moore dedicated the film to his friend who was killed in the world trade center attacks and to those servicemen and women from flint, michigan that have been killed in iraq: "michael pedersen, brett petriken and all the soldiers from the flint area who have died in the iraq war ... bill weems and the 2973 who died on 9/11/01 ... and the countless thousands who have died in afghanistan and iraq as a result of our actions."