Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Narrator: In his first eight months in office before September 11th, George W. Bush was on vacation, according to the Washington Post, forty-two percent of the time.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore: [referring to the Saudis] Do they give you any trouble?
Secret Service Agent: Uh, no comment on that.
Michael Moore: Okay, I'll take that as a yes.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore: Meet John Ashcroft. In 2000, he was running for re-election as Senator from Missouri against a man who died the month before the election. The voters preferred the dead guy, so George W. Bush made him his Attorney General. He was sworn in on a stack of Bibles, 'cause when you can't beat a dead guy, you need all the help you can get.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Unnamed Voice-over: [following Bush's endorsement of the Coalition of the Willing] The Coalition of the Willing! Roll call!
Unnamed Voice-over: [featuring pictures of each nation - mostly children and simple folk] The Republic of Palau! The Republic of Costa Rica! The Republic of Iceland!
Narrator: Of course, none of these countries had an army, so it looked like

we'd be doing most of the fighting ourselves.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore: I couldn't believe that virtually no member of Congress had read the Patriot Act before voting on it. So I decided that the only patriotic thing to do, was for me to read it to them.
[scene switches to Moore driving around Washington D.C in an ice cream truck]
Michael Moore: [ice cream truck music plays] Members of Congress, this is

Michael Moore. I would like to read to you the USA Patriot Act.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Katie Couric: I just want to say, I think Navy SEALS rock.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

George W. Bush: [on Saddam Hussein] He hates the fact, like Al Qaeda does, the we love freedom.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Marine Recruiter: You ever thought about bein' a Marine, man?
Potential Recruit: Uh, thought about it, but I got a wife and kid now.
Marine Recruiter: Even more reason to join.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

George W. Bush: We wage a war to save civilization itself. We did not seek it. But, we will fight it. And we will prevail.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

[last lines]
George W. Bush: There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says: "Fool me once... "
George W. Bush: [pause]
George W. Bush: "... shame on... ".
George W. Bush: [pause]
George W. Bush: "Shame on you... "
George

W. Bush: [pause]
George W. Bush: "If fooled, you can't get fooled again."
Narrator: For once, we agreed.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Marine Recruiter: I'm sure you know who Shaggy is, right?
Kid in Parking Lot: Yeah.
Marine Recruiter: Do you know anything about him?
Kid in Parking Lot: Yeah, he's the Jamaican singer?
Marine Recruiter: How about a former marine.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

[Ober is the president of a company that makes armored vehicles]
Blaine Ober: Unfortunately, at least for the near term, we think it's going to be a good situation. Er, a dangerous situation. Good for business, bad for the people.

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Byron Dorgan: We had some airplanes authorized at the highest levels of our government to fly to pick up Osama Bin Laden's family members and others from Saudi Arabia and transport them out of this country.
Narrator: It turns out that the White House approved planes to pick up the bin Ladens and numerous other Saudis. At least six private jets and nearly

two dozen commercial planes carried the Saudis and the Bin Ladens out of the U.S. after September 13th. In all, 142 Saudis, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

[on Saddam Hussein]
George W. Bush: After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

[Michael Moore is interviewing citizens from Tappahonnock, Virginia, population 2,016]
Michael Moore: Is there any terrorist target around here?
Tappahannock Woman: [Gesturing towards the restaurant behind her] We have a big spaghetti supper in here.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

Narrator: [on Afghanistan being a part of the Coalition of the Willing] Afghanistan? Hmm... oh, yeah. They had an army. Our army! I guess that's one way to build a coalition: just keep invading countries.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

[TV host Larry King is interviewing Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan]
Larry King: [on Osama bin Laden] What were the circumstances under which you met him?
Prince Bandar bin Sultan: This is ironic. In the mid-80's, if you remember, we and the United States were supporting the Mujhadeen to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviets. He came to thank me for my

efforts to bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the atheists, in other words the Communists.
Larry King: And now he may be responsible for bombing America.
Prince Bandar bin Sultan: Absolutely.
Larry King: What did you make of him when you met him?
Prince Bandar bin Sultan: I was not impressed, to be honest with you.

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Fahrenheit 9/11

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: The targeting capabilities and the care that goes into targeting is...
[as Rumsfeld speaks, images of an Iraqi child having a portion of his head sewn back on appear onscreen]
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: ...is as impressive as anything anyone could see. The care that goes into it, the humanity that goes into

it...

Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11

Neil Cavuto: Am I slanted and biased? You damn well bet I am!

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Fahrenheit 9/11

George W. Bush: There are some who feel like that if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they are talking about if that's the case. Let me finish. There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring 'em on.