122 minutes, this documentary sets out to prove that the leader of America is a monkey. Home boy Georgie is seen hunting
armadillos in a classic marlboro man stance while 'working' on the golf course.
While taking another aimless break from the whitehouse, down in Texas, a reporter says to Bush(in an ironic yet classic FOX News manner) that 'some might say' that Bush is taking far too many golf holidays and is not seen doing any work. His response is 'I don't know what you call work but this (playing golf) is work.' Asked what he plans to do with the rest of his day, he replies, 'Later, my...she's gonna come over and we'll do stuff...work. We will do work...things.'
I don't know what that garbled sentence is meant to mean but the only work Moore places Bush in any context of is 1. shmoozing up to the Suadi embassy 2. creating fictional means for a war, and 3. making himself look like a Class A Clown.
The documentary covers the controversial Florida vote that won George W Bush the 2000 presidency then uses Bush's incompetency as a springboard to discuss issues of the 9/11 investigation, Bush's family links to Saudi Arabian oil, the Bin Laden family, the use of Afghanistan as a red herring to incite a means into Iraq by US
armed forces and then the consequent stories of American soldiers in Iraq and their families back home.
One poignant story is that of Lila Lipschombe of Flint, Michigan. She begins her narrative by saying how patriotic she is, how much she believes that the military is the best option for kids who are poor. She is a career advisor to millions of teens and has always pushed the military as a sound opportunity for career and educational growth. Two of her children have entered the armed forces. Her daughter served in desert rose and her eldest son was shipped to Iraq. The twist in the tale here is the letter Lila receives from her son a week before his death in Kabul. This letter says how he feels that the war is pointless, there are no weapons of mass destruction, the US are participating in needless killing and how he is so angry at George. Words cannot express the emotion you feel as you watch this mother read out her son's last words as the tears roll down her face. Your heart rises into your throat. It is a prickly feeling that the American public is being fed on a media diet of fear. They are ignorant of the real motives behind the war. They are being kept ignorant by a president who is playing guns and ammo for his own entertainment.