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but his audience certainly leans that way:
The anti-Bush sentiment of the ruling elites in the Middle East is reflected in efforts to screen “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Michael Moore’s celluloid attack on the U.S. president. Last week, the mullahs running the Farabi Cinema complex in Tehran scrapped the season’s program to screen Moore’s “documentary.”“This film unmasks the Great Satan America,” a spokesman said. “It tells Muslim people why they are right in hating America. It is the duty of every believer to see [this film] and learn the truth.”
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“We may not be able to drive the Americans out of Iraq,” says Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader in Lebanon. “But we can drive Bush out of the White House by heating things up in Iraq.”