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Thu 20 Mar, 2003 11:22 am
George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC
Dear Governor Bush:
So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and the rest of world have to show their cardson the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more. So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few truths I would like to share with you:
1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and Fox News aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this one. Walk out of the White House and on to any street in America and try to find five people who are PASSIONATE about wanting to kill Iraqis. YOU WON'T FIND THEM! Why? 'Cause NO Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has even threatened to do that. You see, this is how we average Americans think: If a certain so-and-so is not perceived as a threat to our lives, then, believe it or not, we don't want to kill him! Funny how that works!
2. The majority of Americans -- the ones who never elected you -- are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. We know what the real
issues are that affect our daily lives -- and none of them begin with I or end in Q.
Here's what threatens us: two and a half million jobs lost since you took office, the stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs almost two dollars -- the list goes on and on. Bombing Iraq will not make any of this go away. Only you need to go away for things to improve.
3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them.
4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war? Of course, this is a war you personally won't have to fight. Just like when you went AWOL while the poor were shipped to Vietnam in your place.
5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South
Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed forces! If you really want to stand up for America, please send your twin daughters over to Kuwait right nowand let them don their chemical warfare suits. And let's see every member of Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids for this war effort. What's that you say? You don't THINK so? Well, hey, guess what -- we don't think so either!
6. Finally, we love France. Yes, they have pulled some royal screw-ups. Yes, some of them can be pretty damn annoying. But have you forgotten we wouldn't even have this country known as America if it weren't for the French? That it was their help in the Revolutionary War that won it for us? That our greatest thinkers and founding fathers -- Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, etc. -- spent many years in Paris where they refined the concepts that lead to ourDeclaration of Independence and our Constitution? That it was France who gave us our Statue of Liberty, a Frenchman who built the Chevrolet, and a pair of French brothers who invented the movies? And now they are doing what only a good friend can do -- tell you the truth about yourself, straight, no b.s. Quit pissing on the French and thank them for getting it right for once.
You know, you really should have traveled more (like once) before you
took over. Your ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid, it has painted you into a corner you can't get out of.
Well, cheer up -- there IS good news. If you do go through with this war, more than likely it will be over soon because I'm guessing there aren't a lot of Iraqis willing to lay down their lives to protect Saddam Hussein. After you "win" the war, you will enjoy a huge bump in the popularity polls as everyone loves a winner -- and who doesn't like to see a good ass-whoopin' every now and then (especially when it 's some third world ass!).
So try your best to ride this victory all the way to next year's election. Of course, that's still a long ways away, so we'll all get to have a good hardy-har-har while we watch the economy sink even further down the toilet!
But, hey, who knows -- maybe you'll find Osama a few days before the
election! See, start thinking like THAT! Keep hope alive! Kill Iraqis -- they got our oil!!
Michael Moore
OOOPS
Frolic, sorry, I must have missed your post. BBB
Have you seen Moore's speech on the oscars?
Michael Moore Will Help Bush Win Again
Michael Moore Will Help Bush Win Again
Bush Watch - 3/25/03
Now that we all got our ya-ya's out by watching Michaele Moore take Bush over the coals with his explosive anti-Bush war protest at the Academy Awards the other night (I was standing in front of my TV, cheering him on.), let's get real. Unless Michael Moore changes his tune, he will share the responsibility for helping Bush win four more years to further plunder this country, destroy the environment, and take away our rights and freedoms. And I, for one, don't see Moore changing his tune, since he's made a cottage industry out of stroking those third party folks who are willing to see this country go down the drain rather than support the Dems, the only political party that will be capable of defeating Bush and his Repug thugs in 2004.
Michael Moore's STUPID WHITE MEN, published in 2001 after Gore's defeat, has become a best seller, a money maker for Moore and his
publisher, but even though it is generally seen as a screed against Bush and his party on our right, the fact is that Chapter Ten, DEMOCRATS DOA explains why he does not support the Democratic Party. Indeed, in the Epilogue he describes how he campaigned for Nader in Florida, ensuring the Supreme Court selection of Bush. Nader is on record as saying he wanted Bush to win because the country would be more miserable under Bush than under Gore, thereby allowing the later election of more Green candidates.
Here's Moore: "By election day [Nader polled] 1.6% of the vote. But that represented 97,488 Nader votes in Florida. Would at least 538 of those voters [have] changed their vote if they had known on November 7 that their specific votes were the ones that would make the difference? Of course they would." (p. 254) Then why didn't Moore tell that to Flordians when he campaigned for Nader? Bush Watch reported what was going on, as did the Dems, the Republicans, the pollsters, and the media. Everyone knew every vote counted. Except, Moore would have us believe, those who voted for Nader. Nonsense. And although the Greens have said otherwise, if Nader had withdrawn, enough Naderites would have voted Gore to have made the difference. But that's all water under the bridge. What does Moore plan to do in 2004? He's going to help Bush win again, that's what.
At the end of the Prologue to the book Moore shifts from mockery to rant, trying to have it both ways but ending the book on a serious note: "So yes, WE denied you the White House. WE tossed your ass out of Washington. And WE will do it again. We have over 900 campus green
associations..." etc., etc. etc. This is a growing movement....There are millions of people who have had it with the Democrats and Republicans and want a real choice..." And so on. Moore knows his audience. He knows he's not going to back the Dems to save our country from four more years of Bush. And their are enough believers on the left willing to follow him away from the dirt of compromise poitics into the light of idealistic fundamentalism, secure in their knowledge that they did not compromise their values, even though they helped Bush win. Once Again.
But, hey, life goes on. And in 2005 Michael Moore will write another funny political screed that will make the New York Times bestseller list. And his agent, who happens to be Rush Limbaug's agent as well, will help to set up another tour while Bush continues doing what he's doing to our nation.
--Jerry Politex, 03,25,03
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