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Dear Mr Bush
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Dont always agree with Mr Moore but sometimes he says the right things,,
like here,,,?
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
like here,,,?
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
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Making lots of money? To be honest I struggle to believe the benefits of socialism from somebody who's become a multi-millionaire by trading on the gullibility of his audience
And when Bush made him one of these Rich people he claims to hate?
Moore is a hypocritical twat.
ever read any of his books? The writing isn't that great but he is funny and insightful.
If you ever read his books would you describe him as a capitalist? I'm not sure he issued a press release on his political views, but a cursory reading of his books should give you a clue.
It goes to show what different perceptions we have of politics across the pond...
*very pissed tonight*
Anyone who isn't a republican or conservative is a "lefty" in the US it seems.
Which makes me wonder... why is their view so skewered?
There's still that "stigma" about daring to criticise the government and being branded a 'traitor' of sorts.
It always infuriates me to see what easy ride the President gets in America. The whole reverence about it. You'd think, gosh, if the man did anything like that in Britain he'd get eaten alive by the press. Yet he always gets an easy ride...
mostly because of the effective rightwing media.
Ever seen one of our "town meetings"? The audience is so closely screened it's like they're a bunch of cheerleaders.
I watched Blair have a talk session with some of your countrymen, he got eaten alive. I loved every minute of it...wish we could get some of that.
Fox does spring to mind...
Is the US really democratic in the way they try to enforce in places like Iraq? When their people at home don't even get that?
Hey at least you could string a sentence together..unlike mat