[AGL] Michael Moore letter forwarded to me by Bev Veltman

[Michael Eisenstadt]

LETTER FROM MICHAEL MOORE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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  
 at 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 over near Tikrit.
  
 Yours,
  Michael Moore
 MMFlint at 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.