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Vacation is Over...An Open Letter From Michael Moore to George W. Bush

From: www.MichaelMoore.com


Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:29:20 +0000

Vacation is Over... An Open Letter From Michael Moore to George W. Bush
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
www.MichaelMoore.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.


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A poem I put in another thread. It is not mine but I liked it.



A Visitor From The Past

By Thelen Paulk

From: http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/425.html

I had a dream the other night, I didn't understand. A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:

"We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny. For generations, this legacy we gave, In this, the land of the free and home of the brave."

"The Freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep, But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave, In this, the land of the free and home of the brave."

"You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun, Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in choosing how the money's spent."

"Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the state. You read about the current news, in a regulated press. You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S."

"Your money is no longer made of Silver or of Gold. You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our Nation, turn from God in shame. You've taken Satan's number, as you've traded in your name."

"You've given government control to those who do you harm, So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail, Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail."

"Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn. Your daughters visit doctors, so their children won't be born. Your leaders ship artillery, and guns to foreign shores, And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars."

"Can you regain the freedom for which I fought and died? Or don't you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride? Are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children, to live in fear and be a slave?"

"People of the Republic, arise and take a stand! Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land! Stop defending democracy, which can never stand! Preserve our Great Republic, and God-given Right! And pray to God to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright!"

As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not Free, we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants, trample each God-given Right, we only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.

If he stood by your bedside, in a dream, while you're asleep, And wonders what remains of our Rights he fought to keep, What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave: "Is this still the land of the free and home of the brave?"

Author Unknown TheRevolutionaryCoalition
 
An Open Letter to George Bush From Dr. Thomas Hansen, Aug 29, 2005

From: thansen103@aol.com

August 29, 2005

Dear PRESIDENT BUSH:

I just spent three days in and around your town of Crawford, and it was clear to me that there are many Crawford residents who are pleased to have you as a neighbor.

Your image and name and the signs supporting you and your presidency are certainly abundant. I had no trouble at all finding President Bush postcards to bring home with me, even one that details Laura's "Texas Cowboy Cookies."Â My wife and I plan to bake them at our house soon.

I didn't spend most of my time in Crawford, however. I was actually much closer to your ranch most of each day, standing and sitting alongside the road at Camp Casey, along with a few hundred other outsiders who came to support the message of Cindy Sheehan.

I talked to people from all over America who had come to be as close to your ranch as we were allowed, to give you the message that your time of isolation is over. You can stay holed up at the ranch, or in the White House, or in friendly gatherings of your supporters, but from now on you will have constant reminders, wherever you are, that we the people of America, the majority now, do NOT approve of the process you used to take the country to war, nor of your conduct of the war.

We do NOT approve of a President who lies to the people and to Congress and to the United Nations about the reasons for going to war, and then makes jokes about looking for WMDs under his desk, when American soldiers have been killed because you knowingly sent them to look for those nonexistent WMDs.

I'm writing you now because there is one aspect of your conduct of this war, and of your Presidency, that troubles me above all others. It is the God factor. Did you happen to hear about the sign that some of your supporters were displaying on the fence across the road from Camp Casey? It was neatly printed and I could easily read it from our side of the road. It said, "Perhaps it's Providence. Democracy is a prerequisite." Then there was scripture at the bottom, saying "And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world… Matt: 24:14."

I regret now that I didn't go across the road to ask your supporters what they meant by the sign. We were each pretty much keeping to our own sides of the road; the several Sheriff Deputies and the Sheriff's helicopter circling over us for hours, tended to make both sides think that we should stay put. But I just got home now and pulled out my Lutheran Confirmation Bible from1957 and looked up Matthew 24:14.

The full text in my Revised Standard Version says, "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come." Hey, wait a minute. Is this what some of your supporters mean, that when we have democracy in the whole world, guided by Providence, then the gospel of the kingdom can be spread to all nations, and then the end times can come, and then Jesus will return? Â Mr. President, what does this sign mean to you? Do you agree with it?

What do you think, Mr. President? Do you think you are on a mission to bring about the end times? And if so, what do you see as the trigger point, democracies in every nation? Or is Armageddon the trigger, as some Christians interpret the Bible? Lately you have been warning us about Iran's evil intentions more and more, just like you did before you invaded Iraq, so does this mean that Iran is to be the next democracy convert? I have heard some people warning you that if you invade or bomb Iran, you will be starting World War III.

I am wondering if the logical arguments against attacking Iran will have any effect on you and many of your supporters, because for you perhaps it is a win-win situation? If Iran is conquered and you make it a democracy, then the end times are that much nearer and Jesus will return that much sooner. But if your invasion of Iran is met with widespread resistance from Iran and in other Muslim countries, then you trigger WWIII, Â and once again the end times are that much closer.
 
Continued letter from Dr Thomas Hanson..


Do you believe what that sign across the road implies, that you are on a Holy end-times mission? I think this is a legitimate question to ask of you, since it appears that so many millions of your supporters believe that you are doing the Will of God.

For example, last fall in Washington I happened upon an event on the Mall, with the Capitol in the background, where thousands of attendees were being told by the speakers that they must pray for America, because America has sinned and was then punished with 9/11, and that America is for Jesus, and that they must vote for you for President again.

What do you think about their view of God's Will for America? Millions of them voted for you, so when you make a decision about invading the next country or not, do you feel any allegiance to their way of looking at "reality?"

In closing this letter to you, Mr. President, I just want to remind you that you can't hide from us. Hundreds will continue to be in the ditches near your ranch until you meet with Cindy or others, or until you go back to Washington. And on Saturday, September 24th, hundreds of thousands of us will meet at the Washington Monument at 11 a.m., to peacefully give you the demonstration that we are no longer willing to be quiet while you guide our beloved America into perpetual war and potential WWIII.

We want you to WORK WITH LEADERS and intellectuals WHO HAVE OTHER IDEAS than yours about how to remove the threat of terrorism from our country and the world. If you don't listen to us, then you can expect that eventually there will be millions of us near you wherever you try to hide, giving you no rest, for we are fervent for a peaceful world, and we will not let you thwart our desire for peace.

We will protest peacefully and NONviolently and in great numbers, until you change your mind, change your policy, develop a sensible and rapid exit strategy from Iraq, seriously look for the real causes of terrorism, and level with the people of America. Can you do that? If not, see you in Crawford.

Sincerely,

THOMAS HANSEN, Ph.D., Charlottesville, Virginia thansen103@aol.com

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