> I'm sure you will not find this amusing. Nevertheless, I'm forwarding it
> to you for your use. Maybe three years from now the country will
> remember this as they did when Mayor Lindsay didn't get Queens plowed
and threw
> out those bums.
>
> 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@...
> www.MichaelMoore.com