The over-optimism of Fahrenheit 911

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber, having just seen Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, finds the movie far too rosy in depicting the war in Iraq.

I finally went to see Fahrenheit 9/11. I won’t give a review as I don’t have much to add to what lots of others have already said. What struck me about the film is how much worse things have become, and how much more has come out, in the time since the film was made

Gee, Michael Moore must be a shill for the Bush Administration, putting rose-colored glasses on the populus.