Thursday, September 08, 2005

A Letter From Moore To Bush

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 drivingacross the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50 before they get to DC on September 21st.

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