Two words: self-promotion. I doubt that Mr. Moore is all that concerned with the "truth" or "speaking his mind". He did not give a principled, reasoned argument against the war. He gave a few sound bites guarunteed to result in increased ticket sales to his movie. Isn't that what movie-making is all about? For all the talk of movies as some transcendent medium of conveying conviction and truth, they are still a commercial medium, bottom line. That is ultimately what is behind the Academy Awards - promotion. Why bother with the subtlety and ambiguity of issues of war when there's money to be made with an emotional tirade? "Shame on you, Mr, Bush! Shame! Shame!" he sounded like a lady at church I know, or my mother...

His "speech", if I didn't know the context, sounded like Mr. Moore was anti-Bush more so than anti-war. In fact, Moore is cynical enough that I would guess he is not principally anti-war, just anti-war-if-it's-pursued-by-a-Republican-president.