Followed by "One of the criticisms I’ve faced in making this film is for being British. But Tony Blair and President Bush are always very keen to remind us that we’re all in this war on terror together. 9/11 was an attack on American soil, but the consequences of the response to that have absolutely been global. They affect us in Britain as well as in the same way they affect Americans.”
And:
"I think the initial knee-jerk reaction was based on the notion that this film was in some way a piece of wish fulfillment, that it was some kind of liberal fantasy and that it would somehow celebrate in the assassination of President Bush. In actual fact, it is none of those things. It is a serious film which does not take the assassination of President Bush as entertainment. It takes it as the starting point for what I hope is some very serious questions about some issues that face us all, that have faced us all in the last five years.”
"I think it is definitely the case that a lot of things have happened in the last five years that we have every reason to be very alarmed about. I think they have been sort of absorbed into this notion of the War on Terror and the nation being at war. I think that has been used as a pretext to do things that probably we should be very alarmed about.”
He's a Brit talking about the toxic policies of the bush administration and how Blair willingly bought into it. Furthermore, he's not interpreting the U.S. Constitution.