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Bush Trying to Impound Moore's New Film
CAIRO — Bothered with firebrand director Michael Moore, the Bush administration is trying to confiscate the negative of his new documentary critical of the US health care and the powerful insurance lobby, the film's producer revealed Saturday, May 19.
"We had to fly the movie to another country," Harvey Weinstein told the Guardian newspaper.
"Let the secret service find that out - though this is the same country that thought there were weapons of mass destruction, so they'll never find it," said Weinstein, referring to the Bush administration's fake WMDs rationale to justify the invasion of Iraq.
He warned that if the film, titled "Sicko," was confiscated, there might be attempts to cut some footage, in particular the last 20 minutes, which related to a controversial trip made by Moore to Cuba.
"Sicko" premiered in Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.
The film focuses on exposing the dark side of the US health system and its powerful insurance lobby.
It flays the heath system that, Moore shows, leaves 50 million Americans without access to medical care.
Cuba Probe
In his documentary, Moore takes a group of ailing 9/11 emergency workers to Cuba where they receive medical treatment.
The Bush administration has opened a probe into the trip, which potentially breaches its laws restricting US citizens from visiting Havana.
"I don't know why the Bush administration is taking this action," Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted Moore told reporters after screening the movie at Cannes.
Moore had applied for permission to travel to Cuba in October 2006 but received no answer.
"It's hard to get into their heads about why they do anything...," he said.
In the documentary, Moore heads to other countries -- Canada, Britain and France -- to show how their national state-run health systems, often derided as "socialist" in the United States, offer a far superior level of care than the US one.
"This is an administration that flaunts the law, flaunts the constitution," said Moore.
"The point was not to go to Cuba, it was to go to American soil, to Guantanamo Bay and to take 9/11 rescue workers there to receive the same medical care given to the Al-Qaeda detainees."
Weinstein also blasted the investigation as politically motivated.
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"Let the secret service find that out - though this is the same country that thought there were weapons of mass destruction, so they'll never find it," said Weinstein, referring to the Bush administration's fake WMDs rationale to justify the invasion of Iraq.
He warned that if the film, titled "Sicko," was confiscated, there might be attempts to cut some footage, in particular the last 20 minutes, which related to a controversial trip made by Moore to Cuba.
"Sicko" premiered in Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.
The film focuses on exposing the dark side of the US health system and its powerful insurance lobby.
It flays the heath system that, Moore shows, leaves 50 million Americans without access to medical care.
Cuba Probe
In his documentary, Moore takes a group of ailing 9/11 emergency workers to Cuba where they receive medical treatment.
The Bush administration has opened a probe into the trip, which potentially breaches its laws restricting US citizens from visiting Havana.
"I don't know why the Bush administration is taking this action," Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted Moore told reporters after screening the movie at Cannes.
Moore had applied for permission to travel to Cuba in October 2006 but received no answer.
"It's hard to get into their heads about why they do anything...," he said.
In the documentary, Moore heads to other countries -- Canada, Britain and France -- to show how their national state-run health systems, often derided as "socialist" in the United States, offer a far superior level of care than the US one.
"This is an administration that flaunts the law, flaunts the constitution," said Moore.
"The point was not to go to Cuba, it was to go to American soil, to Guantanamo Bay and to take 9/11 rescue workers there to receive the same medical care given to the Al-Qaeda detainees."
Weinstein also blasted the investigation as politically motivated.
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