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To: steve harris who wrote (248959)	9/3/2005 10:32:41 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572171

re: What a crock Mr Partisan... It's not partisan, the issues transcend partisan.

To: steve harris who wrote (248959)	9/3/2005 10:54:15 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572171

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.

To: steve harris who wrote (248959)	9/3/2005 3:27:02 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572171

"it's all the big bad republican party's fault and not the democrats" Yup. Well said.

To: steve harris who wrote (248959)	9/3/2005 3:32:10 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572171

Thank you, Mr. Bush! ****************************************** September 3, 2005 1st wave of troops Ready for trouble, they found despair** Knight Ridder Newspapers NEW ORLEANS -- An Army dump truck carrying a heavily armed unit from the Louisiana National Guard rumbled down Convention Center Boulevard on Friday. First past a few families huddled in storefronts, then people napping in oily gutters. A shirtless man jeered as he walked past. A woman in a torn blue dress begged for a bottle of water. The soldiers approached their objective. Soda cans and candy wrappers covered the pavement to the horizon. A sweaty, writhing mass of humanity appeared in front of them as they pulled into a sprawling parking lot. "Good God Almighty," a soldier whispered under his breath. With that, the Guard's Special Response Team deployed in front of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. They were the first troops to arrive at the makeshift shelter where, for days, armed marauders had terrorized evacuees, and the unlucky had died in the streets outside. Securing a U.S. city The 40 guardsmen, trained to secure dangerous places, leapt from the vehicle and spread out onto the parking lot, their boots crunching on a carpet of empty water bottles. "We moved in first to secure the Superdome. Now our mission is to secure the convention center," Lt. James Magee explained. The soldiers came from towns across Louisiana. Most had been to Iraq or Afghanistan, but Friday was different. They'd never been called on to secure the lawless streets of a ravaged American city. The devastation had become apparent as the soldiers' truck stopped earlier at a staging area. A billboard had been torn away. Smoke from a fire billowed over the skyscrapers. It wasn't too different from Iraq. "It's unreal," Sgt. Carlos Rossell said. "But this is what we do." Looters disappear Armed with loaded automatic rifles, the soldiers pulled up to the convention center to a chorus of cheers and boos. A group of evacuees, prodded by the soldiers, relocated to the street, one elderly woman shuffling along painfully on a walker. They seemed happy to do so. The war-zone tension subsided. The looters weren't fools: They melted away. The rest of the people needed help. Guarded by the special response team, Army trucks began pushing abandoned cars to the edges of the lot to make room for food supplies. More National Guard troops arrived to begin setting up food lines. The soldiers assured the evacuees that medics were on the way. An hour later, as some sense of order began to take hold, the guardsmen ate instant Army chow. Later, the soldiers were scheduled to head out to patrol the streets. indystar.com