Michael Moore has a right to voice an opinion; a right that our fine men and women in our military have died to give Americans.

It is important that if we feel our president is doing the wrong thing, especially with the lives of our military, we speak up. We can support our troops, but don’t have to support the Bush agenda. “Fahrenheit 9/11” does just this. Mr. Moore’s goal is to call attention to the shame of needless deaths. People should be mad about this war, not at a man sharing his opinions. We entered this war for the stated purpose of neutralizing an imminent threat of weapons of mass destruction, not to force Iraq democracy as the current plan dictates.

No one can say that the Bush administration has done things intelligently. Moore did when he hired the head of fact-checking at The New Yorker. The movie highlights the wrong information, the astronomical deficit, missing memos, prison abuse, withholding of information, the crumbling environment, health care and prescriptions out of reach for many and the rebuilding of Iraq, with all the deaths connected to it. “Fahrenheit 9/11” offers an alternative to our mainstream media’s watered-down version of truth. We need to reflect on what is going on and where this country is going.

George Bush is not the answer. Give him four more years, and he will do with America what he has done with all of his other past businesses: run it into the ground.

Michael Raymond, Buckfield

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