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by billso on Sunday, 4 July 2004

USA: Con­nect the dots when you watch ‘Fahren­heit’: “Once Moore gets past his recount­ing of the Florida recount, I was pleas­antly sur­prised by how much I agreed with in the movie. For exam­ple, he’s very hard on the Saudis, and the unique access to the Bush fam­ily enjoyed by their oleagi­nous ambas­sador in Wash­ing­ton, Prince Ban­dar. He’s also very mock­ing of the absur­di­ties of post-9/11 air­port secu­rity, alight­ing on a poor mom forced to drink a beaker of her own breast milk in front of pas­sen­gers before board­ing in order to demon­strate the liq­uid wasn’t any­thing incen­di­ary. As we left, the cou­ple ahead of me said they thought Bush would have a hard job respond­ing to these shock­ing rev­e­la­tions. I didn’t like to point out they could have heard about all this stuff years ago just by read­ing yours truly. I men­tioned the breast-milk inci­dent in a col­umn Aug. 10, 2002. I called for Prince Ban­dar to be booted back to Saudi Ara­bia in Novem­ber 2002, and I’ve been urg­ing the dis­man­tling of the king­dom — Washington’s out-of-control Franken­saud mon­ster — for almost three years now, since within a month of 9/11.”

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