A LETTER ABOUT KATRINA

[soothsayer]

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

Orleans

and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours,

Michael Moore

[Msterbeau]

Um... this was posted in the "Politics of Katrina"thread Soothy.... :arrow

[Steven]

This is the kind of shit about Michael Moore that pisses me off.

Hes allowed his opinion, and in many cases I agree with the context of what he's trying to get accross - but he slants, uses derogatory verbiage to paint an emotionally responsive picture, and leaves out choice parts of the whole. He's a fucking propoganda machine just like so many others, yet he paints his "concerns" with a light that shows him as the only reasonable humanitarian on the planet while the rest of the leaders in Washington are hopeless bufoons.

I would love to see Michael Moore's fat ass on the perimeter with a weapon in his hand. Or see him bathed in a fellow soldiers blood while he tries to stop the bleeding. Or watch him hold the hand of a sore infested dying man with aids and pray for his salvation and peace while the room reeks of death and decay. Or have him balance the national budget.

Or let's let Micahel Moore's measurable insight solve the problem of systemic racism....obviously he's extremely concerned about the plight of the black man in America. And How bout them Native Americans Michael? Too Boring? Not enough press?

What happened in New Orleans is tragic, this is true.

And once again - our limited initial response and resolve in facing down this tragedy at its inception was tragic. This also is true. To lay it all at George Bush's feet however - is ridiculous. ANd to insinuate that George Bush (and I'm not even Bush supporter) left these people to die because they were balck is fucking absurd, and amounts to political/career suicide - its just nonsensical that this was intentional.

Fuck Michael Moore.

I am an american who did not ask for his voice.

I am a soldier who does not need his voice.

I am a minority who does not depend on his voice.