Ahhh, that Michael Moore, he's so silly

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 th! is 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 stor! m 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.


just a bit of a segue...but i was just informed that Depeche Mode's new single "Precious" is out...and it's real good. i'm gonna check it out right now. ta.