Philadelphia Inquirer | Fire starter

Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/21/2004 | Fire starter: "When President Bush called on Americans to 'finish the work of the fallen' in Iraq, he did not reckon that filmmaker Michael Moore would answer.
Moore has more than answered. He has responded with a vengeance in Fahrenheit 9/11, a blistering polemic that charges the administration with aiding war profiteers in Iraq while failing its soldiers, and was reportedly conceived expressly to drive Bush from the White House.
No, no, that wasn't the main objective, corrects Moore by phone from New York, where he's readying Fahrenheit for its national rollout on Friday.
'The primary goal was to make a good movie,' explains the director, whose documentary won top honors at the Cannes Film Festival last month.
'The secondary goal: the complete and entire removal of the Bush family and their associates from Washington come November.'

If President Bush is worried about Fahrenheit 9/11, it's not apparent. Early this month, a Paris Match reporter asked him how he felt when Moore's film won at Cannes. Bush - in France for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion - said, "I didn't pay any attention to it."

Come Friday, attention will be paid."

BY CARRIE RICKEY
Philadelphia Inquirer Movie Critic

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