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Moor’s film strips away with valid loyal frontage of the Bush administration with humor and tragedy to create a very influential but flawless message that President George W. Bush used false pretenses to go to war while inspiring his friends and letting the common people suffer the fallout. The film moves between powerfully tragic scenes to distortion. "Fahrenheit 9/11" openson a note and Moore as narrator, brings humor and sarcasm to his comments, and occasionally appears onscreen in a gadfly role. For example, when he brings along a Marine who refused to return to Iraq; together, they confront congressmen, urging them to have their children enlist in the service. And he makes good use of candid footage, including an eerie video showing Bush practicing facialexpressions before going live with his address to the nation about 9/11. The film “Fahrenheit 9/11” is obvious: offers evidence, information and materials by illustrating them with dramatic images and relentless commentary track that essentially concludes that President George W. Bush is incompetent, dishonest, has bad taste in friends failing in the war on terrorism, and his administration is corrupt(Fahrenheit 9/11).
Although Moor’s narration ranges from outrage to sarcasm, the most devastating passage in the film speaks for itself. For example, when Bush, who was reading My Pet Goat to a classroom of Florida children, is notified of the second attack on the World Trade Center, and yet lingers with the kids for almost seven minutes before finally leaving the room. His inexplicableparalysis wasn't underlined in news reports at the time, and only Moore thought to contact the teacher in that schoolroom -- who, as it turned out, had made her own video of the visit. The expression on Bush's face as he sits there is odd indeed. (Fahrenheit 9/11).
Another person who has found that the contrast between the president’s behavior and what was happening in New York troubling isLorie Van Auken, whose Husband was one of the victims of the attacks on the towers. Having obtain the video of the presidents; session with the children, She watched it over and over, saying later: “I couldn’t stop watching the president sitting there, listening to second graders, while my husband was burning in a building and making joke, saying: “Really good readers, whew! Those must be sixthgraders!” Also when he was just tolde by and advisor that the country was under attack, I wondered how the president could make a joke” (Griffin 60).
Bush, here and elsewhere in the film, is characterized as a man who owes a lot to his friends, including those who helped bail him out of business ventures. D’SOUZA writes “Moore places particular emphasis on what he sees as a long-termfriendship between the Bush family and powerful Saudi Arabians. More than $1.4 billion in Saudi money has flowed into the coffers of Bush family enterprises, he says, and after 9/11 the White House helped expedite flights out of the country carrying, among others, members of the bin Laden family” (D’SOUZA 183).
Another interesting fact reported by Moore, when he examines the military recordsreleased by Bush to explain his disappearance from the Texas Air National Guard, and finds that the name of another pilot has been blacked out. This pilot, he learns, was Bush's close friend James R. Bath, who became Texas money manager for the billionaire Bin Laden. Another indication of the closeness of the Bushes and the Saudis: The law firm of James Baker, the secretary of State for Bush'sfather, was hired by the Saudis to defend them against a suit by a group of 9/11 victims and survivors, who charged that the Saudis had financed al-Qaida (Fahrenheit 9/11).
According to Griffin, Bush administration did not got to war in Iraq because the war would be good for Halliburton. It went on war because of en idea about America’s world historical mission. One Reason is that after 9/11,...