Word: cuba
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...Moore is such a big fat target, metaphorically speaking, that he attracts attacks from swarms of ideological critics, thus bringing his message to more people. Last week, for example, the Treasury Department indicated it would investigate Moore for taking a trip to Cuba to check out Castro's medical system. (Guess what he found? It's better than ours!) Moore shot back with an open letter that claimed the Bush Administration was "abusing the federal government for raw, crass political purposes." It was his way of saying thank you for all the free publicity...
...September 2003, Major General Geoffrey Miller, commander of the secret U.S. detention center for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, visited Iraq to straighten out the prison. He recommended that the MPs should act not just as guards but as "enablers for interrogation." In November, a second visiting general advised the exact opposite, saying MPs should have nothing to do with interrogation. The conflict had apparently not been resolved by the prison's top brass when the photographed abuses occurred...
...it?s not always clear how fair Moore plays. His romanticized take on Canada?s single-payer health-care system is a few data points shy of a controlled study, and his decision to shoot part of the movie in Cuba made him the subject of a federal investigation, which may be precisely the p.r. gold he was after. Still, the film will surely get people talking, which is just what Moore wants - and just what he did in a wide-ranging conversation with TIME...
...TIME: You also speak rhapsodically about the French and Cuban systems and travel to Cuba, where you interview Che Guevara?s daughter. France, Cuba, Che. Are you going out of your way to annoy the right...
...Cuba, yes, when I?ve got a film crew there, they?re going to show us their best. But there?s a reason the World Health Organization ranks their health-care system [among] the best in the Third World and that people from Latin America come there for their health care. There?s also a reason Cubans live on average a month longer than we do. I?m not trumpeting Castro or his regime. I just want to say to fellow Americans, ?C?mon, we?re the United States! If they can do this...