Michael Moore did an interview in Japan. It comes off more as though it was from another planet. This stuff is, as Jonah pointed out the other day, not just figuratively childish, but literally childish.

Q: What do you think is the reason for the war?

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. The U.S. government claims to bring democracy to Iraq; however, no country in the world takes such an assertion seriously. It is an illusion.

Q: What do you think of Bush?

He is simply a puppet. Behind him, neo-conservative aides such as Rumsfeld or Cheney are controlling him. They are imitating what the Reagan administration did under the campaign of building a "Strong America."

Read the whole thing, if you can stomach it. It's almost self fisking.

Link is broken as it is...you need to take the ' " ' character off of the end.

For the record, I do believe that there are/were intelligent arguments against the war in Iraq. However, it's clear that Michael Moore will not be making any of them, now or in the future.

A letter to the editor of the paper which interviewed Moore called him a phoney. I believe, to paraphase Dennis miller, that is an insult to phonies everywhere. Moore is such a rich sourse of lunacy to ridicule that if he did not exist we would have to invent him. By the standards of veracity that his award winning "documentary" set, the Oscar committee should retroactively award an Oscar for "documentary" to Stone's "JFK".