock,
1052
00:54:49,754 --> 00:54:50,797
and they got it mixed up.
1053
00:54:50,964 --> 00:54:51,965
[rattling]
1054
00:54:52,131 --> 00:54:53,967
This is Tappahannock,
not Rappahannock.
1055
00:54:54,133 --> 00:54:55,760
Is there any terrorist target
around here?
1056
00:54:55,927 --> 00:54:57,262
Not that we can really think of.
1057
00:54:57,428 --> 00:54:58,304
It can happen anywhere.
1058
00:54:58,471 --> 00:55:00,807
-We have a Walmart here.
-We have a big spaghetti supper here.
1059
00:55:01,724 --> 00:55:02,892
Walmart, probably!
1060
00:55:03,059 --> 00:55:05,603
[Michael Moore]
Do you feel suspicious of outsiders?
1061
00:55:05,770 --> 00:55:06,980
Oh, everybody does it.
1062
00:55:08,064 --> 00:55:09,774
It's just something that happens.
1063
00:55:09,941 --> 00:55:13,945
When I look at certain people,
I wonder: "Oh, my goodness!
1064
00:55:14,112 --> 00:55:15,738
Do you think
they could be a terrorist?"
1065
00:55:15,905 --> 00:55:18,408
-You never know what's gonna happen.
-It's right, you never know!
1066
00:55:18,575 --> 00:55:19,701
It could happen right now.
1067
00:55:19,868 --> 00:55:20,869
[phone ringing]
1068
00:55:21,035 --> 00:55:23,079
Never trust nobody you don't know!
1069
00:55:24,205 --> 00:55:26,374
And even if you do know them,
you really can't trust them then.
1070
00:55:26,541 --> 00:55:28,084
[scary tune]
1071
00:55:28,251 --> 00:55:29,586
[Michael Moore]
From Tappahannock
1072
00:55:29,752 --> 00:55:31,004
to Rappahannock,
1073
00:55:31,170 --> 00:55:34,007
to every town and village in America,
1074
00:55:34,174 --> 00:55:35,842
the people were afraid.
1075
00:55:36,467 --> 00:55:39,345
And they turned to their leader
to protect them,
1076
00:55:39,512 --> 00:55:41,848
but protect them from what?
1077
00:55:43,308 --> 00:55:47,395
[singing "Let the Eagle Soar"]
1078
00:55:49,647 --> 00:55:55,320
♪ Like she's never soared before ♪
1079
00:55:55,486 --> 00:56:01,910
♪ From rocky coast to golden shore ♪
1080
00:56:02,076 --> 00:56:06,831
♪ Let the mighty eagle soar ♪
1081
00:56:07,916 --> 00:56:11,461
[Michael Moore]
Meet John Ashcroft, in 2000,
1082
00:56:11,628 --> 00:56:14,839
he was running for re-election
as Senator from Missouri
1083
00:56:15,006 --> 00:56:18,384
against the man who died
the month before the election.
1084
00:56:19,093 --> 00:56:21,763
The voters preferred the dead guy.
1085
00:56:22,388 --> 00:56:26,559
So, George W. Bush made him
his Attorney General.
1086
00:56:27,101 --> 00:56:29,479
He was sworn in on a stack of Bibles,
1087
00:56:29,646 --> 00:56:33,900
'cause when you can't beat a dead guy,
you need all the help you can get.
1088
00:56:34,442 --> 00:56:36,319
During the summer before 9/11,
1089
00:56:36,486 --> 00:56:39,822
Ashcroft told acting FBI director,
Thomas Pickard,
1090
00:56:39,989 --> 00:56:43,368
that he didn't want to hear anything
more about terrorist threats.
1091
00:56:43,535 --> 00:56:48,039
Mr. Watson had come to you
and said that the CIA was very concerned
1092
00:56:48,206 --> 00:56:50,083
that there would be an attack.
1093
00:56:50,250 --> 00:56:53,545
You said that you told
the Attorney General
1094
00:56:53,711 --> 00:56:56,589
this fact repeatedly in these meetings.
Is that correct?
1095
00:56:56,756 --> 00:56:58,091
[Thomas Pickard] I told him
1096
00:56:58,258 --> 00:56:59,801
at least on two occasions.
1097
00:56:59,968 --> 00:57:01,678
[Ben Veniste] And you told the staff,
1098
00:57:01,845 --> 00:57:04,931
according to this statement,
that Mr. Ashcroft told you
1099
00:57:05,098 --> 00:57:07,851
that he did not want to hear
about this anymore.
1100
00:57:08,017 --> 00:57:09,227
Is that correct?
1101
00:57:09,769 --> 00:57:10,687
That is correct.
1102
00:57:10,854 --> 00:57:12,230
[Michael Moore]
His own FBI knew that summer
1103
00:57:12,397 --> 00:57:15,483
that there were
Al-Qaeda members in the U.S.,
1104
00:57:15,650 --> 00:57:18,319
and that Bin Laden was sending
his agents to flight schools
1105
00:57:18,486 --> 00:57:20,280
around the country.
1106
00:57:20,446 --> 00:57:25,451
But Ashcroft's Justice Department
turned a blind eye and a deaf ear.
1107
00:57:25,910 --> 00:57:29,914
But after 9/11,
John Ashcroft had some brilliant ideas
1108
00:57:30,081 --> 00:57:31,958
for how to protect America.
1109
00:57:32,125 --> 00:57:34,502
[Elizabeth Hashagen] The U.S.A.
PATRIOT Act adopted by Congress
1110
00:57:34,669 --> 00:57:37,213
and signed by Bush
six weeks after the attacks
1111
00:57:37,380 --> 00:57:39,299
changed the way
the government does business.
1112
00:57:39,465 --> 00:57:42,510
The U.S.A. PATRIOT Act
allows for searches of medical
1113
00:57:42,677 --> 00:57:45,638
and financial records,
computer and telephone conversations,
1114
00:57:45,805 --> 00:57:48,099
and even for the books
you take out of the library.
1115
00:57:48,266 --> 00:57:50,226
But most of the people we spoke to
1116
00:57:50,393 --> 00:57:53,730
say they're willing to give up
some liberties to fight terrorism.
1117
00:57:53,897 --> 00:57:54,981
Maybe that's a good thing.
1118
00:57:55,148 --> 00:57:58,234
It's definitely sad,
but it has to be done.
1119
00:57:58,693 --> 00:58:01,154
[Michael Moore]
Yes, something needed to be done.
1120
00:58:01,321 --> 00:58:02,322
[joyous music]
1121
00:58:02,488 --> 00:58:05,491
These are the good people
who make up Peace Fresno.
1122
00:58:06,034 --> 00:58:08,077
A community group in Fresno, California.
1123
00:58:09,329 --> 00:58:10,997
Unlike the rest of us,
1124
00:58:11,164 --> 00:58:15,251
they've received an early lesson
in what the PATRIOT Act is all about.
1125
00:58:15,793 --> 00:58:19,505
Each week they meet
to discuss matters of peace!
1126
00:58:20,340 --> 00:58:22,884
They sit around, they share stories.
1127
00:58:23,676 --> 00:58:24,969
They eat cookies.
1128
00:58:25,803 --> 00:58:27,639
Some have more than one.
1129
00:58:27,805 --> 00:58:29,098
[laughter]
1130
00:58:29,265 --> 00:58:31,226
This is Aaron Stokes,
1131
00:58:31,392 --> 00:58:32,769
a member of Peace Fresno.
1132
00:58:33,770 --> 00:58:35,313
The other members liked him.
1133
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,024
[Eugenie Baranoff] He had come
to the meetings, he went with us,
1134
00:58:38,191 --> 00:58:39,484
we'd go out on Friday nights
1135
00:58:39,651 --> 00:58:42,320
and stand
on a very busy corner in Fresno,
1136
00:58:42,487 --> 00:58:45,698
and he had gone with us,
he had handed out flyers,
1137
00:58:45,865 --> 00:58:49,869
he went with us in June
to a W.T.O. protest.
1138
00:58:50,036 --> 00:58:52,789
[Michael Moore] Then one day,
Aaron didn't show up to the meeting.
1139
00:58:53,248 --> 00:58:56,543
My friend Dan and I were reading
the Sunday newspaper,
1140
00:58:56,709 --> 00:59:00,129
and when I picked up the paper,
in the local section,
1141
00:59:00,296 --> 00:59:01,965
Aaron's picture caught my eye.
1142
00:59:02,131 --> 00:59:05,426
The article said that a Sheriff's
deputy had been killed
1143
00:59:05,593 --> 00:59:08,847
and I saw it had a name
that wasn't the right name.
1144
00:59:09,013 --> 00:59:14,352
It said that he was a member
of the sheriff's anti-terrorism Unit.
1145
00:59:14,978 --> 00:59:16,312
[Michael Moore] That's right!
1146
00:59:16,479 --> 00:59:18,857
The photo of the man in the newspaper
1147
00:59:19,023 --> 00:59:22,569
was not the Aaron Stokes
they had come to know.
1148
00:59:22,735 --> 00:59:25,822
He was actually Deputy Aaron Kilner
1149
00:59:25,989 --> 00:59:28,116
and he had infiltrated their group.
1150
00:59:29,117 --> 00:59:32,036
[Catherine Campbell] Sheriff Pierce
made it very clear that yes, in fact,
1151
00:59:32,203 --> 00:59:35,039
Aaron Kilner was assigned
to infiltrate Peace Fresno,
1152
00:59:35,206 --> 00:59:38,501
that he was able
to infiltrate organizations
1153
00:59:38,668 --> 00:59:40,378
that are open to the public.
1154
00:59:40,962 --> 00:59:42,881
[Michael Moore]
You could understand why the police
1155
00:59:43,047 --> 00:59:45,425
needed to spy on a group
like Peace Fresno.
1156
00:59:45,884 --> 00:59:46,801
Just look at them!
1157
00:59:48,803 --> 00:59:50,972
A gathering of terrorists,
if I ever saw one!
1158
00:59:51,139 --> 00:59:52,265
[music fades away]
1159
00:59:53,057 --> 00:59:57,520
This is Barry Reingold, a retired
phone worker from Oakland, California.
1160
00:59:57,687 --> 00:59:58,605
[heroic tune]
1161
00:59:59,063 --> 01:00:01,858
Barry likes to work out in the gym.
1162
01:00:02,025 --> 01:00:05,403
Somewhere between his cardio
and his strength training,
1163
01:00:05,570 --> 01:00:07,280
Barry got political.
1164
01:00:08,031 --> 01:00:11,784
We were up in the gym
and it was after we were working out
1165
01:00:11,951 --> 01:00:16,456
and a number of us were talking
about 9/11 and Afghanistan and Bin Laden,
1166
01:00:16,623 --> 01:00:18,499
and someone said:
1167
01:00:18,666 --> 01:00:21,878
"Bin Laden's a real asshole
for murdering those people."
1168
01:00:22,045 --> 01:00:24,047
and I said: "Yeah that's true!
1169
01:00:24,214 --> 01:00:27,592
But he will never be
as big an asshole as Bush,
1170
01:00:27,759 --> 01:00:30,428
who bombs all over
the world for oil profits."
1171
01:00:30,595 --> 01:00:33,848
[Michael Moore] Barry didn't have
to worry about the police spying on him.
1172
01:00:34,807 --> 01:00:38,269
His fellow weight lifters were
more than willing to turn him in.
1173
01:00:38,436 --> 01:00:41,648
I was taking a nap,
and I guess it was 1:30 p.m.,
1174
01:00:41,814 --> 01:00:43,233
two o'clock in the afternoon,
1175
01:00:43,566 --> 01:00:46,611
and they came to my place and I said:
1176
01:00:46,778 --> 01:00:49,280
"Well, who's there?"
and they said: "The FBI."
1177
01:00:49,447 --> 01:00:50,573
I said: "The FBI?"
1178
01:00:50,740 --> 01:00:52,700
I mean, why are they here?
1179
01:00:52,867 --> 01:00:54,827
[Michael Moore]
Yes, the FBI had come to see Barry,
1180
01:00:55,787 --> 01:00:58,206
and they weren't
there to Jazzercize.
1181
01:00:58,373 --> 01:00:59,958
[Barry] The FBI said:
1182
01:01:00,124 --> 01:01:02,544
"Have you been talking
to people about 9/11
1183
01:01:02,710 --> 01:01:07,215
and about Bin Laden
and oil profits and Afghanistan?"
1184
01:01:07,382 --> 01:01:10,677
I said: "A lot of people
are talking about these things."
1185
01:01:10,844 --> 01:01:14,889
And I feel my rights have been,
you know, trampled on.
1186
01:01:15,056 --> 01:01:19,102
I mean, if you have something
to say to me in the gym, well, then, fine!
1187
01:01:19,269 --> 01:01:24,315
Don't tell the FBI and they come
to my apartment while I'm taking a nap.
1188
01:01:24,732 --> 01:01:27,818
There's nothing to be ashamed of here.
There is full transparency.
1189
01:01:27,985 --> 01:01:31,280
There is nothing about the PATRIOT Act
that I am ashamed of
1190
01:01:31,446 --> 01:01:33,407
in any way, shape or form.
1191
01:01:33,574 --> 01:01:35,742
I have a 1-800 number, call me!
1192
01:01:35,909 --> 01:01:39,413
I'm the guy you call,
if there's a violation or abuse.
1193
01:01:39,580 --> 01:01:42,958
If you've got a poster child on this,
I wanna see it, that's what I do.
1194
01:01:43,125 --> 01:01:45,836
I'm hired by the people
of the United States to provide oversight,
1195
01:01:46,003 --> 01:01:47,129
I provide oversight.
1196
01:01:47,296 --> 01:01:50,340
Trent Lott said
the day the bill was introduced:
1197
01:01:50,507 --> 01:01:54,595
"Maybe now we can do things we've wanted
to do for the last ten years."
1198
01:01:55,220 --> 01:01:57,931
You know, a dictatorship
would be a heck of a lot easier,
1199
01:01:58,098 --> 01:01:59,641
-it's no question about it.
-[laughter]
1200
01:01:59,808 --> 01:02:03,979
I mean, they had all this
on the shelf somewhere,
1201
01:02:04,146 --> 01:02:06,857
ideas of things they would like to do.
1202
01:02:07,024 --> 01:02:11,028
And they got 9/11 and they said:
"It's our chance! Go for it!"
1203
01:02:11,195 --> 01:02:15,282
There was an immediate assumption
on the part of the Administration
1204
01:02:15,449 --> 01:02:20,579
that there had to be a surrender
of certain of our rights.
1205
01:02:20,746 --> 01:02:23,248
There's several definitions
in the Bill that are quite troubling.
1206
01:02:23,415 --> 01:02:25,876
First of all,
the definition of "terrorist"!
1207
01:02:26,043 --> 01:02:31,965
It's so expansive
that it could include people--
1208
01:02:32,132 --> 01:02:33,675
-[Michael Moore] Like me?
-[laughing]
1209
01:02:33,842 --> 01:02:36,345
No one read it, that's the whole point!
1210
01:02:36,512 --> 01:02:39,431
They wait till the middle of the night,
they drop it in the middle of the night,
1211
01:02:39,598 --> 01:02:41,475
it's printed in the middle of the night,
1212
01:02:41,642 --> 01:02:43,977
and the next morning
when we come in, it passes.
1213
01:02:44,144 --> 01:02:46,188
[Michael Moore]
Erm, how could Congress
1214
01:02:46,355 --> 01:02:49,733
pass this PATRIOT Act
without even reading it?
1215
01:02:49,900 --> 01:02:51,193
Sit down, my son!
1216
01:02:52,319 --> 01:02:55,364
Uh, we don't read most of the bills.
1217
01:02:55,531 --> 01:02:57,199
[ethereal music]
1218
01:02:57,366 --> 01:03:00,118
Do you really know what that would entail
1219
01:03:00,285 --> 01:03:04,331
if we were to read every bill
that we pass?
1220
01:03:05,832 --> 01:03:07,167
Uh...
1221
01:03:07,751 --> 01:03:11,421
Well the good thing, it would slow down
the legislative process.
1222
01:03:11,588 --> 01:03:15,384
[Michael Moore] I couldn't believe that
virtually no member of Congress had read
1223
01:03:15,551 --> 01:03:17,761
the PATRIOT Act before voting on it.
1224
01:03:17,928 --> 01:03:22,266
So I decided the only
patriotic thing to do was for me
1225
01:03:22,432 --> 01:03:23,976
to read it to them.
1226
01:03:24,142 --> 01:03:25,310
[ice cream van music]
1227
01:03:25,477 --> 01:03:28,063
[on loudspeaker] Members of Congress,
this is Michael Moore!
1228
01:03:28,230 --> 01:03:30,774
I would like to read you
the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act!
1229
01:03:30,941 --> 01:03:35,821
Section one, section 210
of this code reads as follows!
1230
01:03:35,988 --> 01:03:37,781
Section 2703 C.
1231
01:03:37,948 --> 01:03:41,577
My job is to secure the homeland
and that's exactly what we're going to do.
1232
01:03:41,743 --> 01:03:43,370
But I'm here to take somebody's order.
1233
01:03:43,537 --> 01:03:45,205
-[accordion playing]
-[laughter]
1234
01:03:45,372 --> 01:03:46,957
That would be you, Stretch,
what would you like?
1235
01:03:47,124 --> 01:03:49,501
-Right behind you!
-I'm gonna order some ribs!
1236
01:03:49,668 --> 01:03:53,213
[Michael Moore] We all know you can't
secure the homeland on an empty stomach.
1237
01:03:53,380 --> 01:03:57,759
And in order to remain secure,
everyone needs to sacrifice.
1238
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,471
Especially little Patrick Hamilton.
1239
01:04:02,598 --> 01:04:07,186
I'm sure each of us has our own personal
airport security horror story.
1240
01:04:08,353 --> 01:04:09,688
But here's my favorite:
1241
01:04:10,772 --> 01:04:15,152
the terrorist threat that was posed
by his mommy's breast milk.
1242
01:04:15,319 --> 01:04:18,906
I thought if I just put a little bit
on my lips, then that would be sufficient
1243
01:04:19,072 --> 01:04:20,449
because obviously I'm tasting it.
1244
01:04:20,616 --> 01:04:23,118
And she looked at me
and I felt like she was telling me:
1245
01:04:23,285 --> 01:04:26,371
"You need to chug that."
She goes: "No, you need to drink more."
1246
01:04:26,538 --> 01:04:30,876
And of a four ounce bottle, I wound up
drinking two more ounces of breast milk
1247
01:04:31,043 --> 01:04:33,879
that, then, because it's touched my lips,
has to be tossed.
1248
01:04:34,504 --> 01:04:37,174
[Michael Moore] While Homeland Security
was making sure breast milk
1249
01:04:37,341 --> 01:04:38,842
was kept off our planes,
1250
01:04:39,343 --> 01:04:41,178
they were also doing everything possible
1251
01:04:41,345 --> 01:04:44,515
to ensure no one
could light a fire bomb on board.
1252
01:04:44,681 --> 01:04:46,308
[passenger]
I can bring that on the plane?
1253
01:04:46,475 --> 01:04:48,894
[officer]
Actually, you can, yes, you're fine.
1254
01:04:49,061 --> 01:04:50,812
Oops! One too many books of matches.
1255
01:04:50,979 --> 01:04:53,690
You can have four books of matches
and two lighters.
1256
01:04:53,857 --> 01:04:57,319
When we already have the experience
of Richard Reid, the shoe bomber,
1257
01:04:57,486 --> 01:04:58,487
who would have
1258
01:04:58,654 --> 01:05:00,405
blown up an airplane with his shoe bomb,
1259
01:05:00,572 --> 01:05:02,491
had he had a butane lighter,
according to the FBI,
1260
01:05:02,658 --> 01:05:05,202
why would the Transportation
Security Agency say it's okay
1261
01:05:05,369 --> 01:05:07,704
to take four books of matches
and two lighters in your pockets
1262
01:05:07,871 --> 01:05:08,872
as you board an airplane?
1263
01:05:09,039 --> 01:05:10,707
I'm guessing that somebody
1264
01:05:10,874 --> 01:05:13,502
put pressure on them to say, you know:
1265
01:05:13,669 --> 01:05:15,921
"When an airplane lands,
people want to light up pretty quickly,
1266
01:05:16,088 --> 01:05:17,381
so don't take their lighters away."
1267
01:05:17,548 --> 01:05:19,550
[Michael Moore]
OK, let me see if I got this straight!
1268
01:05:19,716 --> 01:05:21,635
Old guys in the gym? Bad.
1269
01:05:21,802 --> 01:05:23,554
Peace groups in Fresno? Bad.
1270
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,681
Breast milk? Really bad.
1271
01:05:25,848 --> 01:05:28,350
But matches and lighters on a plane?
Oh, hey, no problem!
1272
01:05:28,517 --> 01:05:33,564
Was this really about our safety?
Or was something else going on?
1273
01:05:33,730 --> 01:05:35,440
[waves]
1274
01:05:35,607 --> 01:05:40,571
This is where the Pacific Ocean
meets the shores of Oregon,
1275
01:05:40,737 --> 01:05:44,449
over 100 miles of beautiful
open coastline on our border.
1276
01:05:45,325 --> 01:05:48,161
And, thanks to the budget cutbacks,
1277
01:05:48,996 --> 01:05:51,748
the total number of State police
protecting it...
1278
01:05:52,958 --> 01:05:54,084
One!
1279
01:05:55,586 --> 01:05:56,795
Part-time.
1280
01:05:57,796 --> 01:05:59,131
Meet trooper Brooks.
1281
01:06:00,007 --> 01:06:03,677
[trooper Brooks] I maybe get a chance
to hit this stretch of highway
1282
01:06:03,844 --> 01:06:07,264
once, maybe twice
a week during my shifts.
1283
01:06:07,431 --> 01:06:11,226
Um, you know,
it's just to even drive up here and look.
1284
01:06:12,311 --> 01:06:13,770
You know, I mean, as far as I know,
1285
01:06:13,937 --> 01:06:16,064
somebody could...
There's lot of things they could do.
1286
01:06:16,231 --> 01:06:19,443
I don't even want to suspect,
because it just makes me ill inside.
1287
01:06:19,610 --> 01:06:21,737
[Michael Moore]
Back at the State trooper patrol office,
1288
01:06:21,904 --> 01:06:26,658
thanks to the budget cuts, trooper Kenyon
had to come in on his day off to catch up
1289
01:06:26,825 --> 01:06:28,160
on some paperwork.
1290
01:06:28,327 --> 01:06:31,079
For the most part, especially during
the summertime, when people show up,
1291
01:06:31,246 --> 01:06:33,540
this is exactly what they get,
they close the door,
1292
01:06:33,707 --> 01:06:36,376
they can read the sign
about the office closure,
1293
01:06:36,543 --> 01:06:39,963
and, it just basically explains that,
you know, due to our cutbacks,
1294
01:06:40,130 --> 01:06:42,925
that our office is not open
for administrative business.
1295
01:06:43,091 --> 01:06:46,094
There's a little sign down at the bottom
that explains when the office is closed.
1296
01:06:46,261 --> 01:06:51,767
And that they can use the phone booth
to get in touch with our dispatch.
1297
01:06:52,476 --> 01:06:55,938
Ironically enough, that phone is a piece
of junk, it doesn't work very well,
1298
01:06:56,104 --> 01:06:58,440
so, half the time,
when they pick up the phone
1299
01:06:58,607 --> 01:07:02,277
and dispatch gets a bunch of static
and they don't hear anything.
1300
01:07:02,903 --> 01:07:05,948
For Tuesday,
there'll be no troop on patrol.
1301
01:07:06,114 --> 01:07:07,908
Wednesday,
there'll be no troop on patrol.
1302
01:07:08,075 --> 01:07:10,244
Thursday,
there'll be no troop on patrol
1303
01:07:10,410 --> 01:07:14,039
You get calls all the time,
people will call in a suspicious vehicle,
1304
01:07:14,206 --> 01:07:16,667
or somebody looking suspicious,
you know...
1305
01:07:16,833 --> 01:07:19,836
And I don't hardly ever respond
to that anymore.
1306
01:07:20,003 --> 01:07:21,380
I just don't have the time to do it.
1307
01:07:21,547 --> 01:07:23,966
One night I asked: "How many people
do we have in this state of Oregon
1308
01:07:24,132 --> 01:07:25,843
on duty tonight?"
1309
01:07:26,009 --> 01:07:30,722
And we had eight troopers on
for the entire state of Oregon working.
1310
01:07:32,975 --> 01:07:35,894
I think, you know,
Oregon is a prime example
1311
01:07:36,061 --> 01:07:39,231
that homeland security
is not as secure as what,
1312
01:07:39,398 --> 01:07:41,608
I think, people would like to believe.
1313
01:07:41,775 --> 01:07:44,611
Nobody's sent me any manual that says
here's how you catch a terrorist,
1314
01:07:44,778 --> 01:07:47,573
you know,
and if I had that manual, I'd read it.
1315
01:07:47,739 --> 01:07:49,074
But I don't, so...
1316
01:07:50,284 --> 01:07:51,285
Yeah...
1317
01:07:52,703 --> 01:07:55,455
[Michael Moore] Of course, the Bush
administration didn't hand out a manual
1318
01:07:55,622 --> 01:07:57,332
on how to deal with the terrorist threat,
1319
01:07:57,499 --> 01:08:01,545
because the terrorist threat wasn't
what this was all about.
1320
01:08:02,421 --> 01:08:04,798
They just wanted us to be fearful enough
1321
01:08:04,965 --> 01:08:08,635
so that we'd get behind
what their real plan was.
1322
01:08:09,636 --> 01:08:13,432
[metallic rustling]
1323
01:08:13,599 --> 01:08:14,766
[female voice]
Four minutes!
1324
01:08:14,933 --> 01:08:15,893
Start from the top!
1325
01:08:16,059 --> 01:08:18,061
[cameraman]
Okay. Alright?
1326
01:08:18,228 --> 01:08:20,147
-[fiddling]
-How much time?
1327
01:08:20,314 --> 01:08:22,357
-[female voice] Three minutes!
-[director] Stand by!
1328
01:08:22,524 --> 01:08:25,360
[inaudible directions]
1329
01:08:25,527 --> 01:08:26,737
[female voice]
30 seconds!
1330
01:08:26,904 --> 01:08:28,906
[airplane throbbing]
1331
01:08:29,072 --> 01:08:30,407
[woman off-screen] Fifteen seconds!
1332
01:08:33,619 --> 01:08:38,498
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,
1333
01:08:38,665 --> 01:08:42,377
four, three, two, one.
1334
01:08:43,128 --> 01:08:44,254
My fellow citizens!
1335
01:08:44,421 --> 01:08:48,425
[general street noise and chatter]
1336
01:08:48,592 --> 01:08:51,512
[crowd noise]
1337
01:08:51,678 --> 01:08:55,224
[kids screaming]
1338
01:08:55,390 --> 01:08:59,311
[traffic noise]
1339
01:08:59,478 --> 01:09:00,521
[sound of clippers]
1340
01:09:00,687 --> 01:09:04,942
[chat in Arabic]
1341
01:09:05,108 --> 01:09:07,986
[restaurant activity]
1342
01:09:08,153 --> 01:09:09,112
[inaudible]
1343
01:09:09,279 --> 01:09:12,282
[bike squeaking]
1344
01:09:12,449 --> 01:09:14,076
[kids chatting]
1345
01:09:15,410 --> 01:09:17,287
-[birds chirping]
-[kids laughing]
1346
01:09:17,454 --> 01:09:18,664
[George W. Bush]
At this hour,
1347
01:09:18,830 --> 01:09:23,293
American and coalition forces are
in the early stages of military operations
1348
01:09:23,460 --> 01:09:28,799
to disarm Iraq, to free its people,
and to defend the world from grave danger.
1349
01:09:28,966 --> 01:09:33,053
On my orders, coalition forces have begun
striking selected targets
1350
01:09:33,220 --> 01:09:36,098
of military importance
to undermine Saddam Hussein's
1351
01:09:36,265 --> 01:09:38,100
ability to wage a war.
1352
01:09:38,267 --> 01:09:39,142
[sliding sound]
1353
01:09:39,309 --> 01:09:41,687
[repetitive explosions]
1354
01:09:50,195 --> 01:09:55,117
[sirens ringing]
1355
01:10:01,081 --> 01:10:04,042
[Michael Moore] On March 19th, 2003,
1356
01:10:04,209 --> 01:10:07,462
George W. Bush
and the United States military
1357
01:10:07,629 --> 01:10:09,965
invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq.
1358
01:10:10,132 --> 01:10:11,258
[explosion]
1359
01:10:11,425 --> 01:10:14,469
A nation that had never attacked
the United States.
1360
01:10:14,636 --> 01:10:16,346
[explosion]
1361
01:10:16,513 --> 01:10:20,434
A nation that had never threatened
to attack the Unites States.
1362
01:10:20,601 --> 01:10:21,435
[explosions]
1363
01:10:21,894 --> 01:10:25,647
A nation that had never murdered
a single American citizen.
1364
01:10:26,982 --> 01:10:30,777
[in Arabic] What's this baby's crime?
Was he going to fight the soldiers?
1365
01:10:30,944 --> 01:10:33,989
Cowards! I went out with a bat
and asked the soldier to hit me.
1366
01:10:34,156 --> 01:10:39,703
I swear on the Quran.
Those who don't fear death don't die.
1367
01:10:40,579 --> 01:10:43,874
[woman crying and wailing]
1368
01:10:44,041 --> 01:10:46,501
[indistinct chatter in Arabic]
1369
01:10:47,085 --> 01:10:52,633
Now, we're going to find this,
I think, piece of my neighbor, young girl.
1370
01:10:52,799 --> 01:10:54,843
Age twenty, Sham's.
1371
01:10:55,010 --> 01:10:58,889
I think is other part of her body.
That's all.
1372
01:10:59,056 --> 01:11:01,183
[men chat in Arabic]
1373
01:11:01,350 --> 01:11:04,228
There is a lot of innocent civilians
that were killed
1374
01:11:04,394 --> 01:11:07,481
and I think
that's because the U.S. Army,
1375
01:11:07,648 --> 01:11:09,900
you know, we came in,
1376
01:11:10,067 --> 01:11:11,527
and we knew it wasn't gonna be easy,
1377
01:11:11,693 --> 01:11:14,196
and they pretty much at first,
shot anything that moved.
1378
01:11:14,363 --> 01:11:16,031
When war happens and the fighting starts,
1379
01:11:16,198 --> 01:11:19,034
you know, it's kinda like we're pumped up
and motivated and ready to go.
1380
01:11:19,201 --> 01:11:20,536
It's the ultimate rush.
1381
01:11:20,702 --> 01:11:23,163
'cause you know you're going
into the fight to begin with,
1382
01:11:23,330 --> 01:11:25,874
and then you got a good song playing
in the background,
1383
01:11:26,041 --> 01:11:30,254
and that's... That gets you
real fired up, ready to do the job.
1384
01:11:30,420 --> 01:11:34,007
You can hook your CD player to the tank's
internal communications system.
1385
01:11:34,174 --> 01:11:35,217
To the Charlie box.
1386
01:11:35,384 --> 01:11:37,803
So that way, when you put your helmet on,
you can hear it through it.
1387
01:11:37,970 --> 01:11:41,014
This is the one we listen to the most,
this is the one we travel
1388
01:11:41,181 --> 01:11:42,599
when we kill the enemy,
1389
01:11:42,766 --> 01:11:44,768
Drowning Pool's
"Let the Bodies Hit the Floor"
1390
01:11:44,935 --> 01:11:46,979
is just fitting for the job we were doing.
1391
01:11:47,145 --> 01:11:48,814
[Drowning Pool's"Bodies" playing]
1392
01:11:48,981 --> 01:11:50,190
[screaming]
1393
01:11:53,902 --> 01:11:56,947
"The Roof is on Fire",
because basically it symbolized
1394
01:11:57,114 --> 01:11:58,866
Baghdad being on fire
1395
01:11:59,032 --> 01:12:01,827
and at the time we wanted it to burn
to get Saddam and his regime out.
1396
01:12:01,994 --> 01:12:03,370
[explosion]
1397
01:12:03,537 --> 01:12:06,081
[soldier singing]
♪ The roof, the roof is on fire ♪
1398
01:12:06,748 --> 01:12:10,252
♪ We don't need no water
Let the motherfucker burn ♪
1399
01:12:10,919 --> 01:12:13,422
♪ Burn, motherfucker, burn ♪
1400
01:12:13,589 --> 01:12:17,885
[Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three's
"The Roof is on Fire" playing]
1401
01:12:18,594 --> 01:12:22,222
♪ Burn, motherfucker, burn ♪
1402
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:28,770
[soldier] This is a whole totally
different picture here, being pushed into
1403
01:12:28,937 --> 01:12:30,981
the city, urban warfare in a tank,
you know!
1404
01:12:31,148 --> 01:12:33,275
-[loud engine]
-Civilians!
1405
01:12:34,233 --> 01:12:35,735
Yeah, the civilians, it gets...
1406
01:12:35,902 --> 01:12:37,987
You don't know who's friendly,
who's enemy.
1407
01:12:38,362 --> 01:12:41,574
[soldier] This was a lot more real
and true than just a video game.
1408
01:12:41,741 --> 01:12:44,702
A lot of people thought it was gonna be:
"Yeah, look through the sight and shoot!"
1409
01:12:44,869 --> 01:12:48,831
No, a lot of this is face to face,
and especially riding by
1410
01:12:48,998 --> 01:12:51,709
after the bombs that went off
and seeing all the people
1411
01:12:51,876 --> 01:12:54,462
on the side of the road bloated up,
and just...
1412
01:12:54,629 --> 01:12:58,341
all the smells around you, I mean,
from the people lying dead and rotted.
1413
01:12:58,508 --> 01:13:01,010
It's... It's a lot
more gruesome than you think.
1414
01:13:01,594 --> 01:13:04,514
[other soldier] We called in with some
artillery and napalm and things like that.
1415
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:06,641
Some innocent women and children got hit.
1416
01:13:07,058 --> 01:13:08,768
We met them on the road and they had...
1417
01:13:08,935 --> 01:13:11,562
I mean, little girls with noses blown off
1418
01:13:11,729 --> 01:13:16,234
and husbands carrying
their dead wives and things like that.
1419
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:18,778
That was extremely difficult
to deal with 'cause you're like:
1420
01:13:18,945 --> 01:13:21,489
"Shoot, what the hell do we do now?"
1421
01:13:23,199 --> 01:13:26,035
The targeting capabilities
and the care that goes into targeting...
1422
01:13:26,202 --> 01:13:29,205
[explosion]
1423
01:13:29,956 --> 01:13:31,832
-... is as impressive...
-[screaming]
1424
01:13:31,999 --> 01:13:33,334
...as anything, anyone could see.
1425
01:13:33,501 --> 01:13:35,920
[automatic rifle shooting]
1426
01:13:36,087 --> 01:13:38,589
[soldier, through radio]
Ah, erm... I get one! The other one!
1427
01:13:38,756 --> 01:13:41,676
[automatic rifle shooting]
1428
01:13:41,843 --> 01:13:45,054
The care that goes into it,
the humanity that goes into it!
1429
01:13:45,221 --> 01:13:48,182
[in Arabic] They have no conscience!
They know nothing!
1430
01:13:48,349 --> 01:13:51,936
They slaughtered us!
They destroyed our houses!
1431
01:13:52,103 --> 01:13:55,064
God will destroy their houses!
God is great!
1432
01:13:55,231 --> 01:13:58,776
God will destroy their houses!
God is great!
1433
01:13:58,943 --> 01:14:01,320
God is great!
Victory to Iraq!
1434
01:14:01,487 --> 01:14:04,574
Victory to Iraq!
Victory to Iraq!
1435
01:14:04,740 --> 01:14:05,825
[crying]
1436
01:14:05,992 --> 01:14:08,035
[TV reporter, in Arabic]
You mean they killed civilians?
1437
01:14:08,202 --> 01:14:10,830
Yes, civilians! It's our uncle's house!
1438
01:14:10,997 --> 01:14:14,542
We're all civilians.
There is no militia here.
1439
01:14:15,126 --> 01:14:17,753
I pray to God to avenge us!
I can only count on you, God!
1440
01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:19,797
I can only count on you, God!
1441
01:14:19,964 --> 01:14:23,050
[crying]
1442
01:14:23,217 --> 01:14:25,803
We've had five funerals
because of the bombings.
1443
01:14:25,970 --> 01:14:28,848
Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God!
1444
01:14:29,015 --> 01:14:31,684
[crying]
1445
01:14:31,851 --> 01:14:33,853
Oh, God!
1446
01:14:34,020 --> 01:14:35,188
[crying]
1447
01:14:35,354 --> 01:14:36,731
God save us from them!
1448
01:14:36,898 --> 01:14:38,274
God, where are you?
1449
01:14:38,441 --> 01:14:40,193
Where are you?
1450
01:14:40,359 --> 01:14:42,195
[crying]
1451
01:14:42,361 --> 01:14:44,405
[chewing gum]
1452
01:14:44,572 --> 01:14:48,201
Honestly, I think we should just trust our
President in every decision that he makes
1453
01:14:48,367 --> 01:14:50,661
and we should just support that, you know,
1454
01:14:50,828 --> 01:14:53,372
and, um, be faithful in what happens.
1455
01:14:53,539 --> 01:14:55,416
-Do you trust this president?
-Yes, I do.
1456
01:14:55,583 --> 01:14:56,667
[clapping]
1457
01:14:57,543 --> 01:15:00,463
[Michael Moore]
Britney Spears was not alone.
1458
01:15:00,630 --> 01:15:04,634
The majority of American people trusted
the president, and why shouldn't they?
1459
01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:05,801
[cheering]
1460
01:15:05,968 --> 01:15:10,056
He had spent the better part of last year
giving them every reason why
1461
01:15:10,223 --> 01:15:12,016
we should invade Iraq.
1462
01:15:12,183 --> 01:15:17,438
Saddam Hussein has gone
to elaborate lengths, spent enormous sums,
1463
01:15:17,605 --> 01:15:21,901
taken great risks to build
and keep weapons of mass destruction.
1464
01:15:22,068 --> 01:15:26,113
Saddam Hussein is determined
to get his hands on a nuclear bomb
1465
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:28,658
[repeats wrongly] "Nucular" weapon.
1466
01:15:28,824 --> 01:15:31,661
[Colin Powell]
Active chemical munitions bunkers,
1467
01:15:31,827 --> 01:15:33,538
mobile production facilities.
1468
01:15:33,704 --> 01:15:35,581
We know he's got chemical weapons.
1469
01:15:35,748 --> 01:15:37,750
[repeats] He's got them!
1470
01:15:38,209 --> 01:15:40,127
[Michael Moore]
Huh, that's weird,
1471
01:15:40,294 --> 01:15:43,673
because that's not what Bush's people
said when he first took office.
1472
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:47,009
He has not developed
any significant capability
1473
01:15:47,176 --> 01:15:48,928
with respect to weapons of mass
destruction.
1474
01:15:49,095 --> 01:15:52,557
He is unable to project
conventional power against his neighbors.
1475
01:15:52,723 --> 01:15:57,395
We are able to keep arms from him.
His military forces have not been rebuilt.
1476
01:15:57,562 --> 01:16:00,523
Saddam Hussein aids
and protects terrorists
1477
01:16:01,732 --> 01:16:03,860
including members of Al-Qaeda.
1478
01:16:04,026 --> 01:16:07,029
There was a relationship
between Iraq and Al-Qaeda.
1479
01:16:07,196 --> 01:16:09,532
[repeatedly alternates]
Saddam! Al-Qaeda!
1480
01:16:09,699 --> 01:16:11,200
Saddam! Al-Qaeda!
1481
01:16:11,367 --> 01:16:13,119
Saddam! Saddam! Al-Qaeda!
1482
01:16:13,286 --> 01:16:14,579
It is only a matter of time
1483
01:16:14,745 --> 01:16:18,082
before terrorist states armed
with weapons of mass destruction
1484
01:16:18,249 --> 01:16:21,586
develop the capability to deliver
those weapons to U.S. cities.
1485
01:16:21,752 --> 01:16:25,882
What we are giving you are facts and
conclusions based on solid intelligence.
1486
01:16:29,719 --> 01:16:31,220
The man who hates America.
1487
01:16:31,387 --> 01:16:34,265
This is a man who cannot stand
what we stand for.
1488
01:16:34,432 --> 01:16:37,852
His willingness to terrorize himself!
1489
01:16:38,019 --> 01:16:41,355
He hates the fact, like Al-Qaeda does,
that we love freedom.
1490
01:16:41,522 --> 01:16:44,442
After all, this is the guy that tried
to kill my dad at one time.
1491
01:16:44,609 --> 01:16:47,695
They simply got people to believe
1492
01:16:47,862 --> 01:16:51,240
that there was a real threat out there,
when in fact, there wasn't one.
1493
01:16:51,407 --> 01:16:54,076
You get told things every day
that don't happen,
1494
01:16:54,243 --> 01:16:55,828
it doesn't seem to bother people.
1495
01:16:55,995 --> 01:16:58,164
[Michael Moore]
Of course, the Democrats were there
1496
01:16:58,331 --> 01:17:00,124
to put a stop to all these falsehoods.
1497
01:17:00,291 --> 01:17:03,836
I will vote to give the president
the authority he needs.
1498
01:17:04,003 --> 01:17:05,755
The United States is prepared to lead
1499
01:17:05,922 --> 01:17:08,132
a coalition of the willing
that will do it.
1500
01:17:08,299 --> 01:17:10,801
When I say we will lead
a coalition of the willing
1501
01:17:10,968 --> 01:17:13,513
to disarm him if he chooses
not to disarm, I mean it.
1502
01:17:13,679 --> 01:17:15,598
Who is in that Coalition
of the Willing now, are...
1503
01:17:15,765 --> 01:17:17,433
You will find out who's in it.
1504
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:18,893
[epic music]
1505
01:17:19,060 --> 01:17:21,729
[spoofing man voice]
The Coalition of the Willing!
1506
01:17:21,896 --> 01:17:25,858
Roll call!
The Republic of Palau.
1507
01:17:26,025 --> 01:17:30,279
The Republic of Costa Rica!
1508
01:17:30,696 --> 01:17:34,200
The Republic of Iceland!
1509
01:17:34,367 --> 01:17:36,994
[Michael Moore] Of course,
none of these countries has an army,
1510
01:17:37,161 --> 01:17:39,080
or for that matter, weapons,
1511
01:17:39,247 --> 01:17:42,458
so it looked like we'd be doing
most of the invading stuff ourselves.
1512
01:17:42,625 --> 01:17:43,501
[horns ringing]
1513
01:17:43,668 --> 01:17:44,669
Then, there was also...
1514
01:17:44,835 --> 01:17:47,255
[spoofing voice] Romania!
1515
01:17:47,421 --> 01:17:51,509
The Kingdom of Morocco!
1516
01:17:52,552 --> 01:17:55,304
Morocco wasn't officially
a member of the coalition,
1517
01:17:55,471 --> 01:17:57,306
but according to one report,
1518
01:17:57,473 --> 01:17:59,100
they did offer
to send 2,000 monkeys
1519
01:17:59,267 --> 01:18:00,768
to help detonate landmines.
1520
01:18:00,935 --> 01:18:02,395
[monkeys screaming]
1521
01:18:02,562 --> 01:18:04,188
These are men of vision!
1522
01:18:04,355 --> 01:18:05,982
[spoofing voice] The Netherlands!
1523
01:18:06,148 --> 01:18:07,942
And I'm proud,
I'm proud to call them allies.
1524
01:18:08,109 --> 01:18:09,360
[monkeys screaming]
1525
01:18:09,527 --> 01:18:11,487
[spoofing voice] Afghanistan!
1526
01:18:12,113 --> 01:18:15,908
[Michael Moore] Afghanistan?
Oh, yeah, they had an army.
1527
01:18:16,075 --> 01:18:17,285
Our army!
1528
01:18:18,077 --> 01:18:20,288
I guess that's one way
to build a coalition.
1529
01:18:20,454 --> 01:18:22,623
Just keep invading countries.
1530
01:18:23,374 --> 01:18:26,168
Yes, with our mighty coalition intact,
1531
01:18:26,335 --> 01:18:27,420
we were ready!
1532
01:18:27,587 --> 01:18:28,838
[Donald Rumsfeld] One could almost say
1533
01:18:29,005 --> 01:18:30,798
it's the mother of all coalitions.
1534
01:18:30,965 --> 01:18:33,593
♪ America ♪
1535
01:18:33,759 --> 01:18:36,012
[Michael Moore]
Fortunately, we have an independent media
1536
01:18:36,179 --> 01:18:38,681
in this country
who would tell us the truth.
1537
01:18:38,848 --> 01:18:41,767
The rallying around the president,
around the flag and around the troops
1538
01:18:41,934 --> 01:18:42,894
clearly has begun.
1539
01:18:43,060 --> 01:18:44,604
And we're gonna win!
1540
01:18:44,770 --> 01:18:47,356
You have to be with the troops
to understand the adrenaline they get.
1541
01:18:47,523 --> 01:18:49,984
I just want you to know,
I think Navy SEALS rock!
1542
01:18:50,151 --> 01:18:53,196
[CNN reporter] The pictures you're seeing
are absolutely phenomenal.
1543
01:18:53,362 --> 01:18:57,867
When my country's at war,
I want my country to win.
1544
01:18:58,201 --> 01:19:01,579
Iraqi opposition has faded
in the face of American power.
1545
01:19:01,746 --> 01:19:03,456
[CNN reporter] What you're watching
1546
01:19:03,623 --> 01:19:06,125
is truly historic television
and journalism.
1547
01:19:06,292 --> 01:19:07,835
[another CNN reporter]
It was absolutely electrifying,
1548
01:19:08,002 --> 01:19:11,297
they actually had to strap me in
with my camera at the back of the plane.
1549
01:19:11,464 --> 01:19:13,841
An awesome synchronized killing machine.
1550
01:19:14,008 --> 01:19:18,387
There is an inherent bias in the coverage
of the American press in general.
1551
01:19:18,554 --> 01:19:20,973
Am I slanted and biased?
You damn well bet I am!
1552
01:19:21,140 --> 01:19:22,225
[loud firing]
1553
01:19:22,391 --> 01:19:23,809
-[explosion]
-[soldier] Yeah!
1554
01:19:23,976 --> 01:19:25,102
[soldier shouting]
1555
01:19:25,269 --> 01:19:29,982
[Michael Moore] But one story the media
wasn't covering was the personal story
1556
01:19:30,149 --> 01:19:31,275
of each and every soldier
1557
01:19:31,442 --> 01:19:34,195
who was killed in the war,
1558
01:19:34,362 --> 01:19:36,155
the government
would not allow any cameras
1559
01:19:36,322 --> 01:19:38,366
to show the coffins coming home.
1560
01:19:39,158 --> 01:19:41,118
That kind of story is a downer.
1561
01:19:41,285 --> 01:19:42,203
[classical music]
1562
01:19:42,370 --> 01:19:45,706
Especially when you're getting ready
for a party on a boat.
1563
01:19:45,873 --> 01:19:49,293
[Joey Scarbury's
"Believe it or not" playing]
1564
01:19:49,460 --> 01:19:53,631
♪ I can't believe it myself ♪
1565
01:19:54,215 --> 01:19:57,593
♪ Suddenly, I'm up on top of the world ♪
1566
01:19:58,135 --> 01:20:01,806
♪ It should have been somebody else ♪
1567
01:20:04,225 --> 01:20:08,354
♪ Believe it or not, I'm walking on air ♪
1568
01:20:08,521 --> 01:20:11,899
♪ I never thought I could feel so free ♪
1569
01:20:12,608 --> 01:20:16,487
♪ Flying away on a wing and a prayer ♪
1570
01:20:16,654 --> 01:20:19,949
♪ Who could it be? ♪
1571
01:20:20,658 --> 01:20:25,288
-♪ Believe it or not, it's just me ♪
-[cheering and clapping]
1572
01:20:28,708 --> 01:20:30,877
[George W. Bush]
My fellow Americans,
1573
01:20:31,294 --> 01:20:34,463
major combat operations
in Iraq have ended.
1574
01:20:34,922 --> 01:20:40,636
In the battle of Iraq, the United States
and our allies have prevailed.
1575
01:20:40,803 --> 01:20:43,472
[cheering and clapping]
1576
01:20:45,516 --> 01:20:46,434
[explosion]
1577
01:20:46,601 --> 01:20:49,437
[bullets and sand tingling]
1578
01:20:49,604 --> 01:20:50,771
[soldier shouting]
1579
01:20:52,523 --> 01:20:54,984
[soldier] Get out of the way!
1580
01:20:55,151 --> 01:20:56,194
Move it! Move it!
1581
01:20:56,360 --> 01:21:00,364
[general chaos and shouting]
1582
01:21:01,866 --> 01:21:03,367
Move it! Move it! Move it!
1583
01:21:03,534 --> 01:21:06,454
[indistinct shouting throughout]
1584
01:21:12,710 --> 01:21:15,379
[shouting continues]
1585
01:21:21,302 --> 01:21:24,680
[tragic tune starts]
1586
01:21:24,847 --> 01:21:27,808
[female reporter] One hundred sixty-two,
the number of troops killed by bombing.
1587
01:21:27,975 --> 01:21:29,393
[male reporter]
Two hundred and forty-four U.S. troops.
1588
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:31,812
Three hundred eighty-four U.S. troops
have lost their lives.
1589
01:21:31,979 --> 01:21:34,899
-Total killed, 484.
-Died on the line of duty, 500.
1590
01:21:35,066 --> 01:21:36,526
[another reporter] Six hundred
and thirty-one American troops.
1591
01:21:36,692 --> 01:21:38,778
[new reporter] More than 825 troops
have been killed in Iraq.
1592
01:21:38,945 --> 01:21:41,948
Largest number
of American military deaths since Vietnam.
1593
01:21:42,114 --> 01:21:45,368
There are some who feel like,
that, uh, if they...
1594
01:21:46,202 --> 01:21:50,289
attack us, that we may decide
to leave prematurely.
1595
01:21:51,749 --> 01:21:55,545
They don't understand what they're talking
about, if that's the case. Let me finish.
1596
01:21:56,128 --> 01:22:00,258
Um, there are some who,
uh, feel like that, you know,
1597
01:22:00,424 --> 01:22:03,219
the conditions are such
that they can attack us there.
1598
01:22:03,386 --> 01:22:04,929
My answer is: "Bring 'em on!"
1599
01:22:05,513 --> 01:22:07,849
[crowd shouting]
1600
01:22:08,015 --> 01:22:10,101
-[sirens ringing]
-[crowd shouting]
1601
01:22:12,603 --> 01:22:14,939
[thudding]
1602
01:22:16,274 --> 01:22:18,442
-[shouting]
-[honking]
1603
01:22:18,985 --> 01:22:20,486
The United States were just planning on,
1604
01:22:20,653 --> 01:22:21,821
just walking through here
1605
01:22:21,988 --> 01:22:24,407
like it was going to be easy and all,
1606
01:22:24,574 --> 01:22:27,577
it's not that easy
to conquer a country, is it? Huh!
1607
01:22:27,743 --> 01:22:31,747
-[tambourine]
-[crowd chanting in Arabic]
1608
01:22:31,914 --> 01:22:34,333
[rock music playing]
1609
01:22:34,500 --> 01:22:36,419
[Dan Rather]
The renewed battle for control of Iraq
1610
01:22:36,586 --> 01:22:38,379
raged for a fourth day today,
1611
01:22:38,546 --> 01:22:40,756
with street clashes
in nearly every corner of the country,
1612
01:22:42,091 --> 01:22:44,552
Iraq could become,
quote, "Another Vietnam".
1613
01:22:44,719 --> 01:22:46,596
[reporter] Officials say they see evidence
1614
01:22:46,762 --> 01:22:49,807
that Sunni and Shia extremists
might be joining forces.
1615
01:22:49,974 --> 01:22:51,934
They're not happy they're occupied.
1616
01:22:53,186 --> 01:22:55,354
But I wouldn't be happy
if I were occupied either.
1617
01:22:55,521 --> 01:22:57,815
[Bloodhound Gang's
"Fire Water Burn" playing]
1618
01:22:57,982 --> 01:23:01,235
♪ C'mon, party people
Put your hands in the air ♪
1619
01:23:01,402 --> 01:23:02,612
[cheering]
1620
01:23:02,778 --> 01:23:04,071
♪ C'mon, party people ♪
1621
01:23:04,238 --> 01:23:05,656
[screaming]
1622
01:23:05,823 --> 01:23:08,784
[news anchor] Two Japanese aid workers
and a journalist kidnapped by men
1623
01:23:08,951 --> 01:23:12,038
calling themselves
the Mujahedeen Squadrons.
1624
01:23:12,205 --> 01:23:14,123
They've threatened to burn
their hostages alive
1625
01:23:14,874 --> 01:23:18,544
if Japan does not withdraw its troops
from Iraq within three days.
1626
01:23:19,337 --> 01:23:20,713
[TV reporter] What's happened?
1627
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,132
-[masked man] Uh, oh!
-They attacked our convoy.
1628
01:23:23,299 --> 01:23:24,342
[translates into Arabic]
1629
01:23:25,051 --> 01:23:25,927
[dialogues in Arabic]
1630
01:23:26,093 --> 01:23:28,095
-[reporter] Wanna give us your name?
-Hamilton.
1631
01:23:28,262 --> 01:23:30,640
-[dialogues in Arabic]
-Thomas!
1632
01:23:30,806 --> 01:23:33,726
[news anchor] The Pentagon
might keep up to 24,000 troops
1633
01:23:33,893 --> 01:23:35,520
in combat beyond their tour.
1634
01:23:35,686 --> 01:23:38,022
I know our numbers
in the military have gone down.
1635
01:23:38,189 --> 01:23:39,607
They talk about retention.
1636
01:23:40,315 --> 01:23:41,942
[another soldier]
Yeah, I never expected
1637
01:23:42,108 --> 01:23:45,195
to be deployed this long,
I don't think anybody did.
1638
01:23:45,737 --> 01:23:48,406
I don't have any clue
as to why we're still in Iraq.
1639
01:23:48,573 --> 01:23:51,952
If Donald Rumsfeld was here,
I'd ask him for his resignation.
1640
01:23:52,118 --> 01:23:53,161
[shouting in background]
1641
01:23:53,328 --> 01:23:55,205
[Michael Moore]
With the war not going as planned
1642
01:23:55,830 --> 01:23:58,583
and the military in need
of many more troops...
1643
01:23:59,626 --> 01:24:01,837
where would they find the new recruits?
1644
01:24:02,003 --> 01:24:04,005
[news anchor]
Military experts say three times
1645
01:24:04,172 --> 01:24:07,759
the 120,000 U.S. troops now deployed
would be needed
1646
01:24:07,926 --> 01:24:10,053
to pacify and rebuild the country.
1647
01:24:10,220 --> 01:24:11,471
[car rolling]
1648
01:24:11,638 --> 01:24:14,474
[Michael Moore]
They would find them all across America
1649
01:24:15,100 --> 01:24:18,353
in the places that had been
destroyed by the economy.
1650
01:24:18,979 --> 01:24:23,525
Places where one of the only jobs
available was to join the army.
1651
01:24:23,692 --> 01:24:26,778
Places like my hometown of Flint,
Michigan.
1652
01:24:26,945 --> 01:24:28,613
[Torian Billings]
I was watching TV one day,
1653
01:24:28,780 --> 01:24:31,658
and they showed some of the buildings
and areas that had been hit by bombs
1654
01:24:31,825 --> 01:24:35,203
and things like that,
and while watching, I got to thinking,
1655
01:24:35,370 --> 01:24:39,040
parts of Flint look like that
and we ain't been in a war.
1656
01:24:39,833 --> 01:24:41,751
[Gregory Fitch]
Look at the neighborhood I live in!
1657
01:24:41,918 --> 01:24:43,211
Most of them are abandoned.
1658
01:24:43,378 --> 01:24:46,840
I mean, you know, that's not right,
you want to talk about terrorism?
1659
01:24:47,007 --> 01:24:50,051
Come right here, president Bush,
right here! Come right here!
1660
01:24:50,677 --> 01:24:53,054
He knows about this corner, I emailed him.
1661
01:24:53,763 --> 01:24:56,391
At the end of January of '04,
1662
01:24:56,558 --> 01:24:59,144
the unemployment rate in Flint
was actually 17%,
1663
01:24:59,311 --> 01:25:02,063
but you have
to take into consideration as well
1664
01:25:02,230 --> 01:25:05,192
that when your unemployment runs out,
you're no longer counted.
1665
01:25:05,358 --> 01:25:10,071
I would say that we're probably close
to at least 50%, not working
1666
01:25:10,238 --> 01:25:11,698
or under-employed.
1667
01:25:11,865 --> 01:25:14,367
Because being under-employed
is just as dangerous.
1668
01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:17,662
So my family has gone through
the welfare system,
1669
01:25:17,829 --> 01:25:19,915
when it was Jobs Central, in the mid-80s,
1670
01:25:20,081 --> 01:25:23,210
I came through the job training
partnership program,
1671
01:25:23,376 --> 01:25:24,461
here at Jobs Central,
1672
01:25:24,628 --> 01:25:26,171
and I went to a secretary school.
1673
01:25:26,922 --> 01:25:30,550
Years later, I'm the executive assistant
to the president of the agency.
1674
01:25:30,717 --> 01:25:32,093
Interesting! [laughing]
1675
01:25:32,260 --> 01:25:34,262
My mother used to tell me
all the time that:
1676
01:25:34,429 --> 01:25:36,681
"Why do you always go for the underdog?"
1677
01:25:36,848 --> 01:25:39,142
It was because the underdog is
who needed me.
1678
01:25:39,309 --> 01:25:42,604
People that don't have anything,
that's who I have to fight for.
1679
01:25:42,771 --> 01:25:44,898
And that's who I have fought for
my entire life.
1680
01:25:45,440 --> 01:25:48,276
I started taking my children,
and telling my children:
1681
01:25:48,443 --> 01:25:51,780
"The military is a good option,
I can't afford to have you go to college,
1682
01:25:51,947 --> 01:25:54,574
I cannot pay your way.
Financial aid will not help you."
1683
01:25:54,741 --> 01:25:57,410
So, I, as a mother,
started teaching my children
1684
01:25:57,577 --> 01:25:59,788
about the options
that the military could do.
1685
01:25:59,955 --> 01:26:02,958
That would take them around the world,
they would see all the things that I,
1686
01:26:03,124 --> 01:26:05,961
as a mother, could not let them see,
it would pay for their education
1687
01:26:06,127 --> 01:26:09,005
that I, as their mother,
and their father, could not pay for.
1688
01:26:09,422 --> 01:26:11,925
[Michael Moore] The military's
a good option for kids in Flint?
1689
01:26:12,092 --> 01:26:14,845
Military's an excellent option
for the people in the city of Flint.
1690
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:20,058
[Michael Moore] How many have a friend
or a family member in the service?
1691
01:26:21,935 --> 01:26:24,354
Anybody currently serving overseas?
1692
01:26:24,521 --> 01:26:26,314
-Brother of mine.
-My cousin.
1693
01:26:26,481 --> 01:26:27,732
Yeah, a cousin.
1694
01:26:27,899 --> 01:26:29,776
-[Michael Moore] Where is your brother?
-Iraq.
1695
01:26:29,943 --> 01:26:31,236
Germany!
1696
01:26:31,945 --> 01:26:35,615
My cousin got shipped off to Iraq,
like, three days ago.
1697
01:26:36,324 --> 01:26:37,450
[Michael Moore] Alright!
1698
01:26:37,868 --> 01:26:41,121
There's, like, an army
or Navy recruiter or Marines recruiter
1699
01:26:41,288 --> 01:26:43,331
up there almost every week.
1700
01:26:44,040 --> 01:26:48,169
He's in the lunch room
recruiting students from the lunch room!
1701
01:26:49,004 --> 01:26:51,339
[dramatic male voice]
There are people with a calling.
1702
01:26:51,506 --> 01:26:55,969
[heroic music]
1703
01:26:56,136 --> 01:26:57,762
Most serve one weekend a month
1704
01:26:57,929 --> 01:26:59,764
and two weeks a year.
1705
01:26:59,931 --> 01:27:01,683
[heroic music intensifies]
1706
01:27:01,850 --> 01:27:03,435
Earning money for college.
1707
01:27:03,602 --> 01:27:06,313
[throbbing of rotor blades]
1708
01:27:07,397 --> 01:27:09,232
Protecting their community.
1709
01:27:10,984 --> 01:27:14,613
In the Army National Guard, you can!
1710
01:27:14,779 --> 01:27:17,949
[music ends dramatically]
1711
01:27:18,116 --> 01:27:19,618
I'm going into the Air Force myself.
1712
01:27:19,784 --> 01:27:22,787
I'm going to take a year off,
probably after high school,
1713
01:27:22,954 --> 01:27:26,249
and then make a career, I want to be
an aircraft maintenance technician.
1714
01:27:26,416 --> 01:27:29,586
I ran into a recruiter and, uh,
there was something I noticed about it,
1715
01:27:29,753 --> 01:27:32,297
and this is kinda on another...
I noticed it was odd.
1716
01:27:32,464 --> 01:27:35,008
It was more like he was hiring me
for a job than recruiting me for the Army.
1717
01:27:35,175 --> 01:27:36,426
It was the way he approached me,
1718
01:27:36,593 --> 01:27:37,761
he approached a friend of mine.
1719
01:27:37,928 --> 01:27:40,096
I was in Borders Books and Music,
he just came up,
1720
01:27:40,263 --> 01:27:41,556
he handed us a business card.
1721
01:27:41,723 --> 01:27:43,642
They have business cards
made for the Army.
1722
01:27:43,808 --> 01:27:49,064
[funky tune]
1723
01:27:49,231 --> 01:27:51,691
[Michael Moore]
Meet Marine Staff Sergeant Dale Kortman
1724
01:27:51,858 --> 01:27:53,777
and Sergeant Raymond Plouhar.
1725
01:27:55,111 --> 01:27:58,448
They are two of the many recruiters
assigned to Flint, Michigan.
1726
01:27:59,491 --> 01:28:01,618
They're very busy these days.
1727
01:28:01,785 --> 01:28:03,787
[Plouhar]
Look it, he's running away already.
1728
01:28:03,954 --> 01:28:05,288
He's seen us coming.
1729
01:28:05,455 --> 01:28:06,706
[Kortman] Yeah!
1730
01:28:07,332 --> 01:28:09,793
What we got here?
It's like a little gangster!
1731
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:11,211
[Plouhar] Yeah!
1732
01:28:11,962 --> 01:28:14,047
[Kortman] We're heading over
to the Courtland mall right now.
1733
01:28:15,966 --> 01:28:19,135
[Michael Moore] They decided not to go
to the wealthier Genesee Valley mall
1734
01:28:19,302 --> 01:28:23,348
in the suburbs, they have a hard time
recruiting young people there.
1735
01:28:23,515 --> 01:28:26,518
Instead, they went to the other mall.
1736
01:28:26,852 --> 01:28:28,812
[Kortman]
Let's go in through Mervyns.
1737
01:28:28,979 --> 01:28:30,814
-In through Mervyns?
-And then, we'll walk--
1738
01:28:30,981 --> 01:28:33,358
-Straight down.
-Straight back and to the lunch room or--
1739
01:28:33,900 --> 01:28:35,986
[Kortman] Gents,
you know we're looking at you, right?
1740
01:28:36,152 --> 01:28:37,571
You guys ever think about joining up?
1741
01:28:37,737 --> 01:28:40,031
I thought about going to college
and playing basketball.
1742
01:28:40,198 --> 01:28:41,283
Okay, you any good?
1743
01:28:41,449 --> 01:28:42,450
-Yeah.
-Alright!
1744
01:28:42,617 --> 01:28:44,536
-Especially basketball.
-Good! You can play ball
1745
01:28:44,703 --> 01:28:46,788
for the Marine corps,
you know, travel around the world,
1746
01:28:46,955 --> 01:28:48,456
get on the Marine Corps basketball team.
1747
01:28:48,623 --> 01:28:50,375
David Robinson was
in the military as well.
1748
01:28:50,542 --> 01:28:52,752
-Oh, was he?
-So, yeah, you can definitely hook it up.
1749
01:28:52,919 --> 01:28:55,213
Right now there is somebody
out there who wants to be a Marine,
1750
01:28:55,380 --> 01:28:56,423
but has no idea how to do it.
1751
01:28:56,590 --> 01:28:59,050
-Where you work at?
-I work at KFC.
1752
01:28:59,217 --> 01:29:00,343
-Sweet!
-On Dort and Lapeer.
1753
01:29:00,510 --> 01:29:02,095
-You can hook us up with some deals!
-Yes!
1754
01:29:02,262 --> 01:29:03,430
They wait to get recruited.
1755
01:29:03,597 --> 01:29:06,474
I don't know, I was probably gonna start
to get a little career in music.
1756
01:29:06,641 --> 01:29:07,559
Career in music?
1757
01:29:07,726 --> 01:29:11,271
Maybe we can get you a career in music,
you know, let the Marines go for it.
1758
01:29:11,438 --> 01:29:12,856
I'm sure you know who Shaggy is, right?
1759
01:29:13,023 --> 01:29:14,983
-[Montrey] Yeah!
-You know anything about him?
1760
01:29:15,150 --> 01:29:17,194
-[Montrey] Yeah, he Jamaican or something.
-Yeah!
1761
01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:18,904
How about a former Marine?
1762
01:29:19,988 --> 01:29:21,114
-Huh!
-Did you know it?
1763
01:29:21,281 --> 01:29:23,617
You need to know discipline
if you're gonna get into music.
1764
01:29:23,783 --> 01:29:25,744
-Yeah, I--
-Especially discipline with the money.
1765
01:29:25,911 --> 01:29:27,495
-Right.
-When you make a million, you need
1766
01:29:27,662 --> 01:29:29,122
to manage that money,
so come in the office,
1767
01:29:29,289 --> 01:29:30,290
we can sit down and talk,
1768
01:29:30,457 --> 01:29:33,376
show you everything we know
about the Marines. Sound like a plan?
1769
01:29:33,543 --> 01:29:35,754
What do you got going on this afternoon?
How about tomorrow?
1770
01:29:35,921 --> 01:29:37,923
We say around ten o'clock Monday morning?
1771
01:29:38,089 --> 01:29:39,549
-Yeah, that sounds pretty good.
-OK.
1772
01:29:39,716 --> 01:29:40,800
You want me to come pick you up?
1773
01:29:40,967 --> 01:29:42,594
Better to get them
when they're ones and twos.
1774
01:29:42,761 --> 01:29:45,430
-Hey, pal!
-And work on them that way.
1775
01:29:45,597 --> 01:29:46,806
Ladies, you're ready to join up?
1776
01:29:46,973 --> 01:29:49,059
Green hat behind us.
1777
01:29:49,226 --> 01:29:52,854
-Looks young. He's young.
-Yeah!
1778
01:29:53,021 --> 01:29:54,689
-Yeah.
-We got two over here.
1779
01:29:54,856 --> 01:29:57,317
-Yeah.
-Right over by the red van.
1780
01:29:57,484 --> 01:29:59,611
You go that way,
I go this way, we corner him.
1781
01:29:59,778 --> 01:30:01,613
-You're in the ninth grade?
-Yes, sir!
1782
01:30:01,780 --> 01:30:04,449
Man, you look older than ninth grade!
1783
01:30:04,616 --> 01:30:06,618
-Yes, sir!
-Alright, here's my card!
1784
01:30:06,785 --> 01:30:08,912
You ever thought about being a Marine,
man?
1785
01:30:09,079 --> 01:30:11,456
I thought about it,
I got a wife and kid now, so...
1786
01:30:11,623 --> 01:30:13,083
Even more reason to join now.
1787
01:30:13,250 --> 01:30:15,210
-What I want to do, man, real quick, is...
-Yes, sir!
1788
01:30:15,377 --> 01:30:18,004
Just get some information from you,
so I can scratch you off my list
1789
01:30:18,171 --> 01:30:20,382
saying I've talked to you,
and you know, you're not interested.
1790
01:30:20,549 --> 01:30:21,508
-Is that cool?
-Yeah!
1791
01:30:21,675 --> 01:30:22,717
Alright. What's your name?
1792
01:30:22,884 --> 01:30:24,469
Your phone number?
Your address, Mario?
1793
01:30:24,636 --> 01:30:26,179
Add another one to the list.
1794
01:30:27,389 --> 01:30:30,809
[Martes] However, one would love to have
that chance to experience college life
1795
01:30:30,976 --> 01:30:33,520
you know, stuff young people can do
without having the risk
1796
01:30:33,687 --> 01:30:37,065
of dying in the process,
I guess I can say candidly.
1797
01:30:37,691 --> 01:30:39,734
-[inaudible chatter]
-[engines throbbing]
1798
01:30:39,901 --> 01:30:41,695
[soldier]
The holidays do add a little bit more...
1799
01:30:41,862 --> 01:30:43,989
friction as opposed to just another night.
1800
01:30:44,155 --> 01:30:46,575
-[alarm bleeps]
-We want to give our guys
1801
01:30:46,741 --> 01:30:48,785
a little bit of time off,
a little bit of time to relax,
1802
01:30:48,952 --> 01:30:52,622
however, we are in a combat zone,
my soldiers do recognize that fact.
1803
01:30:53,123 --> 01:30:56,084
Everybody's a little bit
nervous about it, I guess, but...
1804
01:30:56,251 --> 01:30:58,962
[another soldier] We're professionals,
we're going to take care of you.
1805
01:30:59,129 --> 01:31:00,338
[woman laughing]
1806
01:31:00,505 --> 01:31:01,673
I promise!
1807
01:31:03,758 --> 01:31:07,053
Every house here
has the right to have weapons.
1808
01:31:07,470 --> 01:31:12,350
Maximum one AK47.
We always expect the targets to be armed.
1809
01:31:12,517 --> 01:31:16,396
-[rifle clicking]
-[soldier singing to the guitar]
1810
01:31:19,232 --> 01:31:20,442
Rock 'n' roll!
1811
01:31:21,735 --> 01:31:23,236
[Velcro scratch]
1812
01:31:23,403 --> 01:31:28,450
They're fucking bolt cutters.
He's got everything to crack doors open.
1813
01:31:28,617 --> 01:31:29,784
Pops this in there.
1814
01:31:29,951 --> 01:31:30,994
♪ You better watch out ♪
1815
01:31:31,161 --> 01:31:33,455
♪ You better not cry
You better not pout ♪
1816
01:31:33,622 --> 01:31:35,457
♪ And I'm telling you why
Why? ♪
1817
01:31:35,624 --> 01:31:40,045
♪ Santa Claus is coming to town
Gather round ♪
1818
01:31:40,879 --> 01:31:42,339
♪ He's making a list ♪
1819
01:31:42,506 --> 01:31:46,718
♪ And checking it twice
Gonna find out who's naughty and nice ♪
1820
01:31:46,885 --> 01:31:51,139
♪ Santa Claus is coming to town ♪
1821
01:31:51,806 --> 01:31:57,062
♪ He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake ♪
1822
01:31:57,229 --> 01:31:59,814
♪ He knows if you've been bad or good ♪
1823
01:31:59,981 --> 01:32:02,692
♪ So be good for goodness sake ♪
1824
01:32:02,859 --> 01:32:04,486
♪ You better watch out ♪
1825
01:32:04,653 --> 01:32:07,155
[door being knocked down]
1826
01:32:07,322 --> 01:32:09,324
Hey, just hold up!
1827
01:32:12,285 --> 01:32:16,039
-[crying]
-[interpreter speaks in Arabic]
1828
01:32:16,206 --> 01:32:18,250
[soldier]
No, no, no, no, where is she going?
1829
01:32:18,416 --> 01:32:20,085
[interpreter speaks in Arabic]
1830
01:32:20,252 --> 01:32:21,837
-I'll go with her.
-Where is she going?
1831
01:32:22,003 --> 01:32:23,255
She goes to call him.
1832
01:32:23,421 --> 01:32:26,466
[soldier] She's gonna call him? No, no!
Just where, where is he at right now?
1833
01:32:26,633 --> 01:32:29,344
-[chaotic conversation]
-Not on the phone. Not on the phone.
1834
01:32:29,511 --> 01:32:31,513
Is he in the house? Is he in the house?
1835
01:32:31,680 --> 01:32:33,265
[second soldier] Man, Passerelli!
1836
01:32:33,431 --> 01:32:35,100
-Is he in the house?
-[second soldier] Passerelli!
1837
01:32:35,267 --> 01:32:37,435
[soldier]
He is! He is in the house. Where?
1838
01:32:37,602 --> 01:32:39,688
-This is it?
-[second soldier] Get on the second floor!
1839
01:32:39,855 --> 01:32:41,481
-Watch out, watch out!
-[soldier] Go, go, go!
1840
01:32:41,648 --> 01:32:42,899
Watch out, Adele, watch out!
1841
01:32:43,066 --> 01:32:44,401
[second soldier]
One coming up!
1842
01:32:44,568 --> 01:32:47,237
[women protesting]
1843
01:32:47,404 --> 01:32:49,447
That's Suheib Al Douri. Suheib Al Douri?
1844
01:32:49,614 --> 01:32:50,907
[speaks in Arabic]
1845
01:32:51,074 --> 01:32:53,410
-What's your name?
-Suheib, Suheib.
1846
01:32:53,577 --> 01:32:55,370
[women talking in background]
1847
01:32:55,537 --> 01:32:57,122
-This is Suheib?
-[Adele] Yeah!
1848
01:32:57,289 --> 01:32:59,958
[Arabic chatter]
1849
01:33:00,125 --> 01:33:03,587
[woman in Arabic]
What has he done? He's just a student!
1850
01:33:03,753 --> 01:33:06,256
[soldier] Tell them to calm down!
Tell them to calm down.
1851
01:33:06,423 --> 01:33:07,883
[second soldier]
Alright, going to the roof!
1852
01:33:08,049 --> 01:33:09,301
[soldier] You will not be harmed!
1853
01:33:09,467 --> 01:33:12,846
[chaotic exchanges in English and Arabic]
1854
01:33:13,013 --> 01:33:15,265
[soldier] We appreciate your conversation.
This is the target!
1855
01:33:15,432 --> 01:33:16,766
So he's about to bring him out!
1856
01:33:16,933 --> 01:33:18,602
[third soldier]
Alright, move, go!
1857
01:33:18,768 --> 01:33:20,437
[soldier in base]
As you go back to the old saying:
1858
01:33:20,604 --> 01:33:22,314
"Win the hearts and minds of the people."
1859
01:33:22,480 --> 01:33:26,776
That's our job.
We have to bring the...
1860
01:33:26,943 --> 01:33:30,322
the ideal of democracy
and freedom to the country
1861
01:33:30,488 --> 01:33:33,992
and show them that the American people
are not here to rule Iraq.
1862
01:33:34,743 --> 01:33:37,996
[women cry in Arabic]
1863
01:33:38,163 --> 01:33:40,457
[Adele, in Arabic] Don't be afraid.
He's not going to hit you.
1864
01:33:41,208 --> 01:33:42,417
What did he do?
1865
01:33:42,584 --> 01:33:44,794
[woman cries in Arabic]
1866
01:33:44,961 --> 01:33:46,838
[Adele] Why don't you tell us?
God keep you, what did he do?
1867
01:33:47,005 --> 01:33:48,215
[women cry in Arabic]
1868
01:33:48,381 --> 01:33:50,634
[soldier]
Hey! Tell them to be quiet.
1869
01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:52,802
[Adele speaks in Arabic]
1870
01:33:53,470 --> 01:33:56,431
I start doing evidence turn in,
that process takes about three hours, so,
1871
01:33:57,557 --> 01:34:01,686
that's going to be it for the night
and that concludes Christmas Eve.
1872
01:34:01,853 --> 01:34:05,357
["Santa Claus is coming to Town" playing]
1873
01:34:05,732 --> 01:34:08,985
Merry Christmas, PRT, Merry Christmas!
Santa came to Iraq just for you guys.
1874
01:34:09,152 --> 01:34:11,321
[soldier] Trying to keep
the skies clear for you, Santa.
1875
01:34:11,488 --> 01:34:14,032
[birds chirping in the distance]
1876
01:34:14,199 --> 01:34:16,243
[Michael Moore]
You consider yourself a proud American?
1877
01:34:16,409 --> 01:34:18,870
[Lila Lipscomb] Absolutely.
I'm an extremely proud American.
1878
01:34:19,037 --> 01:34:22,207
I think I'm probably more proud
than the average Joe.
1879
01:34:22,374 --> 01:34:26,086
When I put my flag out,
I can't allow it to touch the ground
1880
01:34:26,253 --> 01:34:29,798
because I know the lives that were lost
and the blood that was shed,
1881
01:34:29,965 --> 01:34:31,675
so that I could be here and have a flag.
1882
01:34:31,842 --> 01:34:34,553
-[M. Moore] How often do you put it out?
-[Lila Lipscomb] Every single day.
1883
01:34:34,719 --> 01:34:38,807
Every single day! I started
when my daughter was in Desert Storm.
1884
01:34:38,974 --> 01:34:44,020
I had the same flag flying on my front
porch and the same yellow ribbons,
1885
01:34:44,187 --> 01:34:47,314
praying and hoping every single day
that my child would come home safe,
1886
01:34:47,481 --> 01:34:49,400
and that everybody's child
would come home safe.
1887
01:34:49,567 --> 01:34:51,068
-And she did?
-And she did!
1888
01:34:51,235 --> 01:34:53,571
Do you have other family members
that have been in the military?
1889
01:34:53,737 --> 01:34:58,826
Absolutely.
Uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers, father.
1890
01:34:58,993 --> 01:35:00,786
-Very strong military family.
-Very strong!
1891
01:35:00,953 --> 01:35:02,204
My family was...
1892
01:35:02,371 --> 01:35:06,125
My family is what I consider
part of the backbone of America.
1893
01:35:06,417 --> 01:35:08,627
It's families like mine,
and it's not just my family,
1894
01:35:08,794 --> 01:35:11,630
there's hundreds of families,
millions of families out here,
1895
01:35:11,797 --> 01:35:14,091
that this country
was founded on their backs.
1896
01:35:14,258 --> 01:35:17,178
I have been known to be
a conservative Democrat.
1897
01:35:17,344 --> 01:35:19,847
-Yeah, yeah.
-That's what you consider yourself, yeah?
1898
01:35:20,014 --> 01:35:22,683
-Yeah, it's a great country.
-It's a great country!
1899
01:35:23,642 --> 01:35:26,854
The cross that I choose to wear,
if you notice, it's a multicultural,
1900
01:35:27,021 --> 01:35:28,647
a multicolored cross,
1901
01:35:28,814 --> 01:35:31,984
that's because I believe that all
God's people come in many colors.
1902
01:35:32,151 --> 01:35:34,278
And my family itself is multicultural.
1903
01:35:34,445 --> 01:35:38,157
[Michael Moore] You have a daughter
who went into the military.
1904
01:35:38,324 --> 01:35:40,659
And your first born son,
uh, in the military!
1905
01:35:40,826 --> 01:35:44,371
That's, uh, you know,
that's quite a gift to the country.
1906
01:35:44,538 --> 01:35:46,207
-Exactly.
-From your family!
1907
01:35:46,373 --> 01:35:49,043
So, having a son in the Army,
pretty proud thing.
1908
01:35:49,210 --> 01:35:52,254
[Lila Lipscomb]
Oh, you know what? He made it!
1909
01:35:52,963 --> 01:35:55,174
[Michael Moore]
What was your reaction to protestors
1910
01:35:55,341 --> 01:35:58,093
during, say, the Gulf War or Vietnam?
1911
01:35:58,260 --> 01:36:01,263
I always hated the protestors.
I always hated the protestors.
1912
01:36:01,430 --> 01:36:03,474
It was just a slap in my face.
1913
01:36:03,974 --> 01:36:05,351
It was just like...
1914
01:36:05,768 --> 01:36:07,811
They were dishonoring my son.
1915
01:36:07,978 --> 01:36:10,147
And I burned in my soul
1916
01:36:10,314 --> 01:36:12,149
to tell them: "You don't understand.
1917
01:36:12,316 --> 01:36:14,026
They're not there
because they wanna be there."
1918
01:36:14,193 --> 01:36:15,945
But then I came to understand
1919
01:36:16,111 --> 01:36:18,989
that they weren't protesting the men
and the women that were there,
1920
01:36:19,156 --> 01:36:21,867
they were protesting
the concept of the war.
1921
01:36:22,326 --> 01:36:24,912
I know I'm a soldier
and I'm here to do a job and,
1922
01:36:26,121 --> 01:36:28,249
I've been a soldier for a while.
1923
01:36:30,084 --> 01:36:35,214
Once you have to go and do your job
and you see the things that you see...
1924
01:36:37,424 --> 01:36:40,177
I was saying that
there's some disillusionment in that.
1925
01:36:40,344 --> 01:36:42,930
Battalion commander fully expects us
1926
01:36:43,097 --> 01:36:49,562
to be attacked in some type of way
before we get there.
1927
01:36:51,230 --> 01:36:54,108
I know that so far it's been pretty calm,
1928
01:36:54,275 --> 01:36:55,568
not much has happened,
1929
01:36:55,734 --> 01:37:00,030
but, be aware that it can
and it probably will.
1930
01:37:00,197 --> 01:37:04,743
[soldiers chatting in background]
1931
01:37:04,910 --> 01:37:07,830
They're beginning to organize themselves,
just in neighborhoods.
1932
01:37:07,997 --> 01:37:11,584
The kids get together a lot,
well, can't say "kids", but, uh...
1933
01:37:11,750 --> 01:37:15,588
guys about 17, 18, starting to come
together and they hate us.
1934
01:37:15,754 --> 01:37:17,423
Just why? I'm not really sure.
1935
01:37:17,590 --> 01:37:20,301
[engines throbbing]
1936
01:37:20,467 --> 01:37:23,762
[Michael Moore]
Immoral behavior breeds immoral behavior.
1937
01:37:25,181 --> 01:37:27,600
When a president commits the immoral act
1938
01:37:27,766 --> 01:37:31,562
of sending otherwise good kids to war,
based on a lie,
1939
01:37:32,188 --> 01:37:33,814
this is what you get.
1940
01:37:33,981 --> 01:37:35,858
[soldier] Hey, are you ticklish?
1941
01:37:36,025 --> 01:37:38,569
[music in the distance]
1942
01:37:40,112 --> 01:37:41,614
[laughing and cheering]
1943
01:37:41,780 --> 01:37:43,866
[soldier on loudspeaker]
Ali Baba still has a hard-on!
1944
01:37:44,033 --> 01:37:46,702
[all laugh]
1945
01:37:46,869 --> 01:37:49,330
Don't tell me!
Why are you touching someone else's?
1946
01:37:49,496 --> 01:37:50,915
[all laugh]
1947
01:37:51,081 --> 01:37:52,208
He touched his dick!
1948
01:37:52,374 --> 01:37:54,460
[indistinct conversations]
1949
01:37:54,627 --> 01:37:58,255
-[conversations]
-[cameras clicking]
1950
01:37:58,756 --> 01:38:01,967
To have these people shoot at us,
kill us, blow us up,
1951
01:38:02,134 --> 01:38:06,055
whatever means they can,
and I don't understand it,
1952
01:38:06,222 --> 01:38:10,476
we're trying to help these people
and it seems they don't want our help.
1953
01:38:10,643 --> 01:38:13,020
"Get out of here", but the minute
something goes wrong with them,
1954
01:38:13,187 --> 01:38:15,022
"Oh, why weren't you here?
Why didn't you do this?"
1955
01:38:15,189 --> 01:38:17,691
You know, it's...
I hate this country.
1956
01:38:18,817 --> 01:38:20,194
You know, you, you...
1957
01:38:20,361 --> 01:38:27,368
I feel that a part of your soul...
is destroyed in taking another life.
1958
01:38:28,619 --> 01:38:31,372
And, yes, that statement is very true,
you...
1959
01:38:32,456 --> 01:38:35,251
cannot kill someone
without killing a part of yourself.
1960
01:38:36,210 --> 01:38:38,420
[Michael Moore] If you get called up,
would you go back to Iraq?
1961
01:38:38,587 --> 01:38:39,672
No.
1962
01:38:39,839 --> 01:38:41,131
-You're not?
-No!
1963
01:38:41,590 --> 01:38:44,927
[Michael Moore] What repercussions
do you face, if you don't?
1964
01:38:45,094 --> 01:38:48,264
It's possible jail time,
that's one possibility.
1965
01:38:48,430 --> 01:38:49,557
Are you willing to risk that?
1966
01:38:49,723 --> 01:38:52,142
Yes. Yes, I...
1967
01:38:53,102 --> 01:38:55,771
I will not let my person...
1968
01:38:58,190 --> 01:39:00,901
I will not let anyone
1969
01:39:01,569 --> 01:39:04,989
send me back over there
to kill other poor people.
1970
01:39:05,155 --> 01:39:10,119
especially when they pose no threat
to me and my country.
1971
01:39:14,957 --> 01:39:16,208
I won't do it.
1972
01:39:17,585 --> 01:39:21,547
This is an impressive crowd:
the haves, and the have-mores.
1973
01:39:21,714 --> 01:39:24,508
[crowd laughing]
1974
01:39:24,675 --> 01:39:26,719
Some people call you the elite.
1975
01:39:27,136 --> 01:39:28,387
I call you my base.
1976
01:39:28,554 --> 01:39:32,516
[crowd laughing and clapping]
1977
01:39:32,683 --> 01:39:35,811
[crowd cheering and whistling]
1978
01:39:35,978 --> 01:39:36,979
[military music]
1979
01:39:37,146 --> 01:39:39,690
[Michael Moore] While Bush
was busy taking care of his base
1980
01:39:39,857 --> 01:39:42,026
and professing his love for our troops,
1981
01:39:42,193 --> 01:39:45,529
he proposed cutting
combat soldiers' pay by 33%.
1982
01:39:45,696 --> 01:39:46,697
[clapping]
1983
01:39:46,864 --> 01:39:49,241
And assistance to their families by 60%.
1984
01:39:50,034 --> 01:39:52,620
He opposed giving veterans
a billion dollars more
1985
01:39:52,786 --> 01:39:54,163
in healthcare benefits.
1986
01:39:54,914 --> 01:39:57,625
And he supported
closing veteran hospitals.
1987
01:39:58,083 --> 01:40:00,794
He tried to double
the prescription drug costs for veterans
1988
01:40:01,670 --> 01:40:04,715
and opposed full benefits
for part-time reservists.
1989
01:40:04,882 --> 01:40:06,509
[crowds applauding]
1990
01:40:06,675 --> 01:40:11,263
And when staff Sergeant Brett Petriken
from Flint was killed in Iraq on May 26,
1991
01:40:11,430 --> 01:40:14,016
the Army sent
his last paycheck to his family,
1992
01:40:14,183 --> 01:40:17,811
but they docked him for the last five days
of the month that he didn't work
1993
01:40:17,978 --> 01:40:19,355
because he was dead.
1994
01:40:21,440 --> 01:40:24,527
They say they're not going to leave
any veteran behind, but they're leaving
1995
01:40:24,693 --> 01:40:27,029
all kinds of veterans behind.
1996
01:40:27,196 --> 01:40:30,824
To say that we're forgotten, no,
I know we're not forgotten, but missed?
1997
01:40:30,991 --> 01:40:34,495
Yes. Yes. You know, there are
a lot of soldiers that have been missed,
1998
01:40:34,662 --> 01:40:36,205
that have been skipped over,
1999
01:40:36,372 --> 01:40:38,916
that didn't get the proper coverage
that they deserved.
2000
01:40:39,083 --> 01:40:42,127
They have a death toll, but they're not
showing the amount of people
2001
01:40:42,294 --> 01:40:44,839
that have been injured or are amputated
because of their injuries, you know.
2002
01:40:45,589 --> 01:40:47,967
-Like, I still feel like I have hands.
-[Brian Williams] Yeah!
2003
01:40:48,133 --> 01:40:52,471
And the pain is like,
my hands are being crushed in a vice.
2004
01:40:52,638 --> 01:40:56,433
But they do a lot to help it,
and they take a lot of the edge off it,
2005
01:40:56,600 --> 01:40:59,353
and it makes it
a lot more tolerable and...
2006
01:40:59,979 --> 01:41:02,648
[soldier] I was injured in late April,
on patrol in Baghdad.
2007
01:41:03,566 --> 01:41:06,819
Um... [sniffles]
a couple of guys came out.
2008
01:41:07,570 --> 01:41:09,154
Ambushed us.
2009
01:41:09,321 --> 01:41:13,868
I've got nerve damage and stuff like that,
and I've got a lot of pain,
2010
01:41:14,034 --> 01:41:15,786
I'm constantly in pain.
2011
01:41:16,453 --> 01:41:22,001
Um, I take a lot of morphine
to help with that stuff.
2012
01:41:23,460 --> 01:41:27,423
I'm doing... you know, just readjusting,
2013
01:41:27,590 --> 01:41:31,135
getting life back on track.
2014
01:41:31,302 --> 01:41:32,803
You know what I'm saying?
2015
01:41:32,970 --> 01:41:37,057
Yes. I'm not gonna do
what it is that I did before.
2016
01:41:37,641 --> 01:41:41,437
Um, I... I was a Republican
for quite a few years.
2017
01:41:41,604 --> 01:41:43,272
And, um...
2018
01:41:44,231 --> 01:41:46,692
For some reason, they...
2019
01:41:49,820 --> 01:41:52,364
They conduct business
in a very dishonest way.
2020
01:41:52,531 --> 01:41:53,824
I'm gonna be incredibly active
2021
01:41:53,991 --> 01:41:57,578
in the Democratic party
down where I live once I get out.
2022
01:41:57,745 --> 01:42:03,459
So, I'm gonna definitely do my best
to ensure that the Democrats win control.
2023
01:42:04,293 --> 01:42:07,963
Iraq, Baghdad, I didn't know
anything of those things.
2024
01:42:09,507 --> 01:42:12,760
And we were in the hallway
in the upstairs of our house,
2025
01:42:12,927 --> 01:42:15,179
and he was crying,
2026
01:42:15,346 --> 01:42:20,434
he said that he was really scared
and he didn't want to have to go to Iraq.
2027
01:42:20,601 --> 01:42:24,146
We were able to have a whole conversation
about sometimes some fear is healthy,
2028
01:42:24,313 --> 01:42:26,232
because it keeps our senses about us.
2029
01:42:26,398 --> 01:42:29,485
And that's when he told me that
he had not told anybody else but he knew
2030
01:42:29,652 --> 01:42:31,111
he was going to Baghdad.
2031
01:42:31,278 --> 01:42:33,239
-[Michael Moore] Wow!
-[baby crying]
2032
01:42:33,781 --> 01:42:37,326
As everybody,
we were glued to the TV.
2033
01:42:37,785 --> 01:42:41,247
Just glued, completely glued
to the television,
2034
01:42:41,413 --> 01:42:42,831
in hopes of seeing a glimpse of him.
2035
01:42:42,998 --> 01:42:45,084
"Can't you please go
to where the helicopters are,
2036
01:42:45,251 --> 01:42:47,461
can't you please let us see him?"
2037
01:42:47,628 --> 01:42:50,297
Then, that night,
it was about ten something,
2038
01:42:50,464 --> 01:42:52,842
I went upstairs to the bedroom,
2039
01:42:53,008 --> 01:42:56,679
I was lying in bed and I was flipping
the channels, all I heard was:
2040
01:42:56,846 --> 01:42:59,223
"Black Hawk down, South Central Iraq."
2041
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:03,853
All I can tell you at this hour is that
last night the Army did indeed lose
2042
01:43:04,019 --> 01:43:05,980
a Black Hawk helicopter.
2043
01:43:06,146 --> 01:43:08,482
We are being told
by officers on the ground
2044
01:43:08,649 --> 01:43:11,360
that there were six occupants
inside the Black Hawk.
2045
01:43:11,527 --> 01:43:14,029
[Lila Lipscomb] The next morning,
I got up and I said:
2046
01:43:14,196 --> 01:43:16,156
"You push those thoughts
out of your mind!
2047
01:43:16,323 --> 01:43:18,242
OK Jesus, I need you to come in,
2048
01:43:18,409 --> 01:43:20,369
I need you Jesus,
you gotta help me through this!"
2049
01:43:20,953 --> 01:43:22,204
The army called me,
2050
01:43:22,371 --> 01:43:26,876
I remember getting on the phone
and him asking me if I was Lila Lipscomb.
2051
01:43:27,042 --> 01:43:30,421
I said yes and he said:
"Mother of Sergeant Michael Pedersen?"
2052
01:43:32,590 --> 01:43:34,967
[voice shaking]
And I remember dropping the telephone.
2053
01:43:37,636 --> 01:43:38,637
[sniffling]
2054
01:43:38,804 --> 01:43:41,765
And all I can honestly say
that I remember is:
2055
01:43:41,932 --> 01:43:42,850
"Ma'am!
2056
01:43:43,017 --> 01:43:48,022
The United States Army, the Secretary
of Defense regretfully informs you..."
2057
01:43:50,608 --> 01:43:51,525
That's all I know.
2058
01:43:53,944 --> 01:43:57,239
The grief grabbed me so hard
2059
01:43:57,907 --> 01:44:00,451
that I literally fell on the floor.
2060
01:44:00,618 --> 01:44:03,621
And I was alone,
I didn't have anybody to pick me up.
2061
01:44:04,121 --> 01:44:07,666
So I literally crawled over to my desk,
2062
01:44:08,042 --> 01:44:11,587
and was hanging on,
and I remember screaming:
2063
01:44:12,129 --> 01:44:16,217
"Why does it have to be Michael?
Why did you have to take my son?
2064
01:44:16,717 --> 01:44:21,388
Why is it my son that you had to take?
He didn't do anything!
2065
01:44:21,847 --> 01:44:26,727
He wasn't a bad guy, he was a good guy,
why did you have to take my son?"
2066
01:44:26,894 --> 01:44:28,729
Uh, I, erm...
2067
01:44:28,896 --> 01:44:30,898
[stutters]
2068
01:44:31,065 --> 01:44:33,901
I can't imagine what it must be like
to lose a son or a daughter,
2069
01:44:34,068 --> 01:44:38,489
or a husband or a wife,
and I... it pains me.
2070
01:44:39,490 --> 01:44:40,741
[paper crumpling]
2071
01:44:40,908 --> 01:44:42,535
[Michael Moore]
You have his last letter?
2072
01:44:43,118 --> 01:44:44,828
And it was mailed March 16th
2073
01:44:45,621 --> 01:44:48,958
but I didn't get it until
about a week before he was killed.
2074
01:44:50,209 --> 01:44:55,256
"Hello. Hey mama, well,
sorry I haven't been able to call,
2075
01:44:55,422 --> 01:44:59,802
they took the phones seven days ago,
I got the letter and box,
2076
01:44:59,969 --> 01:45:03,097
that is so cool,
your first grandson came...
2077
01:45:03,264 --> 01:45:05,057
[heavy breathing]
2078
01:45:05,224 --> 01:45:07,852
... the same day your oldest son did.
2079
01:45:08,018 --> 01:45:10,396
How is everyone? I'm doing fine.
2080
01:45:10,563 --> 01:45:14,733
We are just out here in the sand
and windstorms, waiting.
2081
01:45:14,900 --> 01:45:20,656
What in the world is wrong with George
'trying to be like his dad' Bush?
2082
01:45:20,823 --> 01:45:23,701
He got us out here for nothing whatsoever.
2083
01:45:23,868 --> 01:45:26,662
I am so furious right now, Mama.
2084
01:45:27,872 --> 01:45:32,543
I really hope they do not
re-elect that fool, honestly.
2085
01:45:33,210 --> 01:45:36,005
I am in good spirits and I am doing OK.
2086
01:45:36,172 --> 01:45:37,882
I really miss you guys.
2087
01:45:38,048 --> 01:45:39,175
Thanks for the Bible...
2088
01:45:39,341 --> 01:45:41,594
[repressing tears]
2089
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:44,263
... and books, and candy.
2090
01:45:44,430 --> 01:45:47,266
[voice shaking] I really look forward
to letters from you guys.
2091
01:45:48,851 --> 01:45:50,769
Well, tell all the family hello
2092
01:45:51,395 --> 01:45:53,146
and that I am doing fine.
2093
01:45:53,313 --> 01:45:56,733
We don't expect
anything to happen any time soon.
2094
01:45:56,900 --> 01:46:00,778
I cannot wait to get home
and get back to my life.
2095
01:46:01,279 --> 01:46:03,156
Tell Sputnik congrats.
2096
01:46:03,531 --> 01:46:06,618
And I'll see my first nephew soon,
2097
01:46:07,994 --> 01:46:10,079
as soon as I get back to the States.
2098
01:46:10,747 --> 01:46:13,041
Hope you guys are doing OK
2099
01:46:13,208 --> 01:46:15,168
and keep sending the mail.
2100
01:46:15,335 --> 01:46:18,046
It makes getting through the days easier.
2101
01:46:20,048 --> 01:46:21,132
[gulping]
2102
01:46:21,299 --> 01:46:27,096
Well, I am on my way to bed,
so I will write you guys soon.
2103
01:46:28,181 --> 01:46:31,476
[sobbing]
I love and miss all of you guys."
2104
01:46:33,186 --> 01:46:35,146
-"Love, Michael."
-[paper flapping]
2105
01:46:44,989 --> 01:46:46,824
I want him to be alive,
2106
01:46:47,534 --> 01:46:49,577
and I can't make him alive.
2107
01:46:49,744 --> 01:46:51,079
[sniffling]
2108
01:46:51,246 --> 01:46:53,373
But your flesh just aches.
2109
01:46:54,374 --> 01:46:56,835
You want your child, it's out of sync.
2110
01:46:57,001 --> 01:47:00,839
A parent is not supposed
to bury their child.
2111
01:47:01,005 --> 01:47:03,591
[Lila sobbing]
2112
01:47:03,758 --> 01:47:07,637
[Howard Lipscomb]
I feel, I... I... I feel sad for my family
2113
01:47:07,804 --> 01:47:10,014
because we lost our son.
2114
01:47:11,558 --> 01:47:12,642
But...
2115
01:47:13,518 --> 01:47:16,646
I really feel sorry
for the other families
2116
01:47:16,813 --> 01:47:21,067
that is losing their kids as we speak.
2117
01:47:24,070 --> 01:47:25,613
And for what?
2118
01:47:25,780 --> 01:47:27,365
I don't...
2119
01:47:29,075 --> 01:47:33,204
That's the, I guess, sickening part.
For what?
2120
01:47:33,955 --> 01:47:35,957
You've heard a lot
about Halliburton lately.
2121
01:47:36,124 --> 01:47:41,087
Criticism is okay. We can take it.
Criticism is not failure.
2122
01:47:41,254 --> 01:47:43,423
Our employees are doing a great job.
2123
01:47:43,590 --> 01:47:46,718
We're feeding the soldiers,
we're rebuilding Iraq.
2124
01:47:46,885 --> 01:47:50,013
Will things go wrong?
Sure they will, it's a war zone.
2125
01:47:50,180 --> 01:47:52,807
We're serving the troops
because of what we know,
2126
01:47:52,974 --> 01:47:54,267
not who we know.
2127
01:47:54,434 --> 01:47:57,520
Well, let me tell you about Halliburton,
the company I ran.
2128
01:47:57,687 --> 01:47:59,522
I'm very proud of what I did
at Halliburton,
2129
01:47:59,689 --> 01:48:02,567
the people of Halliburton are very proud
of what they've accomplished
2130
01:48:02,734 --> 01:48:04,277
and I frankly
2131
01:48:04,777 --> 01:48:08,114
don't feel any need to apologize
for the way I've spent my time
2132
01:48:08,281 --> 01:48:11,075
over the last five years
as the C.E.O. and Chairman
2133
01:48:11,242 --> 01:48:12,952
of a major American corporation,
a good one.
2134
01:48:13,119 --> 01:48:16,122
This is also an attempt
to divert attention away from the fact
2135
01:48:16,289 --> 01:48:17,749
they have no energy policy.
2136
01:48:18,917 --> 01:48:22,003
And as the Secretary of Energy said,
we were caught unawares!
2137
01:48:22,170 --> 01:48:24,297
[Caribbean music]
2138
01:48:24,464 --> 01:48:26,591
[Michael Moore]
In the middle of the war, Microsoft,
2139
01:48:26,758 --> 01:48:30,053
DHL and other corporations
invited Halliburton
2140
01:48:30,220 --> 01:48:31,721
to a conference
2141
01:48:31,888 --> 01:48:34,766
to figure out how much money
could be made in Iraq.
2142
01:48:36,351 --> 01:48:37,602
[Michael Mele]
Having worked
2143
01:48:37,769 --> 01:48:44,692
this, uh... effort
even since before the invasion,
2144
01:48:44,859 --> 01:48:47,153
the, uh, liberation of Iraq started.
2145
01:48:47,320 --> 01:48:52,158
You, industry, are definitely
a vital part of that effort.
2146
01:48:52,325 --> 01:48:55,411
We appreciate your interest in this.
We need you.
2147
01:48:55,578 --> 01:48:58,456
Now, lots of you are
small businesses and you are struggling.
2148
01:48:58,623 --> 01:49:00,458
How do we get a piece of this big action?
2149
01:49:00,625 --> 01:49:02,877
All of you, the big guys,
are going to get it and the rest of us
2150
01:49:03,044 --> 01:49:05,922
that have subcontracting capability,
or no, none at all.
2151
01:49:06,089 --> 01:49:08,550
U.S.T.V.A. is for you.
2152
01:49:08,716 --> 01:49:10,885
Once that oil start flowing
and money coming,
2153
01:49:11,052 --> 01:49:12,846
it's going to be lots of money,
2154
01:49:13,012 --> 01:49:15,139
it's the second largest oil reserve
in the world.
2155
01:49:15,306 --> 01:49:16,975
There's no question
about how much money is there.
2156
01:49:17,141 --> 01:49:21,604
I've been getting complaints
from Iraqi firms and from American firms,
2157
01:49:21,771 --> 01:49:24,691
that the lack of transparency,
the corruption...
2158
01:49:24,858 --> 01:49:27,277
I think the profits
that American companies are making,
2159
01:49:27,443 --> 01:49:29,112
the majors, the main companies,
2160
01:49:29,279 --> 01:49:31,239
are so overwhelming,
2161
01:49:31,406 --> 01:49:34,784
I mean, like when you have a line item
for a million dollars
2162
01:49:34,951 --> 01:49:38,246
and you subcontract it out
for 50 or 60 or 70 thousand dollars,
2163
01:49:38,413 --> 01:49:39,622
that's a huge profit,
2164
01:49:39,789 --> 01:49:42,000
and it's the American taxpayer
that's going to pay for that.
2165
01:49:42,166 --> 01:49:43,877
And it's going to get better!
2166
01:49:44,043 --> 01:49:47,547
Start building relationships
because it's going to get much better
2167
01:49:47,714 --> 01:49:49,632
as the oil flows
and their budget increase.
2168
01:49:49,799 --> 01:49:53,136
The good news is, whatever it costs,
the government will pay you.
2169
01:49:53,636 --> 01:49:56,139
War is always good for certain companies
2170
01:49:56,306 --> 01:49:58,516
that are in the war,
the business of war.
2171
01:49:58,683 --> 01:50:01,352
[chatter]
2172
01:50:01,519 --> 01:50:04,480
We're very proud of the work we're doing
in supporting the U.S. government
2173
01:50:04,647 --> 01:50:05,940
and the U.S. military,
2174
01:50:06,107 --> 01:50:08,610
and the real heroes of the campaign,
the real heroes of the reconstruction,
2175
01:50:08,776 --> 01:50:11,654
are the men and women
of the U.S. Armed Forces,
2176
01:50:11,821 --> 01:50:14,240
and we're proud of being any part of that
that we can in supporting them.
2177
01:50:14,741 --> 01:50:17,243
[voice over]
Halliburton delivers hot meals, supplies,
2178
01:50:17,785 --> 01:50:21,289
clean clothing
and communications to our soldiers.
2179
01:50:21,456 --> 01:50:25,210
So they can be a little closer to home.
2180
01:50:25,376 --> 01:50:28,463
[emotional]
It's a girl? It's a girl!
2181
01:50:28,630 --> 01:50:29,839
[all cheer and laugh]
2182
01:50:30,006 --> 01:50:31,633
[voice over]
Proud to serve our troops.
2183
01:50:31,799 --> 01:50:35,386
I just read in the paper
how Halliburton got another contract.
2184
01:50:35,553 --> 01:50:38,473
-Halliburton got another contract!
-That's right!
2185
01:50:38,640 --> 01:50:41,309
Which is not being...
2186
01:50:42,477 --> 01:50:43,853
contested at all!
2187
01:50:44,020 --> 01:50:45,313
[Evelyn]
Because nobody knows!
2188
01:50:45,480 --> 01:50:47,815
Well, it's in the papers,
so somebody knows!
2189
01:50:48,149 --> 01:50:52,153
But that's after it happens,
it's after the fact, it's too late.
2190
01:50:52,320 --> 01:50:53,363
[throbbing of machinery]
2191
01:50:53,530 --> 01:50:57,325
[TV reporter] The United States is now
a major player in the Iraqi oil business.
2192
01:50:57,492 --> 01:50:59,577
American troops guard the oil fields
2193
01:50:59,744 --> 01:51:02,789
as Texas oil workers
assess their potential.
2194
01:51:02,956 --> 01:51:04,958
[worker]
It's a safe environment to work in.
2195
01:51:05,500 --> 01:51:08,461
We don't feel any risk,
we feel we're being well protected here,
2196
01:51:08,628 --> 01:51:09,629
or we wouldn't be here.
2197
01:51:09,796 --> 01:51:15,552
It's no secret, I mean, I make,
between 2,000 and 3,000 a month.
2198
01:51:15,718 --> 01:51:17,679
A Halliburton employee
out here driving a bus
2199
01:51:17,846 --> 01:51:20,348
can make all between
8,000 and 10,000 a month,
2200
01:51:20,515 --> 01:51:23,309
explain that one to me,
for 40 hours a week,
2201
01:51:23,476 --> 01:51:25,395
driving the same
two and a half mile route.
2202
01:51:25,562 --> 01:51:28,982
Go figure! Where do you...
Where's the justification in that?
2203
01:51:29,148 --> 01:51:32,485
There's no other single area
of the world today
2204
01:51:32,652 --> 01:51:36,239
with the opportunity for business,
new business,
2205
01:51:36,406 --> 01:51:39,325
similar to the opportunity
that's available today in Iraq.
2206
01:51:39,742 --> 01:51:42,078
The president went in and did what he did
2207
01:51:42,245 --> 01:51:44,372
and we're all supporting him
and our troops
2208
01:51:44,539 --> 01:51:49,419
and we wanna make sure
that the efforts and the lost lives and...
2209
01:51:49,586 --> 01:51:51,296
It wasn't for no reason.
2210
01:51:51,462 --> 01:51:53,715
If it wasn't for the oil,
no one would be there.
2211
01:51:53,882 --> 01:51:55,341
Nobody would worry about it.
2212
01:51:55,508 --> 01:51:57,177
Unfortunately,
at least for the near term,
2213
01:51:57,343 --> 01:52:02,640
we think it's going to be a good situation
and a dangerous situation.
2214
01:52:02,807 --> 01:52:05,268
Good for business, bad for the people.
2215
01:52:05,435 --> 01:52:08,938
[Bertha] Today, on the news,
Rumsfeld was saying...
2216
01:52:09,105 --> 01:52:11,774
And Wolf? Wolfowitz!
2217
01:52:11,941 --> 01:52:16,905
They were saying: "Oh, the Iraqi people
are much, much better off.
2218
01:52:17,071 --> 01:52:20,158
Isn't it better
that we got rid of Saddam
2219
01:52:20,325 --> 01:52:24,078
and now the Iraqi people can do
what they want to do
2220
01:52:24,245 --> 01:52:26,080
and really be free?"
2221
01:52:26,497 --> 01:52:29,209
Will they ever be free?
No, they'll not be free.
2222
01:52:29,375 --> 01:52:32,420
And where are the weapons
of mass destruction?
2223
01:52:32,587 --> 01:52:35,381
It was a... We were duped.
We were really duped.
2224
01:52:35,548 --> 01:52:40,512
And these poor people, the young men
and women who are being killed there,
2225
01:52:40,678 --> 01:52:43,097
it's unnecessary.
I... That's it!
2226
01:52:43,264 --> 01:52:44,807
-No more.
-[Evelyn] That's a disgrace.
2227
01:52:44,974 --> 01:52:48,770
They died in a just cause
for defending freedom
2228
01:52:48,937 --> 01:52:51,356
and they will not have died in vain.
2229
01:52:51,523 --> 01:52:57,111
[crowd cheering and applauding]
2230
01:53:00,949 --> 01:53:03,034
[cheering and clapping fade away]
2231
01:53:03,201 --> 01:53:04,661
[Michael Moore]
Lila had called to tell me
2232
01:53:04,827 --> 01:53:08,081
that she was coming down
from Flint to Washington, D.C.
2233
01:53:08,248 --> 01:53:10,458
to attend a job's conference.
2234
01:53:11,042 --> 01:53:13,962
On her break, she said
she was going to go and pay a visit
2235
01:53:14,128 --> 01:53:15,338
to the White House.
2236
01:53:15,505 --> 01:53:16,422
[helicopters throbbing]
2237
01:53:21,678 --> 01:53:22,720
[Lila sobbing]
2238
01:53:22,887 --> 01:53:25,431
[woman with accent, high-pitched]
Killed! Bush killed children!
2239
01:53:25,598 --> 01:53:28,226
-Iraqi children!
-My son killed.
2240
01:53:28,393 --> 01:53:30,270
He killed my people
in the Spain yesterday.
2241
01:53:30,436 --> 01:53:33,731
-Yes!
-He lies, kill people, your children too.
2242
01:53:33,898 --> 01:53:36,651
-Yes, my son.
-Business to do Iraq now.
2243
01:53:36,818 --> 01:53:38,736
And they killing
all these young Americans.
2244
01:53:38,903 --> 01:53:41,281
-Yes.
-For what? For oil.
2245
01:53:41,447 --> 01:53:43,157
Bush is a terrorist!
2246
01:53:43,324 --> 01:53:45,159
No, he isn't, this is all staged!
2247
01:53:45,326 --> 01:53:47,120
-Yes, he's the butcher of Iraq.
-This is staged.
2248
01:53:47,287 --> 01:53:48,288
My son!
2249
01:53:48,454 --> 01:53:49,581
Where was he killed?
2250
01:53:49,747 --> 01:53:51,791
You tell me my son
is not a stage?
2251
01:53:51,958 --> 01:53:54,586
-Where was he killed?
-He was killed in Karbala.
2252
01:53:54,752 --> 01:53:56,212
[protester rambles on]
2253
01:53:56,379 --> 01:54:00,550
April second, it's not a stage,
my son is dead.
2254
01:54:00,717 --> 01:54:02,969
Well, a lot of other people too.
2255
01:54:03,136 --> 01:54:06,723
[protester continues in background]
2256
01:54:07,390 --> 01:54:08,933
[woman shouts] Blame Al-Qaeda!
2257
01:54:09,100 --> 01:54:12,395
[throbbing]
2258
01:54:13,104 --> 01:54:15,064
[Michael Moore]
What did that woman yell at you?
2259
01:54:15,231 --> 01:54:17,567
That I'm supposed to blame the Al-Qaeda.
2260
01:54:18,568 --> 01:54:22,947
The Al-Qaeda didn't make a decision
to send my son to Iraq.
2261
01:54:23,114 --> 01:54:24,032
[sobs]
2262
01:54:24,199 --> 01:54:26,868
Ignorance that we deal with
with everyday people!
2263
01:54:27,035 --> 01:54:28,870
[nervous laughter]
'Cause they don't know.
2264
01:54:29,037 --> 01:54:30,997
People think they know,
but you don't know,
2265
01:54:31,164 --> 01:54:33,625
I thought I knew, but I didn't know.
2266
01:54:33,791 --> 01:54:35,168
[sniffling]
2267
01:54:37,086 --> 01:54:38,588
[sobbing]
2268
01:54:39,422 --> 01:54:41,090
I need my son!
2269
01:54:41,257 --> 01:54:44,886
[crying uncontrollably]
2270
01:54:45,053 --> 01:54:48,056
[machinery beeping]
2271
01:54:48,223 --> 01:54:55,188
[sobbing and sniffling]
2272
01:54:59,776 --> 01:55:03,446
God, it's tougher than I thought
it was gonna be to be here.
2273
01:55:05,156 --> 01:55:08,785
But it's freeing also,
because I finally have a place to...
2274
01:55:09,369 --> 01:55:11,829
to put all my pain, all my anger!
2275
01:55:11,996 --> 01:55:12,997
[sobbing]
2276
01:55:13,164 --> 01:55:14,582
And to release it!
2277
01:55:14,749 --> 01:55:17,168
[Lila sobbing]
2278
01:55:17,335 --> 01:55:19,295
[gentle guitar music]
2279
01:55:20,421 --> 01:55:24,425
[Michael Moore] I guess I was tired of
seeing people like Lila Lipscomb suffer.
2280
01:55:24,592 --> 01:55:28,555
Especially when,
out of the 535 members of Congress,
2281
01:55:29,305 --> 01:55:32,559
only one had an enlisted son in Iraq.
2282
01:55:36,271 --> 01:55:38,731
I asked Corporal Henderson
of the United States Marine Corps
2283
01:55:38,898 --> 01:55:40,775
to join me on Capitol Hill
2284
01:55:40,942 --> 01:55:44,571
to see how many members of Congress
we could convince
2285
01:55:44,737 --> 01:55:47,156
to enlist their children to go to Iraq.
2286
01:55:47,323 --> 01:55:49,033
Congressman, I'm Michael Moore.
2287
01:55:49,200 --> 01:55:51,870
Hey Michael, how are you doing?
I'm good, John Tanner.
2288
01:55:52,036 --> 01:55:54,539
Yeah, nice to meet you,
very nice to meet you.
2289
01:55:54,706 --> 01:55:56,875
-What are you doing?
-Well, I'm here with Cpl. Henderson.
2290
01:55:57,041 --> 01:56:00,044
-U.S. Marine Corps.
-Corporal, I was in the Navy years ago.
2291
01:56:00,211 --> 01:56:03,047
-Okay, Sir!
-1968 to 72.
2292
01:56:03,214 --> 01:56:05,091
We had Marines guarding the base.
2293
01:56:05,258 --> 01:56:07,093
-[Moore] You have kids?
-[Tanner] Yeah.
2294
01:56:07,260 --> 01:56:11,181
Is here anyway we can get them to enlist
and go over and help out with the effort?
2295
01:56:11,347 --> 01:56:12,682
I have all the brochures.
2296
01:56:12,849 --> 01:56:14,475
One of them got two children.
2297
01:56:15,268 --> 01:56:16,603
Oh, oh, well!
2298
01:56:16,769 --> 01:56:19,189
See, there's not that many Congressmen
that've got kids over there.
2299
01:56:19,355 --> 01:56:20,815
And in fact, only one.
2300
01:56:20,982 --> 01:56:25,987
So we just thought maybe you guys
should send your kids there first.
2301
01:56:26,154 --> 01:56:27,947
What do you think about that idea?
2302
01:56:28,114 --> 01:56:30,116
-I don't disagree with you.
-Oh, you don't?
2303
01:56:30,283 --> 01:56:32,619
Oh good, well, here,
take some brochures then, here.
2304
01:56:32,785 --> 01:56:35,038
At least take a Marine brochure,
and pass it around.
2305
01:56:35,205 --> 01:56:36,122
Yeah!
2306
01:56:36,289 --> 01:56:39,626
Encourage fellow members,
if they're for the war, to get behind it,
2307
01:56:39,792 --> 01:56:41,044
and send their own!
2308
01:56:41,211 --> 01:56:43,671
-Thank you, Mike.
-Thank you, Sir, thank you very much.
2309
01:56:45,131 --> 01:56:47,550
Congressman! Michael Moore.
2310
01:56:47,717 --> 01:56:48,968
-How are you doing?
-Good, good!
2311
01:56:49,135 --> 01:56:53,139
I'm trying to get members of Congress
to get their kids to enlist in the Army
2312
01:56:53,306 --> 01:56:54,807
and go over to Iraq.
2313
01:56:56,142 --> 01:56:59,144
Congressman! Congressman!
2314
01:56:59,311 --> 01:57:01,563
Congressman Castle!
Congressman Castle!
2315
01:57:01,730 --> 01:57:03,941
Congressman! Congressman!
2316
01:57:04,107 --> 01:57:06,944
-Congressman Doolittle, Michael Moore!
-Ah, no, no, no!
2317
01:57:07,110 --> 01:57:08,320
I'm wondering if...
2318
01:57:08,487 --> 01:57:10,948
[theme song]
2319
01:57:11,114 --> 01:57:12,991
Is there any way that...
2320
01:57:14,660 --> 01:57:15,786
Uh!
2321
01:57:15,953 --> 01:57:19,831
Of course, not a single member of Congress
wanted to sacrifice their child
2322
01:57:19,998 --> 01:57:21,500
for the war in Iraq.
2323
01:57:22,084 --> 01:57:23,210
And who could blame them?
2324
01:57:23,377 --> 01:57:24,253
[music intensifies]
2325
01:57:24,419 --> 01:57:27,548
Who would want to give up their child.
Would you?
2326
01:57:28,590 --> 01:57:29,716
Would he?
2327
01:57:32,469 --> 01:57:34,304
I've always been amazed
that the very people
2328
01:57:34,805 --> 01:57:38,350
forced to live in the worst parts of town,
go to the worst schools
2329
01:57:38,934 --> 01:57:41,270
and who have it the hardest,
2330
01:57:41,436 --> 01:57:45,023
are always the first to step up
to defend that very system.
2331
01:57:45,941 --> 01:57:48,902
They serve so that we don't have to.
2332
01:57:49,528 --> 01:57:51,530
They offer to give up their lives
2333
01:57:52,197 --> 01:57:54,157
so that we can be free.
2334
01:57:55,242 --> 01:57:57,786
It is remarkable, their gift to us.
2335
01:57:58,787 --> 01:58:00,789
And all they ask for in return,
2336
01:58:01,957 --> 01:58:04,543
is that we never send them
into harm's way.
2337
01:58:05,252 --> 01:58:08,172
Unless it's absolutely necessary.
2338
01:58:10,132 --> 01:58:12,467
Will they ever trust us again?
2339
01:58:13,677 --> 01:58:15,721
He had used weapons.
2340
01:58:15,888 --> 01:58:17,014
We know where they are,
2341
01:58:17,181 --> 01:58:19,683
they're in the area
around Tikrit and Baghdad,
2342
01:58:19,850 --> 01:58:21,602
and East, West, South, and North.
2343
01:58:21,768 --> 01:58:26,064
There is a tie between Iraq
and what happened on 9/11.
2344
01:58:26,565 --> 01:58:31,320
The struggle can only end with
their complete and permanent destruction.
2345
01:58:31,486 --> 01:58:34,948
We waged a war
to save a civilization itself.
2346
01:58:36,783 --> 01:58:38,368
We did not seek it,
2347
01:58:39,453 --> 01:58:42,623
but we will fight it, and we will prevail.
2348
01:58:43,498 --> 01:58:45,501
[Michael Moore]
George Orwell once wrote
2349
01:58:45,667 --> 01:58:50,255
that it's not a matter of whether the war
is not real or if it is.
2350
01:58:50,714 --> 01:58:52,549
Victory is not possible.
2351
01:58:53,800 --> 01:58:56,094
The war is not meant to be won.
2352
01:58:56,261 --> 01:58:58,222
It is meant to be continuous.
2353
01:58:59,598 --> 01:59:04,645
A hierarchical society is only possible
on the basis of poverty and ignorance.
2354
01:59:05,979 --> 01:59:08,315
This new version is the past
2355
01:59:08,482 --> 01:59:10,984
and no different past
can ever have existed.
2356
01:59:13,570 --> 01:59:14,655
In principle, the war effort
2357
01:59:14,821 --> 01:59:18,909
is always planned to keep society
on the brink of starvation.
2358
01:59:19,326 --> 01:59:22,412
The war is waged by the ruling group
against its own subjects,
2359
01:59:23,705 --> 01:59:25,415
and its object is not the victory
2360
01:59:25,582 --> 01:59:29,378
over either Eurasia
or East Asia,
2361
01:59:29,545 --> 01:59:33,090
but to keep
the very structure of society intact.
2362
01:59:33,423 --> 01:59:35,175
There's an old saying in Tennessee,
2363
01:59:35,342 --> 01:59:36,927
I know it's in Texas,
probably in Tennessee,
2364
01:59:37,094 --> 01:59:38,887
that says: "Fool me once...
2365
01:59:40,222 --> 01:59:41,640
shame on...
2366
01:59:42,933 --> 01:59:44,101
shame on you!
2367
01:59:44,268 --> 01:59:46,979
[rock music starts]
2368
01:59:47,145 --> 01:59:49,189
Fool me, you can't get fooled again."
2369
01:59:49,356 --> 01:59:51,358
[Michael Moore]
For once, we agreed.
2370
01:59:51,525 --> 01:59:55,904
[Neil Young's
"Rockin' in the free World" playing]
2371
01:59:57,004 --> 02:00:07,004
Visit www.nicolascanni.com and
click @ the Ads U Like, Thank You!
2372
02:00:27,811 --> 02:00:29,813
♪ There's colors on the street ♪
2373
02:00:31,106 --> 02:00:33,108
♪ Red
White and blue ♪
2374
02:00:35,152 --> 02:00:37,154
♪ People shuffling their feet ♪
2375
02:00:38,322 --> 02:00:40,824
♪ People sleeping in their shoes ♪
2376
02:00:42,117 --> 02:00:43,619
♪ But there's a warning sign ♪
2377
02:00:43,785 --> 02:00:45,329
♪ On the road ahead ♪
2378
02:00:46,121 --> 02:00:47,456
♪ There's a lot
of people saying ♪
2379
02:00:47,623 --> 02:00:49,166
♪ We'd be better
Off dead ♪
2380
02:00:49,791 --> 02:00:51,001
♪ There's one more kid ♪
2381
02:00:51,168 --> 02:00:52,878
♪ That will never go to school ♪
2382
02:00:53,420 --> 02:00:54,796
♪ Never get to fall in love ♪
2383
02:00:54,963 --> 02:00:56,715
♪ Never get to be cool ♪
2384
02:00:57,966 --> 02:01:00,552
♪ Keep on rockin' in the free world ♪
2385
02:01:05,182 --> 02:01:07,851
♪ Keep on rockin'
In the free world ♪
2386
02:01:12,481 --> 02:01:15,108
♪ Keep on rockin' in the free world ♪
2387
02:01:19,655 --> 02:01:22,324
♪ Keep on rockin' in the free world ♪
2388
02:01:40,634 --> 02:01:42,761
♪ We got a thousand points of light ♪
2389
02:01:44,263 --> 02:01:46,056
♪ For the homeless man ♪
2390
02:01:46,223 --> 02:01:47,766
♪ We got a kinder, gentler ♪
2391
02:01:49,142 --> 02:01:51,311
♪ Machine
Gun hand ♪
2392
02:02:02,447 --> 02:02:05,325
♪ We got a man of the people
Says keep hope alive♪
2393
02:02:06,034 --> 02:02:09,454
♪ Got fuel to burn
Got roads to drive ♪
2394
02:02:10,414 --> 02:02:13,041
♪ Keep on rockin'
In the free world ♪
2395
02:02:17,671 --> 02:02:20,924
♪ Keep on rockin' in the free world ♪
2396
02:02:24,887 --> 02:02:28,056
♪ Keep on rockin' in the free world ♪
2397
02:02:32,144 --> 02:02:35,522
♪ Keep on rockin' in the free world ♪
2397
02:02:36,305 --> 02:03:36,713
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