Random Michael Moore Deceits [#38]

Condi statement [from Fahrenheit 9/11]

"Fahrenheit shows Condoleezza Rice saying, "Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11." The audience laughs derisively. Here is what Rice really said on the CBS Early Show, Nov. 28, 2003:

"Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York. This is a great terrorist, international terrorist network that is determined to defeat freedom. It has perverted Islam from a peaceful religion into one in which they call on it for violence. And they're all linked. And Iraq is a central front because, if and when, and we will, we change the nature of Iraq to a place that is peaceful and democratic and prosperous in the heart of the Middle East, you will begin to change the Middle East...."

Moore deceptively cut the Rice quote to fool the audience into thinking she was making a particular claim, even though she was pointedly not making such a claim. And since Rice spoke in November 2003, her quote had nothing to do with building up American fears before the March 2003 invasion, although Moore implies otherwise."

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"Condoleezza Rice caught something of their relationship in November 2003:
"Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York . . ."

Michael Moore uses Fahrenheit 9/11 to deny the existence of any relationship between the bigots and the tyrant. He took a stab at making Condoleezza Rice look foolish by presenting his audience with only the first line of the above quote: "Oh, indeed there was a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11" which elicited a derisive laugh from Moore's audience of self-styled "sophisticated thinkers." These suckers had been cheated out of the whole truth and they were sitting there laughing like know-it-alls."

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