"Dear Mr. President"

[ZeZipster]

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
www.MichaelMoore.com


What does everyone think? I know Michael Moore is a bit beyond biased, but he does make a good point.

[Momiji]

While a lot of it is true, I really wish people would stop bitching at Bush. And by the way, I'm anti-politic......I hate it. Just so I don't have to choose between presidents, because you'll never know how they turn out. I'm sure Bush is doing his best to help the people of New Orleans. You just can't see what the media says and just think it's true.

[Skyblade]

Michael Moore. The guy who makes his living by getting together a pack of lies and trying to pass them off as documentaries. And you expect me to read his letter and take it seriously. Yeah, right.

[ZeZipster]

While I don't think Bush should be attacked either, I still think it's an extremely valid point about the war in Iraq. Yes, Bush couldn't have predicted the hurricane, and yes he's doing all he can. But the fact still remains that Bush exaggerated the immediacy of our problems in Iraq, which arguable can be non-existent and it did come to bite him back in the ass.

Bush deserves the loss in approval. But in no way should've been accused of racism.

[Yamaneko]

Seriously, this guy is an idiot. Especially towards the end when he starts to talk about how apparently Bush and Co. left thousands stranded because of their skin color. I really can't stand people who complain yet offer no solutions to a problem. Right now it's important to find solutions and not try to keep the Republicans out of office in '08. I'm sure we'll see another smear campaign documentary by Michael Moore about these events soon enough.

[Cloud No.9]

we all know that they were left not because they were black but because they were poor and that may be linked to being black. michael moore.

now is the time to complain and find blame. before it is white washed.

[Skyblade]

we all know that they were left not because they were black but because they were poor and that may be linked to being black. michael moore.

now is the time to complain and find blame. before it is white washed.

That's the correct thing to do here all right. I'd love to hear you go down and tell the people of New Orleans "Sorry, I'm too busy bitching at Bush to help out. I hope you can swim." Can I be a part of the lynch mob?

[Cloud No.9]

well being a few thousand miles away i wasn't going to help anyway. like most other people.

[Skyblade]

well being a few thousand miles away i wasn't going to help anyway. like most other people.

How does sitting on your @$$ and not doing a damned thing give you the right to bitch at people who are doing something? They're doing more than you.

Hey, let's all bitch at Cloud No.9, he's doing less than Bush!

[Cloud No.9]

but then again i'm not a democratcally elected leader of the richest and most powerful nation on earth. unless you want to start taking your orders from me don't expect me to do more than your president.

[Skyblade]

I expect you to bother to make an effort before you criticize people who are trying to help.

[Miriel]

Michael Moore is an obnoxious jackass. But I still agree with him on certain points. And it's funny that people are complaining about Moore turning this into something political when when the republicans rode 9/11 like a pack mule during the elections. You can't get much more exploitative than that.

[Flying Mullet]

The hurricane did not directly harm New Orleans. By Monday afternoon the hurricane had moved on it's way up into Mississippi, leaving New Orleans in the clear. People were celebrating in the streets that the hurricane missed them and that it was business as usual. It was after that that the levy broke and water started to slowly flood New Orleans. People were not evacuated because the engineers in charge of fixing the levy all thought that it would be fixed within a day and a couple of inches of water in the streets wouldn't hurt anyone, after all, New Orleans is below sea level and they're used to pumping water out of their city to keep it dry. After a couple of days did it become apparent that it wouldn't be fixed quickly and that the pumps weren't operating as intended to clear the city and by then the water had risen to dangerous levels.

I'm tired of everyone ragging about poorly this was handled in hindsight. I'm not a Bush person but when you follow the events you see that it was handled properly and only in hindsight was any of the planning wrong.

[Cloud No.9]

i got the impression that new orleans was hit by the hurricane. or may correctly the storm surge which broke the levvies.

[Rye]

The blame game doesn't actually do anything to help anyone so why play it?