letter from michael moore to bush
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
> www.MichaelMoore.com
>
> 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
> www.MichaelMoore.com