Michael Moore's letter to Bush

[natrat]

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

[e-mail]

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 (

http://bringthemhomenowtour.org/ ). Maybe you can catch up with them before

they get to DC on September 21st.

[Independent_Liberal]

1. Kick!

[The Gunslinger]

2. That about sums it up.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. I Love Michael Moore.

He nailed it.