Fahrenheit 9/11

Three of us (myself, Robin, and Steve) have seen 9/11 as of this writing. What did we see? Too much to say. This is why the unanimous conclusion of all reviewers is: go see it, make up your mind.

Example: W. Bush and his family have strong business ties to Saudi Arabia. How strong these ties are, simply cannot be summarized. For example, you also have to understand what an objective failure W had been in life. He was fast heading to earning nothing -- losing money, while it rained black gold in Texas -- when he was put on the board at Harken Energy, a major investor of which was the Bin Laden family. He is shown explaining to an interviewer in 1990 that his access to his President-father is quite valuable to Harken -- putting his finger right on the reason he was able to draw salary, his dad was President, and he was the conduit between the Saudis and his dad. Heck, Harken never put me on its board.

The Saudi's have paid in salary and business $1.4Billion dollars to Bush, his family, and their business partners and friends over 30 years. In contrast, Bush will take home $1.2Million after serving in the White House for 4 years. This is not to say Bush has been "bought" -- but of course, since he and his friends have made 1000x as much from the Saudis, the Saudis have their sympathetic ears. On the day that the Bush administration had flown 24 members of the Bin Laden family out of the US on chartered flights, prior to chartered flights being generally cleared by the FAA -- Sept 13 2001 -- Bush had dinner with the Saudi Ambassador, a man who he calls "Bandar Bush". Bush considers the man a member of his family, a privelige not generally available to the public.

Further, why are the Saudi's investing in oil business in Texas -- where less than a percent of the world's oil is produced? How about this: because it gives them the opportunity to pay the salaries of people like Herbert Walker Bush, W. Bush, James Baker, and others who pull power in the US.

This goes to why Bush focusses on Iraq, and not Saudi Arabia, where 15 of the 19 9/11 hijakers came from.

We learn this in a stretch of 5 minutes. The movie is 1 hour 52 minutes long, and all of it this dense. The point here isn't that a crime against the US has been perpetrated by W., it is that, on the facts which are obvious, one should never trust this guy with guiding our policy -- he's obviously conflicted.