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Letter from Michael Moore
You
hang in there, Mr. Bush
Pretend the people of New
Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit
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
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.
posted 2 September 2005 |
