Posted by Phil on September 3, 2005, at 20:30:41
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
poster:Phil
thread:550459
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