Reply #6: Some observations before I take a much-needed nap.

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This was a very hard film for me to watch. Though I already knew most of what Moore laid out, I found it quite harrowing to see those facts given a human face and presented to me uncensored on a full-sized movie screen.

Some parts made me sick to my stomach, like the footage of the dead, maimed Iraqi infant with a huge chunk missing from her lower arm. Other scenes reduced me to tears, like the one shot at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where Moore interviewed numerous soldiers--all of whom looked much younger than I--who had lost limbs in Iraq. To see those kids with bloodied, bandaged stumps where their arms and legs had once been was disturbing, to say the least.

But the most difficult segment for me to sit through involved Lila Lipscomb, a Michigan native who hated anti-war protesters and rallied around the president without question--until her son, a solider in Iraq, was killed in a helicopter crash. I dare any freeper, especially those with children, not to feel tenderness and compassion for that woman as she tearfully recites the last letter she got from her son before he died.

This ain't your typical smart-ass Michael Moore comedy. In fact, Moore himself rarely appears on screen, except for a segment near the end, in which he accosts random members of Congress to try to get them to have their kids enlist in the military and volunteer for duty in Iraq. But this film is NOT a comedy, because the story it tells is not funny at all!

As the closing credits rolled and a middle-aged couple walked up the aisle past me, I heard the woman say, "And they impeached Clinton over a blowjob."