- Dear Mr. Bush:
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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!
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- 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?
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- Yours,
- Michael Moore
- MMFlint@aol.com
- www.MichaelMoore.com
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- 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.
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