The heat is on

Saw Fahrenheit 9/11 over the weekend and was left with mixed feelings. There are so many shameful aspects about how the Bush administration led the U.S. and others to war that it was difficult for Moore to make a strong thesis for the film: it seemed to jump around a bit and not come to a strong conclusion. Nevertheless, Moore lets the people most affected do most of the talking: the soldiers, their families and the Bush administration. While we've seen or heard most of this stuff before, it's still impressive to learn how profit drove the invasion of Afghanistan, or see Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice deny categorically that Iraq had WMD in 2001, then state exactly the opposite two years later. Yet the film lets Blair gets off scot-free, while even Cheney and Rumsfeld get away with token rebukes.
The over-riding impression the film left me with is that if you're poor, no one will stand up for you. The poor bomb those even poorer than themselves to escape their own destitution; yet when they are disenfranchised, no one will take up their cause. Then when the rich need them, the poor defend them. Who said Marxism was discredited?