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Accepting a lifetime achievement award on Saturdays Critics Choice Documentary Awards,Michael Mooretook care of some unfinished business.

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I never got to finish that speech, Moore said.

So if you wouldnt mind … Ill start with how I began, what you actually saw on television.

The full text of the speech was transcribed byIndieWire.

Its weird to think of a time when Hollywood wasnt monolithically against the president and the War on Terror.

But criticizing the war was still off limits in the flaggiest years of America.

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