Directed By: William Karel Average Rating: Binding: DVD Format: Color, Import, NTSC Label: Flach Film Number of Items: 1 Release Date: October 18, 2004 Running Time: 91 minutes
Brilliant and informative This is the absolute best documentary I have seen to date on political/financial corruption and the brainwashing of the public, with the help of the corporate-controlled and gutless media. This film is required viewing for the intelligent half of the population, as well as the less intelligent half that identifies with their leader (to quote writer Norman Mailer).
If the world is to be ruled... ...along Bush's guidelines, then perjury should be the first tool to be used. After starting a war, basing his decision (anyway, he couldn't think of anything else to do) upon false/wrong information, he never stopped lying and cheating (which shows where are the americans' first interests, since Clinton was evicted for a small lie regarding personal matters, Bush should well deserve to be court-martialed and shot). Perjury is with him such a way of governing that even his friends and employees (I say HIS employees, since I can't believe the taxpayers look at them as public servants), at least most of them, has been indicted, condemned or did resign).
It would be pitiful if it was not so frightening seeing him throning in the White House (should be renamed the Dark House), wit no impeachment procedure in sight. Nixon was not a nice guy, but at least he got some brains, while Bush's only asset is his money, money inherited from his grand father who got it by banking for Hitler's goons (no wonder he's such a favorite/pet for oil & weapons industries tycoons!!!
The Answer The question: IF no connection to Al Qaida AND no WMDs, why Saddam?
Yes, the U.S. government helped solidify Saddam's power. But both sides were players as well as pawns. Even if no WMD stockpiles existed and no ties were found between Saddam and the terrorists who struck us - we were already at war with Saddam. He never abided by the agreement that ended the First Gulf War. He never proved that he destroyed his weapons because he wanted his neighbors and his people to believe that he still had them. It was the French government that insisted to Saddam that the U.S. would not invade. All sides overplayed their hands, Saddam did not prove his destruction of the weapons or leave Iraq, which would have halted the U.S. invasion in its tracks. If this eventuality would have happened, there still would be Al Qaida in Iraq that would have to be dealt with (we all know the leader there Zarqawi who has made fame chopping off heads on camera) by us or someone else.
Oil is a factor in everything as it is a source of energy. But so are food and medicine - thigns that Saddam systematically witheld from his own people. One should look at all sides and understand that no one person started this conflict, but that it should be ended.
The World According to Bush Although my Panasonic DVD recorder/player was unable to "read" this disc, thus viewed it om my computor (a minor inconvienience), I found this to be a serious and well-done documentary...one that we all should see and share with everyone we know. Where "Fahrenheight 9/11" was well-done for entertainment as well as information, this French film-maker created a documentary that delves more into the Bush Family history which is important to know in order to better understand where G.W. is coming from.
The WMD question is explored at some length and the fact that GWB, Vice President Cheney and Colin Powel knew full well that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and al Quada, that there certainly was not enough evidence to prove that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, intentionally lying to the American people.
What is telling, confirming the Bush administration lied about Saddam Hussein, is a comment made by the president in a cabinet meeting, a year after the invasion, stating he knew there was no connection between al Quada and the Iraqi regime. This, of course, begs the question, if this administration knew there was no connection between al Quada and Saddam Hussein, and there was no solid proof that this regime possessed weapons of mass destruction, why was the country invaded, killing hundreds of American soldiers and thousands of Iraqi men, women and children?
This film also reveals this administrations incestuous connection to corporations in the oil industry and responsible for building the war machine - Halliburton, (Vice President is an ex CEO) Lockheed Martin, (Mrs. Cheney is on the board of directors) Kellogg, Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, have exclusive contracts in the "reconstruction" of war torn Iraq.
The central "money-connection" is the Saudi Arabians, who spend billions of dollars in Washington DC through various lobby groups, more than anyone else. Strangely, the Bush family and the bin Laden family have been in business together and continue a lucrative relationship to this day. As the bin Laden's and the Saudi's were the only people allowed to fly out of the country during 9/11, shows that the administration at least has enough sense not to bite the hand that feeds them.
This is a brave film that reveals evidence of deep-seated corruption in the highest echelons of government. What is mind boggling is that ten years ago, these men would have been dragged in front of senate committees, investigated and brought to justice for lying to the American people, but it seems no one can touch them. Why?
The World According to Bush is a serious film without the fanfare and unnecessary hype - it presents the evidence and leaves it to the viewer to decide. A telling film of power and corruption.
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