Jump starting the film is Al Gore giving his victory speech in Florida that proclaims him as our next President, based on media projections. Almost in the same breath, in the Fox TV studios, they break the story that George W. Bush will win the state. Soon the other networks confirm that change. Gore seals his own fate as he presides over a congressional session that approves Bush as President, with the backdrop of alleged black disfranchisement voiced by African American congresspersons falling on the deaf ears of each and every US Senator. There may have been silent moral support by some, but politics dictate that no one raises their hand. Political point of view and action/non action is what this film is all about.

Following this is some background footage as to the state of our foreign policy by the Bush administration prior to the events of 9/11. A key transition marking the importance of the subject is when the devastating sounds of impact moments of that day are replayed on a dark screen. Americans are united in that something severe must be done to atone for this attack on our homeland. The questions are… What, how and to whom? There are many things in this fast moving film and we’ll highlight three of them that you will not see in the promotional trailers or likely find in other reviews.

The question of what being a patriot means is offered for analysis. Are you anti-American if you are against the war in Iraq? Does this mean you don’t support American men and women (our children) in harm’s way, who are there to protect our liberty?

Is our Homeland Security for real if there is only one part time police officer patrolling more than 100 miles of coastland in Oregon?

While much of the footage is of President Bush and his key foreign policy makers, such as Cheney, Rumsfield, Rice and Powell, the most riveting person was Lila Lipscomb. She is a working mom in Moore’s hometown of Flint, Michigan who flies her flag every day. With the demise of so many real jobs (those that pay a living wage), she believes that the military offers a great opportunity for many of our young people, as the Marine recruiters in the film will attest to. Not only is her story powerful, but the few words from her generally silent husband and letter from her son help connect the dots of the grand scope of US foreign policy to those of us worrying about paying our utility bills.

Surprisingly, this documentary (which makes no effort to show noble reasons for the Bush foreign policy) does not have nearly as much of the in your face confrontational footage that Moore presented to us in "Bowling for Columbine" and "Roger and Me" (the documentary on General Motors).

It seems that being liberal or conservative is secondary to having power and money. As Moore says in the film, if you make $400,000 a year (what the President earns by working for the American people) and your family and friends in recent years have already earned $1.4 billion via their affiliations with Saudi Arabia and the bin Ladens, "who’s your daddy?"

The most important aspect of this documentary will be its accuracy or lack thereof. Our research indicates that the film is essentially accurate, with the partiality being that Moore has a clear political agenda. The one area that is misleading is the implication that the bin Laden family was secretly flown out of the US without being interviewed during the time when all of our air space was closed after the attacks. The fact is they were interviewed by the FBI, although apparently not with the intensity of many being held in Guantanamo Bay. After some of the bans on air travel had been lifted, they were allowed to leave the country. The Bush and bin Laden family financial connection appears to be accurate.

Although some say that Iraq could become another Vietnam ¾ that’s unlikely. This war will not be as bad… or it will be much worse. Those that protest the military industrial complex (where big corporations collude with government to exploit the working classes at home and abroad for their financial and political gain) have a head start on the process because of independent films such as this.

Should the June 30^th turn over of power to Iraq be successful, the foreign policy of George W. Bush will be viewed as brilliant, in spite of not finding any WMD (weapons of mass destruction). No one can argue that things need to change in the Middle East or the future of the world will have many more life threatening problems than global warming and a political coupe here and there from time to time.