Talk about missing the point
In a piece ironically titled, "More Distortions From Michael Moore," Michael Isikoff, a well known liar, belts out this paragraph concerning the Bush/Carlyle connections detailed in Fahrenheit 9/11. Talk about missing the point.
Most importantly, the movie [Fahrenheit 9/11] fails to show any evidence that Bush White House actually has intervened in any way to promote the interests of the Carlyle Group. In fact, the one major Bush administration decision that most directly affected the company’s interest was the cancellation of a $11 billion program for the Crusader rocket artillery system that had been developed for the U.S. Army (during the Clinton administration)—a move that had been foreshadowed by Bush’s own statements during the 2000 campaign saying he wanted a lighter and more mobile military. The Crusader was manufactured by United Defense, which had been wholly owned by Carlyle until it spun the company off in a public offering in October, 2001 (and profited to the tune of $237 million). Carlyle still owned 47 percent of the shares in the defense company at the time that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld—in the face of stiff congressional resistance—canceled the Crusader program the following year. These developments, like much else relevant to Carlyle, goes unmentioned in Moore’s movie.
Earth to Isikoff: There's a huge war being fought in Iraq right now for no reason. There are no connections to terrorism, nor are there any weapons of mass destruction to be found. Bush, being the slimeball that he is, shamelessly used the murder of 3000 people to launch this war. Do you think that Carlyle is somehow not profiting from this pointless war? Is this not a point that Fahrenheit 9/11 tried making? Are you actually going to address the points of the film before you again try to claim that Moore is lying?

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