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Movie director Oliver Stone criticises George Bush

Sunday, 01 October 2006

Movie director Oliver Stone criticises George Bush

Film director Oliver Stone has openly criticised President George Bush, saying he had "set the country back 10 years," and speaking at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, he condemned what he saw as the politicisation of the 9/11 attacks.

Oliver Stone, whose new film is about two men who survived inside the World Trade Center, said the "overreaction" to the 9/11 attacks had wasted resources, encouraged fanatics and made him "ashamed to be an American".

Ahead of World Trade Center's screening in Spain Oliver Stone said at a media conference: "From September 12 on, the incident was politicised and it has polarised the entire world.

"It is a shame because it is a waste of energy to see that the entire world five years later is still convulsed in the grip of 9/11."

And the director added: "It's a waste of energy away from things that do matter which is poverty, death, disease, the planet itself and fixing things in our own homes rather than fighting wars with others."

World Trade Center has received mostly good reviews in America.

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