Michael Moore asks GWB Some Questions

Here is an extract from his new book: Dude, Where's my Country?

Nothing new there, really. Everybody knows the Bush and Bin Laden families go way back and that the Bin Ladens were the first to be flown out of the country after 9/11.

And It's a well-known fact that the US Govt has turned a Blind Eye to Human Rights abuses and repression in Saudi Arabia for decades, lest their oil supply be turned off or the trillions of Saudi dollars invested in the US economy be withdrawn.

Moore points out, to those of us who still believe that 9/11 was orchestrated by a guy in a cave on the other side of the world, that it is highly unlikely that somebody with a couple of hours in a simulator managed to hit those targets with such precision (especially if they still needed to cram on the way to the airport and leave those Arabic flight manuals in the rental car that was so quickly and conveniently found). His allegation that it was the Saudi Government itself may be a bit contentious, but there were an awful lot of Saudis named as the hijackers, were there not?

He goes on his usual crusade against Gun Control, reminds us all of the links between the Taliban and the US government and asks a seemingly absurd question about Bush's reaction to the news that the Twin Towers had been hit. He also contradicts himself from time to time, firstly blaming the Saudis and then moaning that the Arabs are always the first to get the blame (cf. Oklahoma city). I blame the US education system, myself (for Moore's literary style, not 9/11... although it may have been an indirect factor).

A very interesting (but still not new) bit of information is the Policy Analysis Market which was proposed by the U.S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This little beauty allows you to log on and "see what would happen" to global markets if a major political event were to occur in a country, something like a coup d'etat, assasination or terrorist attack.

Now, isn't that just a little TOO obvious, huh guys? Let's just say I discover that bumping off Tony Blair is going to cause a huge jump in the price of toothpaste in Uganda, so I buy up all the shares in toothpaste manufacturing companies in Central Africa and pay somebody to blow Tony's head off. Man, the temptation would be just a little too hard to resist... I mean, all that MONEY! What's wrong with causing a little bit of chaos when you're going to Cash In so much?

So, nothing new, but good to see that somebody's keeping the Bush Regime on its' toes. More ranting