Letter to Mr Bush

[Xmetal]

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

[hobbes28]

Anyone that decides to post a reply in this thread, be extremely cautious before you click submit that this does not turn into a political/racial debate. I must be in a generous mood to even allow this to stay as is but just remember to be cautious.

[Meysha]

I really like these sorts of letters as jokes and for poking fun at people. But I hate Michael Moore with a vengance.

funny read.

[Meysha]

hehehe... aubrey i must've been typing while you were. As if I could ever be political anyway...

[Luminosity]

I think Jon posted the link to this a few days ago.

I got a chuckle out of it.

[thebeginning]

Quote: Originally Posted by Meysha

I really like these sorts of letters as jokes and for poking fun at people. But I hate Michael Moore with a vengance.

funny read.

ditto.

[ksmattfish]

As long as there are folks like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, there will be folks like Michael Moore and Al Franken, and I think it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. The "left" is just borrowing the plays from the "right". I don't blame any of the 4 guys I mentioned for the bull**** they spew. I blame the American people for believing it.

[Artemis]

LOl Micheal Moore rocks...

[Meysha]

Quote:

LOl Micheal Moore rocks...

Quote: Originally Posted by hobbes

Anyone that decides to post a reply in this thread, be extremely cautious before you click submit

Grrrrrrrrrr!!

[Artemis]

:O!

[Chase]

I'd love to see less talking from all of these people and more helping...whether it be Bush, Michael Moore....etc.

Tragedies like these end up being more of a politcal show than anything else...

[terri]

Quote: Originally Posted by Chase

I'd love to see less talking from all of these people and more helping...whether it be Bush, Michael Moore....etc.

Tragedies like these end up being more of a politcal show than anything else...

Agreed. Even if there are valid points to be made, best these people not come off sounding too much like they are taking advantage of a tragedy to bash someone with whom they are at odds. It does little but further their own agenda, and no one has time for that right now.

[Karalee]

Man, people need to stop pointing fingers and freakin help OUT!

['Daniel']

1. I doubt Michael Moore can do much to help.

2. Why do people not like/"hate" Michael Moore?

[Meysha]

I don't like his style of "journalism". It's unfair, biased and he always manages to twist whatever he finds to suit himself. (bit of tortology there) And I just find him annoyingly rude as well.

but each to their own.

['Daniel']

Oh I agree totally but he is just does what the news groups in AMerica do except in the other direction. I swear tis like American news channels are afraid to criticise the President or even as it seems on CNN report of any people totally unrelated to the Channel from criticising him.

So I think hes cool in a way because he gives contrast. Both sides are dangerous for many if seen without the other.

His films are funny though

[Artemis]

Watch bowling for collumbine...to be honest he's a real hero what he tried to do in that film...I think hes a very good person...yes he goes too far, but like the UK, I think most countries need a kick in the face...

[tmpadmin]

Quote: Originally Posted by Artemis

Watch bowling for collumbine...to be honest he's a real hero what he tried to do in that film...I think hes a very good person...yes he goes too far, but like the UK, I think most countries need a kick in the face...

hmm? I am not going any further than this but 1/2 of that movie was made up of lies. He spliced two speeches together so President Bush said what he wanted him to say. One thing that bothers me about Moore is he always criticizes but never gives a solution or at least a reasonable solution.



"but like the UK, I think most countries need a kick in the face..." I do NOT disagree.

[Artemis]

Fair enough TMP, glad we're able to discuss such a sensitve subject without getting nasty
But you big meany...hehe

I still stick with him, even if the film may have been made of lies, a girl died of guns, and he managed to get guns out of wall mart.
If you can name one thing a gun can do, that nothing else can, that doesnt involve scaring or killing...then maybe Ill agree lol.

[ShutteredEye]

Some people need a lesson in how this country actually works.

Google search for the last time a state was federalized.....

And find out who mobilizes the Army National Guard.

Then come back and talk about Bush's lack of response.

My point is this. While I have compassion for those that have lost family members, and homes, and belongings, lets take a realist look at this:

They CHOSE to live in a city that is 8 feet below sea level. On a coastal region that has a WELL documented history of MAJOR hurricanes. They had several DAYS notice that this storm was heading their way, and even after it intensified to a 180mph monster, they STILL had more than 18hrs before it made landfall.

20% of the population of New Orleans remained behind. From the interviews I've seen so far, it's been "Well, we made it through Camille with no damage, and we thought that's the worst that things could be."

Don't even get me started on the conduct of those that have remained behind.

And before you get fussy about me pointing fingers and not helping out, I'm actually on the way out the door to go volunteer at Reunion Arena and Dallas Convention Center, where about 15K evacuees are staying right now. Just part of the 230,000 that Texas has taken in so far, with thousands more arriving by the day, sometimes hour. What has your state done?