Moore blasts Bush

At the Cannes film festival, controversial US film-maker Michael Moore presented Sicko, a harsh look at America's deficient, privately run health system, and took potshots at President George Bush.

"This is an Administration that flaunts the law, flaunts the Constitution," Moore said, as he blasted a US Government probe into a trip he made to Cuba for the film.

"The point was not to go to Cuba, it was to go to American soil, to Guantanamo Bay, and to take 9/11 rescue workers there to receive the same medical care given to the al Qaeda detainees," he said.

Sicko depicts US politicians, including Bush, as having been bought off by big business.