“the terrorist threat wasn't what this was all about. They just wanted...” – Narrator/Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11 ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from Fahrenheit 9/11 2004

Narrator/Michael Moore

the terrorist threat wasn't what this was all about. They just wanted us to be fearful enough, so that we'd get behind what their real plan was.

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Narrator/Michael Moore Immoral behavior breeds immoral behavior. George W. Bush My fellow citizens... At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war. Richard Clarke Donald Rumsfeld said, when we talked about bombing the al Qaeda infrastructure in Afghanistan...he said, "There are no good targets in Afghanistan. Let's bomb Iraq." And we said, "But Iraq had nothing to do with this." That didn't make much difference.