REVIEW Filmmaker's latest work is just Moore Bush bashing

Despite the heavy subject matter, he manages to keep the book lighthearted.
By COLLEEN LONG
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Dude, Where's My Country?" by Michael Moore (Warner Books, $24.95).
Michael Moore is out for blood.
His new book, "Dude, Where's My Country?" lambastes the White House for just about everything: the Bush family's ties to Saudi Arabia, big corporations and oil, the war in Iraq and its aftermath, the tax cut, health insurance and the war on terror.
Moore's diatribe will gain support from just about any self-respecting liberal, but his brash, mocking tone gets old pretty fast. Also, there are times when the book seems like one giant pat on Moore's own back:
"I am writing this as best I can, as personally as I can, to each of you who read 'Stupid White Men' [more than 2 million Americans], each of you who saw 'Bowling for Columbine' [over 30 million of you] and all of you who have come to my Web site [over a million a day]."
Attacking Bush
In this book, Moore, who won a 2002 Oscar for his documentary "Bowling for Columbine," has written a manifesto of sorts for Americans to band together to ensure that Bush is defeated in 2004. And he gives plenty of reasons for doing so. He also suggests candidates to oppose Bush, including Gen. Wesley Clark and Oprah Winfrey.
In Chapter 2, called "Home of the Whopper" -- as in a big lie -- Moore picks apart several of the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 mantras, including "Iraq has chemical and biological weapons" and "Iraq has ties to Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida."
"The Bush administration had succeeded in perpetrating one of the biggest lies of all time, confusing Saddam with Osama in the minds of the American public," he writes.
The rest of the book follows suit, and Moore cleverly uses various sources -- including the Arabic TV station Al-Jazeera, Gallup polls and his proclaimed enemy, Fox News -- to support his point.
Despite the dire subject matter, Moore manages to keep the book lighthearted, as in one satirical chapter written ostensibly from God's point of view.
Moore seems to sincerely care about what's going on in America, and persuading Americans -- conservative and liberal alike -- to care about the information they receive is no small task. Using his get-up-and-vote cry to exhaustion, a determined Moore tries his best to bring about change.