ok not rambling for hours on others' blogs now

Here's my comment from Elizabeth's blog:

Have you seen Farenheit 911? I thought it was really interesting, and I really liked it a lot. Yes, it's biased, and it does sensationalize, in a way. Sensationalizing means making something small into something big by scaring people or appealing to their sentimentality (like when people stop shopping at a particular food chain when Dateline or somebody finds some old meat there.......well that's my opinion too, some folks may say that's good journalism...). But is a war where 1,000 US troops, and as many as 20,000 Iraqi troops and civilians died, a small thing? Watching the troops talk about the problems they faced, and seeing their parents' grief was moving, and I know my buttons were pushed. But Moore sums up the film with a very vaild point, saying this: these kids come from some of the poorer homes in our country......they make the ultimate sacrifice - to go into a situation in which they may have to kill or be killed to fight for our freedom - and all they ask of us, is that we send them to war only when absolutely neccessary. The film may to be too narrow, too focused on a few individual lives - but haven't we seen and heard enough about the "big picture"? Isn't it time for less strategy/game-playing, and a little more humanity??