What Tie?

The fine folks over at Stockholm Spectator have dug up the latest of Michael Moore’s lies.

At the end of F911 Michael Moore quotes Condoleeza Rice as saying, “Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11.” As usual, just like he did with the Charlton Heston speech in BFC, Mike plays fast and loose with the truth through the world of editing.

Pretty damning stuff, isn’t it? But that was the truncated, Michael Moore version. Now for the full, unexpurgated quote:

“Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.”

Well that’s a different quote, Mike. So why the editing?

Mike has taken a Condi quote and given it the polar opposite meaning from what she actually said.  Now, Moore fans, consider this.  There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of video of Condi Rice talking about Iraq.  If Condi had ever actually said that there was a tie between Iraq and 9/11 then Moore would have used it.  So, if the Bush administration had ever actually claimed that there was a connection between 9/11 and Iraq, why would Michael Moore feel the need to use these kind of editing tricks to try and prove his point?

Because nobody ever said it, and he damn well knows it.  His entire premise is based on a lie.