Reply #96: Are you saying Iraqi's aren't ordinary people? [View All]

[Bjorn Against]

Yes, kids were able to play even in Saddam Hussein's regime. Michael Moore was not misrepresenting anything, he was portraying Iraqis as being ordinary people in those scenes. He was reminding us that Saddam Hussein was not the only person in Iraq. He was doing what every reporter should have been doing, he was shown the lives of everyday ordinary Iraqis. He was showing the ones who have never harmed anyone out having a good time, and reminding us that war could take those good times away from them.

That scene was not about Saddam Hussein, and to suggest that it is is misrepresenting Moore's work.

On edit: And I must ask you to back up one of your points as well. You said "It would be like al qaeda convincing suicide bombers it's okay to blow up Americans because they're all fuckheads like Dick Cheney." Where did Michael Moore ever say it was okay for suicide bombers to blow up Americans, much less try to convince Al Qaeda to do it?