We have had an other thread about Michael Moore in an other thread. He surely has a political motive and he has been caught more than once bending the truth or even lying. Saying this you should still balance the amount of claims and attacks he have made up against the number of people who try to discredit him and what they actually have on him. From the homepage in the other thread I found the list on Moore to be rather slim to make the conclusion that he is untrustworthy.

The part of Bowling for Columbine that I believe that Ejda was referring to was a list of military interference by the US since the Second World War. Moore surely put his own opinion as a layer over the whole movie but the fact still stand that a big part of the wars have been political and not always been for the better of the people.

With all this said about Moore and US wars I might have given the impression that I believe that the US military influense is 'evil' and this is untrue. I know that some people only understand the when weapons talk and that these people would be terrorising even larger parts of the world if we did not have a civilized country as the US with the largest firepower. In reference to the invasion of Iraq I believe that it will end up being for the better of the Iraq people as long as the world does not give up on the country before they are strong enough to fend off extremists on their own. If we leave Iraq within the next years I fear that they will be much worse off than they were with Saddam.

I better give my view on the question of this thread as well =)
I believe that the invasion might be against the UN charter... but this is just a battle for layers...
Even if the US broke the charter it would not have any consequences because the UN would not be worth much without the US. This might be a weakness of the UN but that does not change that it is the way it works in politics.

I have been reading this board for long enough to feel a need to add the following when posting on a political topic:
- What I post is my conclusions on what I have read. Like everyone else here my knowledge is nothing more than what I see, what I read and what others say to me… all mixed together to what I believe to be the truth.
- All the factual details are based on my memory and therefore probably a bit off... If you catch one of these please post a correction =)


Peter