The Budapest Sun Online - Hungarians debate Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11

The Budapest Sun OnlineA DEBATE of prominent Hungarian public figures into the film Fahrenheit 9/11 boiled down to some stark conclusions.

Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlap invited director Nimród Antal, Hungary's ambassador to the United States András Simonyi, and publicist-philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás to a discussion in Budapest after the screening of Michael Moore's award winning documentary. "A propaganda film made with sensationalist tools but with a noble goal: The war it protests against is a sordid affair that has to stop," said Tamás, who has repeatedly raised his voice in condemnation of the war on Iraq. "Moore's film does not correspond to my taste either, but as the Americans say, this dirty job had to be done by someone." Tamás argues that Hungarian soldiers on duty in Iraq must return to Hungary."