GUEST BLOG-- MICHAEL MOORE'S LETTER TO BUSH
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VACATION IS OVER
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 driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 7:17 AM
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This response is from my personal blog yesterday. I hope everyone reading this understands that what is happening in New Orleans amounts to nothing more than genocide. Leaving people to die without helicopter drops of food and water is abhorrent. Leaving police officers to die in the chaos is abominable. Leaving EMTs and Firemen to die because the people that are suffering didnt make millions and work in some ivory tower above an international city is beyond words.
Fuck you Bush and your KKK under New Management, the Republican Party.
---Creed
President Bush tells the people of LA. and MS. to take personal responsiblity for themselves. He said that anyone looting, no matter the reason, they should be held to the fullest extent of the law.
Both states, Louisianna and Mississippi, are predominantly black. They are decendants of those people used as slaves by the white people of the Confederacy over 150 years ago. For 100 years they were used as slave labor with limited rights and segregation. Today, a hurricane event sends the poor and the black, but mainly the poor black Americans back to their 1860s roots.
News cameras show scenes of masses of Black Americans, most civil and undisturbed, waiting however patienly they can in 95 degree heat and near 100% humidity levels, with no water and no food. The heat is causing people to become delirious. The hunger is causing people to become desperate. The thirst is driving people insane. This crisis is of epic proportion.
The LA. and the MS. governements are struggling to understand how to get these peoplem to safety. No other city or state with the exception of a few shelters in AL, GA., and TX., are taking victims. No state wants to afford the poor and down trodden. They don't want to acknowledge that there are so many poor people in America. This crisis is shoving the poor down our throats. The ravaged communities are forcing the rest of us to realize that there are many less fortunate poeple and the racist, bigotted Republican klansman want them dead. They don't want them in their towns. They dont want to acknowledge people are black and blacks are people.
This crisis is genocide. The government was supposed to be prepared. For over 100 years they were supposed to be preparing for the big hurricane. As it turns out, the government waited 3-4 days to assess damage before they get the ships and barges in to get people out. That means that over 50,000 people could be dead before the government even bothers to react.
Our troops are overseas not here protecting our people as they should be. Meanwhile the President goes from town to town for days while victims suffer, to tell the people of San Deigo and the troops that it is far more important to protect the people of Iraq than those of Louisianna and Mississippi.
As I write this I almost can't bring the words and the sense of anger to this screen because there are so many thoughts flowing through my head.
C3
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