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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
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 Posted - 09/02/2005 : 13:15:05
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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@aol.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.
and you are ill prepared to fight
living in a world of soft and white
in air conditioned battle zones
I pity you!
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~
Belize
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 13:58:28
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Amen. I needed a laugh after all of this.
Here's my faveorite quote
"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 know there are much more serious issues, but now because of all this... it will take away attention from John Robert's conformation hearings.
"I ain't goin to be what I ain't" |
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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soyuber
- FB Fan -
USA
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 14:54:44
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haha. thanks for that letter. it is nice for a good laugh in such a sad time.
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 15:22:58
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Originally posted by Erebus
Oh yes, it's all Bush's fault.
i blame Canada |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 17:26:48
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Originally posted by Erebus
Oh yes, it's all Bush's fault.
http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2005_08_28.html#004749
It's not entirely his fault, but it seems like one of the worst natural disaters ever in the US was'nt enough to drag him away from his personal interests too soon. |
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hammerhands
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 17:55:30
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| He didn't want to appear to be a photo-op junkie like that bastard's father Clinton. |
Edited by - hammerhands on 09/02/2005 17:57:19 |
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hammerhands
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1594 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 18:15:27
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I don't know, the President can't do much on his own, he is vested with certain military powers at certain times but whatever needs to be done shouldn't have to come from the presidential position, it should simply be carried out now.
Unless he has a back-hoe, just the logistics of bringing a President to a war zone is an unncessary hassle. Is it going to help to bring him there? Most of the people would never know he'd come, they have no electricity. So he would make who feel better? He's the President, not a general.
"I give the president some credit on this, he sent one John Wayne dude down here that can get some stuff done, and his name is 'General Ornery' (Lt. Gen. Russel Honore)." |
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hammerhands
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1594 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 18:35:13
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| I just noticed that I don't get Fox News, but I'm still having a hard time being happy. |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 09/02/2005 : 19:32:10
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| Sky News keeps me happy/sad. 24 hour news channels are like drug addiction! |
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An Open Letter To George Bush (Michael Moore)
