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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> maillist@michaelmoore.com
[mailto:maillist@michaelmoore.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> September 2, 2005 5:19
AM<BR><B>To:</B> phil.graham@uq.edu.au<BR><B>Subject:</B> Vacation is Over... an
open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P>Friday, September 2nd, 2005 </P>
<P>Dear Mr. Bush: </P>
<P>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.
</P>
<P>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? </P>
<P>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! </P>
<P>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? </P>
<P>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! </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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! </P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>Yours, </P>
<P>Michael Moore<BR><A href="mailto:mmflint@aol.com">MMFlint@aol.com</A><BR><A
href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target=_blank>www.MichaelMoore.com</A> </P>
<P>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 <A
href="http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50"
target=_blank>catch up with them</A> before they get to DC on September
21st.</P><PRE><BR>
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