DEVOID OF DECENCY

Michael Moore, a man of colossal proportions, has weighed in with his disgusting brand of misinformation to make political hay out of this colossal tragedy, Hurricane Katrina.

On his website, recently devoted to that grieving mother in a ditch, Moore writes an open letter to President Bush.
Letter

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.

This guy blows more wind than a hurricane.

Of course, the radical far Left extremists can't get enough of his biting "wit."

Generally, I find his distortions, nearly everything he says, to be inexcusably mean-spirited. I find his comments today, connecting the suffering from Hurricane Katrina with the Iraq war, to be especially vulgar, as well as false.

His snide letter proves how thoroughly devoid of decency Moore really is.

Moore completely dismisses reality to further his agenda. He twists, distorts, and lies--just like he does in his films--to construct a reality that conforms to his radical Leftist mentality.

His drivel is so obnoxious that I don't feel like spending the time to refute his idiocy, point by point.

One thing I do want to briefly focus on is Moore's comment about funding and the Army Corps of Engineers. Andrea Mitchell said today that the flooding could have been prevented if funding wasn't cut. It's a myth that those on the Left and their mouthpieces in the media continue to promote.NEW ORLEANS (KR) -- The levee system that protected New Orleans from hurricane-spawned surges along Lake Pontchartrain was never designed to survive a storm the size of Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday.

The levees were built to withstand only a Category 3 storm, something projections suggested would strike New Orleans only once every two or three centuries, the commander of the corps, Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, told reporters during a conference call. Katrina was a Category 4 storm.

...Strock said that despite a May report by the Corps' Louisiana district that a lack of federal funding had slowed construction of hurricane protection, nothing the Corps could have done recently would have prevented Katrina from flooding New Orleans.

"The levee projects that failed were at full project design and were not really going to be improved," Strock said.

...A fact sheet issued by the Corps in May said that seven construction projects in New Orleans had been stalled for lack of funding. It noted that the budget proposed by President Bush for 2005 was $3 million and called that amount insufficient to fund new construction contracts.

...Acknowledging delays in construction, Corps officials in Louisiana said that those projects weren't where the failures occurred. "They did not contribute to the flooding of the city," said Al Naomi, a senior project manager.

The levee projects were not designed to handle a category 4 or 5 hurricane. Based on projections of the chances of New Orleans being hit by such a strong storm, the levees were not constructed to handle a monster storm like Katrina.

Moreover, the areas that failed were at full project design. Project areas that were stalled due to lack of funding were not where failures occurred.

"They did not contribute to the flooding of the city," said Al Naomi, a senior project manager.
Back to the rest of Moore's letter to the President.

He covers all the usual bases we've come to expect from Moore.

Bush is a stupid, disinterested, detached, uncaring, warmongering racist.

This open letter is particularly hateful, even for Moore. It is beyond inappropriate for him to write this trash while the dead have yet to be counted.

It is unforgivable.