interesting commentary on fahrenheit 9/11:

"Moore, himself, is not as partisan... He does not spare Democrats in his film. Moore points out how most Democratic senators, including Kerry, not only voted for the Iraq war but didn’t criticize Bush’s decision to invade until recently. In one scene, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle urged his colleagues to vote for Bush’s Iraq war. Daschle attended the Washington, D.C., premiere of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and told Moore after seeing the film that he "felt bad and that we were all going to fight from now on." That’s a key difference between Democratic politicians and Republican ones: Most Democrats will admit when they are wrong, while most Republicans won’t.

Still, there are some Republicans who will admit when they are wrong and even speak out against policies that are wrong. One is retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, the Bush administration’s special envoy to the Middle East and commander of the U.S. Central Command in the Middle East in the late 1990s. Zinni recently said senior Pentagon officials were guilty of "dereliction of duty" for poor strategic thinking, operational planning and ground execution. Lack of basic equipment has been a continuous problem in this war; the Army did not fully equip soldiers with bullet-proof vests until June 2004, as many soldiers had to pay for such vests themselves."

Article here

it's interesting to think that maybe it's not a partisan issue (not much more than finger pointing), but an optimism on what we CAN do right in the future, and learn from our mistakes.

hopefully.

more support for the film: (which I think IS important for americans to see).

"Moore’s movie also touched on some dangerous precedents set in the so-called Patriot Act, but didn’t even cover how Bush’s decision to invade Iraq violated the United Nations charter, how the U.S. violated the Geneva Convention in its treatment of detainees, how a U.S. Justice Department memo proclaimed that torture of prisoners was legal in violation of the International Convention Against Torture."

one more disclaimer, from michael moore himself:

"Let them know that the OPINIONS in the film are mine, and anyone certainly has a right to disagree with them. And the questions I pose in the movie, based on these irrefutable facts, are also mine. And I have a right to ask them. And I will continue to ask them until they are answered."