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michael moore. letter
to bush.
Friday,
September 2nd, 2005 Vacation is Over... an open letter
from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
Friday,
September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea
where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina
and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be
airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our
military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost
my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers
are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing
they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How
come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I
was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of
Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category
1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of
today, there were still homes without power. That night the
weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That
was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to
interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get
bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of
dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane,
instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party
with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for
this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck
could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't
listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you
specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for
New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just
tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those
levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix
them anyway because you had a much more important construction
job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3,
when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was
moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the
clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick
look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a
bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in
chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who
will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against
you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to
nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would
happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting
hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore
them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is
nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be
like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to
Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course.
It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in
poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get
out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this
happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white
people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race
has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in
there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army
helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New
Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com http://www.michaelmoore.com/
P.S.
That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your
ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead
are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities
along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they
get to DC on September 21st.
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