Dear Mr. Bush

[Rhiandra Rangnar]

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
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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.

[Phineas]

I didn't know Kanye West had an account here!

[Winke]

LMAO @ Phin

Winke

[Hall]

Stay The Course..........................


Fuck that

[Zoidmeister]

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.

That's the only thing that bugs me.

This guy was still on vacash when the shit was going down. Obviously he didn't give a shit.



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[Adida]

hey i can proudly say i didn't vote for him i have always thought he was a dumb ass. especially adding new vocabulary to our language because he doesn't know how to speak english. See kids this is what happens to c average students (yes he said himself he was a c average student)

[Adida]

this was posted in my bullitin board on myspace from an old friend of mine from hs. i reposted as bush the greatest pres ever......

1.First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
2.In his first two years in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
3.Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
4.Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
5.Cut the taxes of the wealthiest people in America (those making over $200,000 a year).
6.Members of Bush Administration are the richest administration in history.
7.First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
8.Cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
9.Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
10.Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases.
11.First president in U.S. history to attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
12.Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year, made the U.S. the most resented country in the world.
13.First U.S. president in history to have a majority of people in Europe (over 70%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
14.In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks, he has successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

[Beratuul]

He was a C student at Princeton. So, he was smarter then all of us put together, unless Law sucked his way through Brown.


2.In his first two years in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs. You can thank Clinton for this.


5.Cut the taxes of the wealthiest people in America (those making over $200,000 a year).

The wealthiest people also pay the MOST taxes. like 5% of the richest people pay over 50% of taxes.


6.Members of Bush Administration are the richest administration in history.

so? whats wrong with being rich?


9.Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.

Examples?
10.Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases.

Wars do that.
11.First president in U.S. history to attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

The U.N is a crock of shit. They are a waste of time and space. Everyone knows this. So why side with those douchebag French and German whores who had their thumbs up their asses?

12.Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year, made the U.S. the most resented country in the world.

I hate to tell you this.. but Clinton fucked up your foreign policy with Somalia.
13.First U.S. president in history to have a majority of people in Europe (over 70%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

Where are these stats from?


Don't believe everything you read on myspace.


And, Micheal Moore is a fucking faggot. He deserves to be shot. He has no interest in anything but in his own financial gain, and people suck his cock because they're fucking hippy democratic douchebags who are anti-bush.

You people need to stop blaming bush and start blaming your local and state goverments who dropped the bigger ball by not having any plan. Bringing in the national guard wouldn't have saved that many lives. You are talking about some of the poorest and least uneducated people in the country. Of course they are going to die, but the medias portrayal of the situation is a farce.

And, I'm a canadian. heh.

[Eirene]

I like Michael Moore and he does has some valid points in his "open letter".

I heard Moore is writing his next documentary based on the Hurricane relief.

[Sectoid]

Although some of his points may be vaild, when it comes down to it he doesn't care about getting the truth out, he cares about what will get him the most publicity and ultimately most money.

[Supreem]

i take everything moore says with a grain of salt... that being said

I think the Bush administration is the most corrupt administration that has been in office atleast as long as I've been alive. Bush's actions for are for the financial gain of his friends and family not the country. I believe he doesn't give a shit about the people.

Although it was commendable for him to admit that the federal government did a poor job responding to the Katrina disaster.

[Abysmal]

[Winke]

Bush is a failure but Michale Moore is a parasite. Not only is he a parasite but he is fat and ugly, the good news is he is due for a coronary hopefully on the posterior side of the heart with tougher intervention.

Winke

[Mourningblade]

Michale Moore is a white Al Sharpton.

Just looking for a cause to exploit and keep himself in the news.

The feds and bush are liable for mistakes made, but most of the blame should fall on the local and state Government of L.A.

Lastly, you can't be real surprised when a city below sea level floods......

[Hall]

I dont like moore to much but I wish bush would die seriously

If your black and get a C in college you cant Manage McDonalds If your White and have a C in College you can become the President!
"From some comedian but I found it funny"

I wont go into details because I just dont care enough about politics anymore but republicans are cocksuckers and democrats are pussies.

So yes bush doesnt like black people, or hispanics, or poor people etc.



That and the whole republican way of shitting on anyone who isnt a republican but when they fuck up its ok.

Case in point rush "Lets snort that good shit" Limbaugh

but whatever the whole debate is pointless.


I will say this it took 5 years to finally say these words
"I take Responsibility" its a start.