Saturday, Sept. 03, 2005 9:04 A.M.
Another country heard from I am not a fan of Michael Moore. I have only rad about him in peoples diaries. I have not watched Fahrenheit 911. I know some people live him, some hate him. I have no opinion. Terry found this while reading his newspapers (The Mirror) this morning. I just think it expresses many of our views quite eloquently. I stole it from Michael Moore. Com
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3 September 2005
MICHAEL MOORE: DEAR MR BUSH
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 per cent 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 [email protected]; 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.
I really don�t want to be a Monday Morning Quarterback, but hell�s bells, Does the phrase �Too little, too late� ring a bell? IMHO, The National Guard should have been dropped by helicopter into the Super Dome as soon as the winds died down. Infants, elderly and injured/ill should have been medi-vacked out within the first hours after that. This should have happened before anything else. Then food and water should have been delivered and as they dropped supplies, they could have taken bunches of the stranded before all the chaos broke out. Yes, I am sure I am all wrong and there is a good reason this wasn�t done. I am sure there will be answers and excuses. There always are. I would like the answer to one other thing too. Why did/is it taking so long to rescue the people from rooftops? I don�t know. I am sure there is a reasonable explanation for that too. Sure. Again, seriously, it is easy to sit in my nice comfortable home in RI and say what should have been done. It is easy to place blame even though I don�t have all the facts. It is very simple to state how easy a plan could have gone. But I don�t have all the facts. I don�t know much and sure don�t know everything, but I would like to. We will see in the coming months. Just to end this on a brighter note, this was in the Diaryland news section this morning.
�starting on the Tuesday after the long weekend, DiaryLand is moving to a new office and will be offering phone and instant messenger tech support, as well as some other neat additions coming. This should be pretty great, more news on it to follow.� All things come to those that wait�� But tell that to our neighbors in the south.
Oh, and the gas? $3.29 last night.
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