George W is being portrayed in a new documentary centred around the tragedy that was 9/11. It wouldn't be so bad except for the fact he's using it to launch his Presidential campaign and inevitable Weapons of Mass Distraction. The upcoming Showtime feature "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis" is a signal advance in the instant, ongoing fictionalization of American history, complete with the president fulminating most presidentially against "tinhorn terrorists," decisively employing the word problematic in a complete sentence, selling a rationale for preemptive war, and presciently laying out American foreign policy for the next 18 months. "We start with bin Laden," Bush (played by Timothy Bottoms) tells his cabinet. "That's what the American people expect. . . . So let's build a coalition for that job. Later, we can shape different coalitions for different tasks." Scheduled for cablecast on September 7, DC 9/11 inaugurates Bush's re-election campaign 50 weeks before the 9-11 Memorial Republican National Convention opens in Madison Square Garden. DC 9/11 also marks a new stage in the American cult of personality: the actual president as fictional protagonist. Full article over at the Village VoiceUpdate: John at Doors of Perception has just informed me that "Michael Moore is making a movie about 9/11 that will be released before the election that US journos tell me will reveal some amazing (=bad for GW) stuff." Should make for an interesting fight ... more on Michael Moore here: http://www.michaelmoore.com/