Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images Before the president launched an unauthorized, unpopular war against Iran, there was another president launching a different unpopular war in the Middle East, 23 years ago. That time, Michael Moore used his acceptance speech at the 2003 Oscars ceremony to speak out about George W. Bush and the Iraq War —and he opened up about the intense backlash he received for doing so. A mixture of boos and cheers could be heard throughout the speech, which Moore told the New York Times this week. “We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it’s the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts, we are against this war, Mr. Bush,” he said after thanking the Academy for his win. Read more at The Daily Beast.