Our Disaster of a Leader

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Michael Moore to the Disaster President

By Michael Moore, September 2, 2005.

The controversial filmmaker pens an open letter to President Bush, criticizing him on his neglectful treatment of the Katrina tragedy.

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



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.

Michael Moore is an Academy award-winning filmmaker and author of "Dude, Where's My Country".

 

hahaha michael moore rules!

 

If this doesn't get Bush impeached.. it'll prove thst this country is out of the control of the people and we are under a dictatorship.

 

Scary shit. Three days ago, polls were soundly against Bush and were blaming the Administration for the lack of response to this disaster. Yesterday, in a Gallup Poll, 2/3 of the people surveyed said they placed "No blame but Mother Nature." WTF? Is Bush in some dark Black Magic Cabal?

I can't see how he CAN'T be blamed.

MM rocks.....

 

been there, done that.

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116077&page=1&pp=10

michael moore is a twat.

 

Thanks Skip!

 

Two years ago we gathered all across America to say no to war.

We were joined by people all over the planet who know that there is an alternative to war.

But war is about the only option available when the real motive is to steal natural resources that belong to someone else.

Or to restack the deck in the Middle East with today's generation of coups and assassinations, following the likes of the US 1949 ouster of Syria's elected government, the US 1953 ouster of Iran's elected government; US 1958 landing of Marines in Lebanon; and its 1963 support for a coup in Iraq after an assassination attempt against its leader failed.

The militarism we see today is nothing new.

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Even though some 14 countries have withdrawn their troops since March 2003, Bush tells the American people that he has no idea when US troops can expect to come home.


Sadly, many of them are being forced to take matters into their own hands. With filings for conscientious objector status, forced pregnancies, disappearances, seeking asylum in Canada, and leading rallies like this today all over America.

The American people, and our children over there fighting, still haven't been told the real reason the US is at war with the Iraqi people.


And against the people the US war machine has turned.


Thousands of Iraqis, especially children, have been killed by our sanctions and our bombs.

This is an immoral and illegal war and we need to bring our troops home now.

Instead, they lay the groundwork to expand the war and destabilize Iran, Lebanon, and Syria.

Destroying Iraq isn't enough for them.

Nor are the million men and women in our Armed Services enough for them.

The George Bush war machine wants you, too. And your children.

Everywhere you turn the Pentagon is denying it wants a draft while at the same time lamenting that recruitment is way down.

Mercenaries will increasingly be used to fight their wars with your tax dollars.

While reinstating the draft only feeds the war machine.


In fact, we need to get the military recruiters out of our high schools; they need to stop harassing our children, and the 1 billion dollars they spend on slick radio and tv spots and friendly neighborhood offices, ought to be put in the education budget so our kids can go to college without having to go to war first.


They tell us we're at war for democracy.

But that's a joke; George Bush came to power by stopping democracy at home--denying the opportunity to vote to blacks and Latinos in Florida.

They built on that fine record last year with hackable voting machines that don't accurately tally our votes.

And in countries like Haiti where democracy was thriving, they arrested President Aristide at gunpoint and forced him out of his own country.

While they purport to cherish democracy, they really have a disdain for it.

Democracy in Venezuela, India, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay has produced proud people willing to stand up to US imperialism, coup attempts, and destabilization of their countries. And the good news is that this resistance will spread.


The worse they are, the stronger we become.

And worse they will become because they've aimed their sights on Russia and China after they've balkanized the Middle East.

But one thing I guarantee to you and to them: we won't be fooled!

We know the truth. And we won't stop.

Stay strong, my brothers and sisters, we have a lot of work to do.

 

Skip, CNN (especially Anderson Cooper and that op ed dude, who always speaks his mind and gets railed for it, Jack Cafferty) has been reporting the drop in Bush's popularity, thank Heavens, but I haven't seen this anywhere else. The poll I was talking about was a Gallup poll where people were asked "Who was to blame for the poor response time in NO?" HOW could anyone say "no one."

I'm beginning to think Gallup is been infiltrated. I'l look more to Zogby from now on. Of course THEY are rarely mentioned anywhere in the US media.

Everyone I know, even the Conservatives is giving the Fed Gov a failing grade. (Of course there are a few assholes who are still clinging to the "why didn't thoes people just leave?" But you can't even talk to people like that. The idea that not every one had the means to get out is foreign to them.)

LOL! How does this much evil get so much power?

At least Brown got fired. (Or, in the Gov words "Taken off the case.")

 

YAY! But, damn, it took people long enough. It'll be a generation or more before all the damage he has done can even start to be rectified.

<sigh>

 

not only anderson cooper, but even Shepard Smith!!! from fox news.... you know how conservative that station is....... shepard smith was down in new orleans as well, and has spoken out against the government and the poor handling of the whole disaster

 

I have some hope that this tragedy will wake the minds of the TRUE conservatives, who are very different than the neo-con new world order folk. We need to come together like never before.

But as for Bush's popularity, he was never popular...except for the first several weeks after 9/11. On February 15th, 2003...little more than a month before the Iraq war even began, about 15 million people across the globe, with about 750,000 people in Manhattan alone (I was there) took the streets to protest against the war before it even began!! Of course the corporate media hardly reported any of it to the public.
The point is, Bush has had opposition to his regime since Day 1 of his rule. He was NEVER a popular president, regardless of what the polls said. As for the polls, I've heard 37%, thereabout, for the last 2 months, tho not on mainstream media of course.

 

No pictures (Like the Coffins from Iraq) of ANY OF THE DEAD in New Orleans!!!
We wouldn't want the polls to drop to what 5%???
Yes... I agree it is hard for familes and all ...BUT The Dead and the photos showing them Dead is part of that news and the story of what happened.
I guess we should not show any PHOTOS of the dead from any war?
Let's go burn every book of our Civil War too?
It's all Bull Shit and you can't hide the truth in that way.
Just another pill of Denial for the masses!!!

 

The only way towards change is TO politicize events. They don't even have to "be" policitized, they ARE the essence of politics. To ignore politics in it's true form is just blindness. "Politics" is just an immediate history.

I have seen some bodies on CNN, but they need to really shock people out of their "it can't happen here" mentality. It could be done tastefully, so that faces aren't shown. Or even if they are, that is the reality of the situation. The Bushit that no one important died needs to be swept away. The way our Government is run, "it" can happen anywhere. As long as our leaders don't care about the People.

 

I think this week they will find the main mass of dead under the deepest waters and it will also be blacked out to the public too.
I also think Bush will use all of this to justify adding more and more troops at home and abroad and then ofcourse The Draft!
I have spoken to many people who are getting ready to support the new Draft Dodgers that will be a result of that too. Many are setting up safe houses to shelter The Dodgers.
It's time to get together in support of them in the upcoming times.