[news] Michael Moore to George W. Bush on the Eve of War

[Gordon Flett]

Subject: A Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush on the Eve of War

   Monday, March 17th, 2003

   George W. Bush
   600 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 cards on 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 two dollars a gallon -- 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 now and 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 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!). And just like with Afghanistan, we'll forget about
what happens to a country after we bomb it 'cause that is just too
complex! 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!! 

   Yours, 

   Michael Moore 
   www.michaelmoore.com