Michael Moore Under Fire From Disabled Iraq War Veteran

Now here’s a soldier who’s taking the war to Michael Moore and speaking the only language he’ll ever understand - big, fat litigation. heh heh

A double-amputee veteran of the Iraq war is suing filmmaker Michael Moore for $85 million, claiming Moore used an old interview with the G.I. to make him appear anti-war in his movie “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Sgt. Peter Damon, 33, who strongly supports America’s invasion of Iraq, said he never agreed to be in the 2004 movie. Damon lost his arms when a Black Hawk helicopter exploded in front of him.

In the 2003 interview, which he did at Walter Reed Army Hospital for NBC News, he discussed only a new painkiller the military was using on wounded veterans, the New York Post reports.

“They took the clip because it was a gut-wrenching scene,” Damon said. “They sandwiched it in. [Moore] was using me as ammunition.”

According to the lawsuit filed in Suffolk County, Mass., Damon seems to “voice a complaint about the war effort” in the movie.

But he told the Post: “I was complaining about the pain I would’ve been having [if it weren't for the painkiller].

Newsman Brian Williams ends the NBC clip by adding, “These men with catastrophic wounds are . . . completely behind the war effort,” according to the lawsuit. That part wasn’t shown in the Moore movie.

Good. Take him for every cent you can, Sgt. Damon! We’re behind you 100%!!!!

UPDATE 6/1: additional news coverage with a few more details.

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