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Although Bush senior was not on the Carlyle Board until 1998, G. W. Bush on the Carlyle board in the early 1990s - apparently a no-show favor (see: http://prorev.com/bushcarlyle.htm) Also on the board is/was James Baker.

I really wished all these journalists that are dissecting Michael Moores analysis with a fine tooth comb would have spend 1/2 as much effort analyizing Bush's reasons for going to war.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/02/op...er=rssuserland

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Many of these same pundits consider it bad form to make a big fuss about the Bush administration's use of association and innuendo to link the Iraq war to 9/11. Why hold a self-proclaimed polemicist to a higher standard than you hold the president of the United States?

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Mr. Moore may not be considered respectable, but his film is a hit because the respectable media haven't been doing their job.

For example, audiences are shocked by the now-famous seven minutes, when George Bush knew the nation was under attack but continued reading "My Pet Goat" with a group of children. Nobody had told them that the tales of Mr. Bush's decisiveness and bravery on that day were pure fiction.
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Mr. Moore's greatest strength is a real empathy with working-class Americans that most journalists lack. Having stripped away Mr. Bush's common-man mask, he uses his film to make the case, in a way statistics never could, that Mr. Bush's policies favor a narrow elite at the expense of less fortunate Americans — sometimes, indeed, at the cost of their lives.

I liked the part of the film when Moore describes the average soldier, 'they come from the less privileged part of society and volunteered to defend us and our country and risk their own life. They only ask one thing from us, only put us in harms way when it is absolutely necessary.'