Originally posted by AThousandYoungI live in Ireland, they never go anywhere unless they have a blue hat on 😛
If your government drafted you to fight in any of the number of wars in the Middle East, would you resist?
I don't know if I would or not to be honest. Probably not, but I'd protest while doing what they needed me to do. But who knows? Tough call.
Originally posted by MacSwainIt would seem there are acolytes of Michael Moore who use his movie as their source of fact concerning USA politicians and their children. His movies are frauds contrived with fraudulent editing with fraudulent intent, end of story.
Remember that scene from Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 where Michael and a soldier accost politicians in Washington D.C. and asked them to send their children to Iraq? Most of us recognized that rhetorical masquerade for what it was. Obviously, no person can sign their adult children up for the military.
But the impression Moore gave in the movie was t ...[text shortened]... , in essence, Michael Moore misrepresented the facts. Which isn't all that surprising at all.
Representative Kennedy, (Republican Minnesota) one of the lawmakers accosted in Fahrenheit 9-11 was censored by Michael Moore.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Kennedy, when asked if he would be willing to send his son to Iraq, responded by stating he had a nephew in route to Afghanistan. He went on to inform Moore his son was considering a career in the navy and two other nephews had already served in the armed forces. Kennedy’s side of the conversation, however, was cut from the interview, leaving him looking bewildered and defensive in the movie.
After seeing Moore’s rendition of his interview, Kennedy lambasted Moore as “master of misleading.”