Michael Moore's letter to Bush

[Livia]

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@...
> 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.
>