TY - JOUR T1 - Fahrenheit 9/11 JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 724 LP - 725 VL - 54 IS - 506 AU - John Frey Y1 - 2004/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/54/506/724.abstract N2 - Fahrenheit 9/11 Directed By Michael Moore Lions Gate Films 2004 The political messages in Michael Moore's film are framed like the game where one connects dots and pictures emerge. The pictures are ones that have, in part, been supported by the reports from the 9/11 Commission about ineptitude, at best, and incompetence all round in foreseeing and then dealing with the events prior to the World Trade Center destruction. The dots also connect the deceit, double speak, and disinformation that preceded and have continued right along in the US/British war in Iraq. And don't forget oil, the lubricant of world money and power, and of the Bush family's longtime financial relationship with the Saudi ruling family and the Bin Ladens, who, it seems, were whisked back home to Saudi Arabia on the only planes in the sky, other than US military planes, 2 days after 9/11.But I can't let go of the reality that I see the world as a doctor, and the scene that was most important and moving for me was a brief one in the rehabilitation unit of a Veterans' Administration (VA) hospital. A US serviceman who had lost both arms below the elbow tells the camera of the phantom pains he was experiencing and how upsetting they were to him, but how the docs gave him enough morphine to help the pain and … ER -