Editing Bowling for Columbine (section)

==="What a Wonderful World" montage===
The film cuts to a montage of American [[foreign policy]] decisions, with the intent to counter McCollum's statement by citing examples of how the United States has frequently been the aggressor nation. This montage is set to the song "[[What a Wonderful World]]", performed by [[Louis Armstrong]].

The following is a transcript of the onscreen text in the ''Wonderful World'' segment:

# 1953: U.S. [[Mohammed Mosaddeq#Plot to depose Mosaddegh|overthrows]] Prime Minister [[Mohammad Mosaddegh]] of [[Iran]]. U.S. installs [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah Pahlavi]] as absolute monarch.
# 1954: U.S. [[1954 Guatemalan coup d'état|overthrows]] democratically elected President [[Jacobo Árbenz]] of [[Guatemala]] [[Guatemalan Civil War|as part of a conflict]] that resulted in up to 200,000 civilians killed.
# 1963: U.S. backs [[Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem|assassination]] of [[South Vietnam]]ese President [[Ngo Dinh Diem]].
# 1963–75: The [[United States Armed Forces|American military]] kills 4 million people [[Vietnam War casualties|during the Vietnam War]].{{verify source|date=September 2022}}
# September 11, 1973: U.S. stages [[1973 Chilean coup d'état]] in Chile. Democratically elected President [[Salvador Allende]] [[Death of Salvador Allende|assassinated]]. Dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]] installed. [[Chile under Pinochet|3,000 Chileans murdered]].{{Verify source|date=September 2022}}
# 1977: U.S. backs [[Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador|military Junta]] of [[El Salvador]]. [[Salvadoran Civil War|70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed]].
# 1980s: U.S. trains [[Osama bin Laden]]<ref name="CIAtraining">See ''[[Allegations of CIA assistance to Osama bin Laden]]''.</ref> and fellow [[mujahideen]] to kill [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]s. CIA gives them $3 billion.
# 1981: [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration [[Iran–Contra affair|trains and funds]] the [[Contras]]. 30,000 [[Nicaragua]]ns die.
# 1982: U.S. provides billions of dollars in aid to [[Saddam Hussein]] for weapons to [[Iran–Iraq War|kill Iranians]].
# 1983: The [[White House]] [[Iran–Contra affair|secretly gives Iran weapons]] to kill [[Iraq]]is.
# 1989: CIA agent [[Manuel Noriega]] (also serving as [[List of Heads of State of Panama|President of Panama]]) disobeys orders from Washington, D.C. [[United States invasion of Panama|U.S. invades Panama]] and removes Noriega. 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.
# 1990: Iraq [[Invasion of Kuwait|invades]] [[Kuwait]] with weapons from U.S.
# 1991: [[Gulf War|U.S. enters Iraq]]. [[George H. W. Bush]] reinstates absolute monarch of Kuwait.
# 1998: [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] bombs possible [[Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory|weapons factory]] in [[Sudan]]. Factory turns out to be making aspirin.
# 1991 to 2003: American planes [[Iraqi no-fly zones|bomb Iraq]] on a weekly basis. [[United Nations|U.N.]] estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.
# 2000–01: U.S. gives [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan|Taliban-ruled Afghanistan]] $245 million in aid.
# [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001]]: [[Osama bin Laden]] uses his expert [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] training to murder 2,977 people.<ref name=CIAtraining/>

The montage ends with handheld-camera footage of [[United Airlines Flight 175]] crashing into the South Tower of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] on September 11, 2001, the audio consisting solely of the emotional reactions of the witnesses, recorded by the camera's microphone. On the website accompanying the film, Moore provides additional background information for this section.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bowling for Columbine : Library : What a Wonderful World |url=http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/bowlingforcolumbine/library/wonderful/index.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628131147/http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/bowlingforcolumbine/library/wonderful/index.php |archive-date=2009-06-28 |website=MichaelMoore.com}}</ref>