[lit-ideas] Michael Moore's letter to Bush
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:03:56 -0700
Début du message réexpédié :
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@xxxxxxx
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.
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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