Fahrenheit 9/11

George W. Bush:
I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you.

George W. Bush:
Now, watch this drive.

Narrator:
Who's your daddy?

Narrator:
He couldn't get his judges appointed. He had trouble getting his legislation passed, and he lost Republican control of the Senate. His approval ratings in the polls began to sink. He was already beginning to look like a lame duck president. With everything going wrong, he did what any of us would do. He went... on vacation.

Britney Spears:
I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.

George W. Bush:
Did I hear somebody say "nice shot"?

Michael Moore:
As the attack took place, Mr. Bush was on his way to an elementary school in Florida. When informed of the first plane hitting the world trade center, where terrorists had struck just eight years prior, Mr. Bush decided to go ahead with his photo opportunity.

Michael Moore:
When the second plane hit the tower, his chief of staff entered the classroom and told Mr. Bush the nation is under attack.

Michael Moore:
Not knowing what to do, with no one telling him what to do, and with no secret service rushing in to take him to safety, Mr. Bush just sat there, and continued to read "My Pet Goat" with the children.

Michael Moore:
Nearly seven minutes passed with nobody doing anything.

John Conyers:
Sit down, my son. We don't read most of the bills.

George W. Bush:
What an impressive crowd: the haves, and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite, I call you my base.

Katie Couric:
I just want to say, I think Navy SEALS rock!

George W. Bush:
Sure a dictatorship would be easier.

Byron Dorgan:
We had some airplanes authorized at the highest levels of our government to fly to pick up Osama Bin Laden's family members and others from Saudi Arabia and transport them out of this country.

Narrator:
It turns out that the White House approved planes to pick up the bin Ladens and numerous other Saudis. At least six private jets and nearly two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and the Bin Ladens out of the U.S. after September 13th. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country.

Narrator:
It won't matter, just so long as all of your daddy's friends on the Su-preme Court vote the right way.

George W. Bush:
After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time.

Lila Lipscomb:
My *son* is not staged.

Michael Moore:
Is there any terrorist target around here?

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:
The targeting capabilities and the care that goes into targeting is...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:
...is as impressive as anything anyone could see. The care that goes into it, the humanity that goes into it...

Neil Cavuto:
Am I slanted and biased? You damn well bet I am!

George W. Bush:
There are some who feel like that if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they are talking about if that's the case. Let me finish. There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on.

Narrator:
While Bush was busy taking care of his base and professing his love for our troops, he proposed cutting combat soldiers' pay by 33% and assistance to their families by 60%. He opposed giving veterans a billion dollars more in health care benefits, and he supported closing veteran hospitals. He tried to double the prescription drug costs for veterans and opposed full benefits for part-time reservists. And when Staff Sergeant Brett Petriken from Flint was killed in Iraq on May 26th, the army sent his last paycheck to his family, but they docked him for the last five days of the month that he didn't work because he was dead.

Narrator:
Not a single member of Congress wanted to sacrifice their child for the war in Iraq. And who could blame them? Who would want to give up their child? Would you?

Narrator:
Would he? I've always been amazed that the very people forced to live in the worst parts of town, go to the worst schools, and who have it the hardest are always the first to step up, to defend us. They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is remarkably their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?

George W. Bush:
We wage a war to save civilization itself. We did not seek it. But, we will fight it. And we will prevail.

Narrator:
In his first eight months in office before September 11th, George W. Bush was on vacation, according to the Washington Post, forty-two percent of the time.

Narrator:
Not even Ricky Martin could fly.

Lila Lipscomb:
The ignorance of everyday people killed my son.

Narrator:
Was it all just a dream?

Al Gore:
God bless you, Florida! Thank you!

Narrator:
Did the last four years not really happen? Look, there's Ben Affleck. He's often in my dreams. And the Taxi Driver guy. He was there too. And little Stevie Wonder, he seemed so happy... like, like a miracle had taken place. Was it a dream? Or was it real?

Narrator:
Of course, none of these countries had an army, so it looked like we'd be doing most of the fighting ourselves.

Narrator:
The FBI was coming to see Barry, and they weren't there to jazzercise.

Michael Moore:
I couldn't believe that virtually no member of Congress had read the Patriot Act before voting on it. So I decided that the only patriotic thing to do, was for me to read it to them.

Michael Moore:
Meet John Ashcroft. In 2000, he was running for re-election as Senator from Missouri against a man who died the month before the election. The voters preferred the dead guy, so George W. Bush made him his Attorney General. He was sworn in on a stack of Bibles, 'cause when you can't beat a dead guy, you need all the help you can get.