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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.

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The Motivation For War

Michael Moore

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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.

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Guarantees That

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Documentaries Are A Form Of Journalism.

Nobody Was Talking About Healthcare Until 'sicko' Came Out.

Clearly I Am A Person Who Suffers From A Lack Of Ego.

I'm Not A Pundit. I'm Not An Analyst.

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The Upper 1 Percent, The People Down On Wall Street, The Corporate Executives, They're The People That Control This Economy.

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I've Made A Lot Of Enemies In All The Right Places, And There Aren't Enough Hours In The Day To Respond To Either The Well-financed Corporate Hacks Or The Lowly Stalkers Who Seek To Libel Me Or Make A Buck Off The Fact That I'm A Well-known Person.

Hours In The Day

I Take Much Of The Attacks And The Criticism Toward Me As Being Very Class-based, But As Americans We Don't Like To Acknowledge That Reality.

I've Read Stories Of Slave Owners Who Were Very Generous. They Didn't Keep Them In Shackles, They Didn't Whip The Slaves, They Built Schools And Churches For Them, Free Housing, Free Food, Free Everything. It's Wrong. No Matter How Nice You Make It Look, It's Wrong.

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I Mean If Politics Was My Main Motivation I Would Be Doing Politics. But I'm A Filmmaker.

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The Purpose Of Art Actually Is, In Many Cases, To Make You Feel Quite Uncomfortable. Or At Least To Go To That Place That's Already Of Discomfort Inside Of You And Tap Into That.

I Think There Are Few Things More Patriotic Than Taking The Time To Make Your Country A Better Place.

All I Ask Is That You Not Be Naive About How The Government Works When It Decides To Go After Its Prey.

This Life Is A Gift, And To Reject That Gift Or Abuse That Gift Is Not Human And Not Worthy Of Us.

I Personally Hold Blair More Responsible For This War Than I Do George Bush. The Reason Is, Blair Knows Better, Blair Is Not An Idiot. What Is He Doing Hanging Around This Guy?

You Can't Regulate Child Labor. You Can't Regulate Slavery. Some Things Are Just Wrong.

The Products Built In The Factories Of G.m., Ford And Chrysler Are Some Of The Greatest Weapons Of Mass Destruction Responsible For Global Warming And The Melting Of Our Polar Icecaps.

Mass Destruction

If You Reduce The Guns And The Ammo, You'll Reduce The Murders.

We Live In The Time Where We Have Fictitious Election Results That Elects A Fictitious President. We Live In A Time Where We Have A Man Sending Us To War For Fictitious Reasons. Whether It's The Fictition Of Duct Tape Or Fictition Of Orange Alerts We Are Against This War, Mr. Bush. Shame On You. Mr. Bush, Shame On You. And Any Time You Got The Pope And The Dixie Chicks Against You, Your Time Is Up.

It Really Is Disgusting When A Guy In A Ball Cap With A High School Education Is The One Asking The Tough Questions.

Tough Questions

I Did Not Like 'the Hurt Locker.' It's A Lazy Way To Make A Movie, Frankly. I Could Put You On The Edge Of Your Seat Quite Easily, And Have You Feel The Tension For 2 Hours, If Every Other Scene Practically Is, 'should We Cut The Red Wire Or The Green Wire?'

Three Of The Top Six Documentaries Of All Time, Grossing, Are Made By Me.

Ask Anyone On Social Security If Their Check Comes On Time Every Month. Like Clockwork. And It Comes Through The So-called Dilapidated U.s. Mail. My Dad's Check Literally Will Come On The Same Day Every Month. The Government Has Been Quite Good And Efficient At Creating A Number Of Systems.

Hey, Here's A Way To Stop Suicide Bombings - Give The Palestinians A Bunch Of Missile-firing Apache Helicopters And Let Them And The Israelis Go At Each Other Head To Head. Four Billion Dollars A Year To Israel - Four Billion Dollars A Year To The Palestinians - They Can Just Blow Each Other Up And Leave The Rest Of Us The Hell Alone.

No Decisions Should Ever Be Made Without Asking The Question, Is This For The Common Good?

I Voted For The Black Guy, And What We Got Was The White Guy

I'm Not A Proselytizer. I Was Raised Catholic. I Am A Catholic.

If You're White, And You Really Want To Help Change Things, Why Not Start With Yourself?

Healthcare Should Be Between The Doctor And The Patient. And If The Doctor Says Something Needs To Be Done, The Government Should Guarantee It Gets Paid For.

I'm From The Midwest, And Guys Like Me Don't Go On Diets. We Don't Do Well On Spinning Classes.

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