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Politics : Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore's Masterpiece -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (1153)	6/29/2004 5:15:23 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2772

I would not have sent my kid to Vietnam; I would not have wanted them in Haiti, the Balkans, or Somalia, or Iraq- if I could not send my own child, I would never feel comfortable sending other people's children. I think our congressional representatives feel all TOO comfortable sending other people's children- that was the point Moore was making, and it was made well. I am glad he made it.

To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (1153)	6/29/2004 5:20:15 PM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2772

The point is actually much broader. It is not simply that members of congress do not have children fighting this war. Those who are fighting it are children of poverty. That is the whole point of the segments in which Moore talks to kids in Flint who see the military as a way out of dead-end unemployment. And that is why he follows the Marine recruiters as they cynically cruise the poor-people's mall looking for "prospects." This war, not surprisingly, exposes the class and racial nerve lines in the country and Moore simply points that out. M2