I just got this in an e-mail I thought its pretty good and so god damn true....
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina andthousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need helpfinding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that adrag.
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 helpingwith 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 itwas pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were stillhomes 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 youdidn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to getbad 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 toLouisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don'tlet 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 youspecifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleansthis 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 Armyengineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more importantconstruction 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 youflew 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 useit against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond tonothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a stormlike this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming ChickenLittles. 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 toCleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percentof 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 notlike this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people ontheir 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 helicoptersand send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coastare near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael
MooreMMFlint@aol.comwww.MichaelMoore.com
P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. Sheand dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving acrossthe country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch upwith them before they get to DC on September 21st.