Michael Moore's account of the Bush administration's response to the September 11 attacks opens with the disputed 2000 election and moves through the weeks after the attacks, when Saudi nationals including relatives of Osama bin Laden were flown out of the country while commercial air travel was still grounded. Moore traces business ties between the Bush and bin Laden families and Saudi royalty, then follows the buildup to the Iraq invasion, questioning the intelligence used to justify it. The film's second half turns to the war itself, spending time in Flint, Michigan, where Moore interviews military recruiters working class neighborhoods and a mother, Lila Lipscomb, whose son was killed in Iraq. Combat footage, congressional hearings, and news broadcasts are cut together with Moore's own narration and on-camera confrontations, including an attempt to get members of Congress to enlist their own children. The film became the highest-grossing documentary in American box office history and remains one of the most direct political arguments ever released as a mainstream film.