Since this is my first entry, I feel compelled to write about myself. However, no one really wants to read about my life... The fact is that I’m only a college student full of opinions and ideas and even if no one reads this I want to put my views out there. There being here on the Internet among the millions of other “bloggers” out there. Or should “there” be “here”?   No matter…

The only item on my agenda for today is President Bush and the movie Fahrenheit 9/11. I recently saw the movie and was very disturbed. I am almost embarrassed to say that I am American, or rather that we allow George W. to represent America. I read an article in the MSN news that had results from a poll taken in Hungary and here are the results:

The survey of 34,000 students, aged 16-18, from 655 high schools showed  

 Adolf Hitler was the most disliked foreign personality with 25 percent of

the vote, followed by Bush with 23 percent and Bin Laden with 16 percent.

Does Bush seem like he should be out of place in a poll like this or is it just me? Is this the guy we actually voted into office? Or was the 2000 election just a really big scandal? Fahrenheit 9/11 is by far Michael Moores’ best documentary yet. I read in Time that the “former chief of fact checking” at the New Yorker magazine checked all the facts presented in this movie for inaccuracies. He insisted that all the facts are true and is offering a $10,000 reward for anyone who can prove them wrong.

As for an earlier statement I made on being “embarrassed” to be an American, I stand firm with the statement. While the war was being brought up and being protested in the U.S.A., I was living as a foreign exchange student in Germany. Nearly every weekend I was warned to stay inside, rather than go downtown to the bustling city of Munich, because the protesters against America going to war were so passionate they were worried for our safety. Seeing the way America was portrayed to Europeans was disturbing. I, as other Europeans, was presented with facts as to why America had no reason to go to war. Americans, as I had learned in Moore’s film, were presented with biased facts and scared into war.

Although I do not agree with any part of this war, I do respect most of the Americans who have gone to war to fight for our freedom. However, I’m still unclear as to how Iraq was threatening our freedom when they had no nuclear weapons and had no chance of getting a nuclear weapon. Why was America so afraid of Iraq and why do we only have Suddam Hussein (who never hurt us) and not the Osama bin Laden that we were promised?