... Glenda and I saw it yesterday.

>> It's an excellent movie! Very funny and Very well put together.

Mostly agreed. I had read, prior to seeing it, most of the right wing criticisms and the left wing accolades. Regardless of how you view the over-the-top conclusions he reaches on some subjects (in particular, the Bush-bin Laden family connection, the bin Laden family evacuation after 9/11 and the Bush-Carlyle Group connection), the interviews with combat troops, the scenes of wounded soldiers and the segment on Lila Lipscombe and her son (she was intereviewed both before and after he was killed in Iraq) are poignant and very moving. I'm not ashamed to admit that I shed a few tears watching Mrs. Lipscombe's response to her son's death.

The footage of Bush's response to the news of the second plane hitting the WTC was excruciating -- deer-in-the-headlights stuff. Made all the more so by my having recently watched for the second time the CNN "America Remembers" tribute to 9/11 and the response of New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who demonstrated unflinching personal courage and immediate, on-the-scene, extraordinary leadership.

Moore's attempts to discuss with several congressmen the possible enlistment of their own sons to go to Iraq were funny (he reports that only 1 of the 535 members of congress has an enlisted person child in Iraq). For the ABB crowd, there are also some hilarious Bush-isms.

Make no mistake -- this is a very polemical exercise and Moore is a first rate propagandist (he makes no bones about this being an anti-Bush diatribe). I expect that Bush supporters will hate it; nevertheless, I think everyone should see it so as to draw their own conclusions. I am no big John Kerry fan, but can't help thinking that overall this will help him by hurting Bush.

----- jim o\-S