| Robert Frost |
Posted
on 25-Mar-03 07:17 AM
Those are not my words, those are the acceptance speech of Michael Moore at the Oscars. Accompanied on stage by his fellow documentary nominees, Moore, who won best documentary feature for "Bowling for Columbine," wasted no time in lighting into President Bush, the 2000 election and the war in Iraq.
"I've invited my fellow documentary nominees on stage with us here in solidarity with me," he said, "because we like non-fiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man who's sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. ... We have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you."
Yesterday I saw a report on BBC World where the reporter was on board the guided missile cruiser Mobile Bay as it fired its first Tomahawk salvos, on their one hour flight to Baghdad. The sailors let out a cheer to be finally part of the action. There is no dignity in war and even less so in a push-button war with one side overwhelming superior in firepower.
Frost.
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