My mother asked me to post Michael Moore's Letter along with her response along the way. So here you go.
Robin
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.
[SIZE=21pt]I just heard tonight that 40 % of all Cost Guard Helicopters were down there rescuing people.[/SIZE]
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?
[SIZE=21pt]Ditto. 30,000 there by tomorrow. Can't move them all at once.[/SIZE]
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!
[SIZE=21pt]As usual, Moore's information is faulty, if not deliberately misleading. Pres. Bush ordered National Emergency preparations the day BEFORE the storm hit shore. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=21pt] The mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana sat on their hands. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=21pt]The mayor issued a mandatory evacuation and knowing, he had to know, there were sick, frail, poor people with no means to evacuate and should have ordered city and school buses to haul them to safe areas, thus saving 80 or 90 percent of the rescuing efforts AFTER the storm. It would have been a lot cheaper in money and lives too.[/SIZE]
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?
[SIZE=21pt]Party?? That's Moore, twisting things again.[/SIZE]
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 -- [SIZE=21pt]BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ! [/SIZE]
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.
[SIZE=21pt]Again, a play on words for which Moore is noted. Vacation!! Anyone who knows anything about the presidency knows that the president is NEVER on vacation. Where ever he is with all the trappings, hookups and anterage, is where the White House is.[/SIZE]
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.
[SIZE=21pt]If you want to believe the Global warming rot. The people who study hurricanes don't subscribe to the theory...and "theory" is all it is. Hurricanes of this force have happened before and will happen again. [/SIZE]
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.
[SIZE=21pt]Well, you've certainly got that right. Like I said before, that should have been done locally by the mayor and places arranged to recieve the people out of the storm,s path, by the governor. [/SIZE]
C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport.
[SIZE=21pt]What a rable rouser!! White AND black were caught and white and black are helping each other. The fact that more blacks were there couldn't have been because New Orleans population is 70% black could it, or is that too complicated an idea for such a little mind? [/SIZE]
Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days?
[SIZE=21pt]Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this! My white paramedic son is on his way to Mississippi, voluntarily, to do what he can to help ANYONE who needs it. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=21pt]What is Moore doing, besides yes, trying to politicise a national tragedy. The sorriest excuse for a human being. He lives the high life in New York and Florida, off the money he has made in the country he hates by lying to people and then cons them further by dressing like a working stiff when he is on camera promoting his radical schpiel.[/SIZE]
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
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www.MichaelMoore.com
