September 02, 2005

An open letter to President Bush

I don't always agree with Michael Moore, but his open letter to President Bush covered all the same points that I am frustrated about.


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 Michael at 10:12 PM | Comments (0) | Politics

September 01, 2005

Touched by Bush's Reaction to New Orleans?

If you are touched by President Bush's reaction to the New Orleans disaster, don't be. I'm sure he hopes no one notices, or remembers, that he chose to divert the funds needed to protect New Orleans from such a disaster to an extremely foolish war on a country that was no threat to the US at all...

Oh, and by the way... the Louisiana National Guard that should be part of the rescue operations and should be protecting against the looters are also currently in Iraq, on President Bush's orders.

Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen? - Yahoo! News

Anyone getting angry yet...???

Posted by Michael at 12:39 PM | Comments (0) | Politics

August 21, 2005

If there's anyone around that still believes this...!!

...then I'm shocked!! Unbelievable! Is there anyone in the U.S. that still believes that Iraq was a threat to our country?? Certainly there is no one in the rest of the world that believes it! If there is anyone in this country that still believes it, they must have their head so buried that their eyebrows are getting scorched from the earth's molten core...

Bush invokes Sept 11 to defend Iraq war

Posted by Michael at 08:15 PM | Comments (0) | Politics

January 24, 2005

I couldn't agree more

I happened upon this article by Peter Schrag, columnist for the Sacramento Bee. I have to admit, I too am surprised by what seems to be our "national stupidity."

You can read this article in its entirety on the web at: Goodbye to 2004, another year of living stupidly.

Here is an excerpt:

Peter Schrag: Goodbye to 2004, another year of living stupidly

One of the blessings of having been around a long time is
that in any dark moment of our national life you can usually
think of another moment that, if you put your mind to it,
seemed almost as dark or maybe darker: McCarthyism, Watergate,
the disaster of Vietnam.

But never in the memory of the living generation have the errors, falsifications and unreason of policy come in such rapid and overwhelming succession that each buries its predecessor before it's even partially absorbed, much less understood.

Posted by Michael at 09:50 PM | Comments (0) | Politics

January 19, 2005

Over 85% of nations surveyed have grave fears about Bush

The following article indicates that I'm not the only one concerned with the direction our United States of America is going over the next four years: World fears new Bush era - Guardian Unlimited.
The fact that public opinion is turning against Americans in general is not very heartening either.

Posted by Michael at 08:51 PM | Comments (0) | Politics