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OCTOBER 1, 2005 |
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OCTOBER 1, 2005 |
LETTERS
September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush,
Any idea where 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 it's way to New Orleans.
That was Thursday!! Did anyone 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 the mothers of dead
soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, 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 the global warning 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 in 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
SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BIRD IS THE
MALE AND THE FEMALE
THE ONE WITH THE MOUTH MOVING is the FEMALE |
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