Michael Moore's Letter To George Bush On The Eve of War

[condodweller]

from http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Monday, March 17, 2003

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


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 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 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 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 our greatest thinkers and founding fathers -- Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, etc. -- spent many years in Paris where they refined the concepts that lead to our Declaration 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!!

Yours,

Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com

I notice he still refers to George as Governor Bush. :lol:

[57]

Having been compared to Michael Moore, at least once in the past, which I humbly appreciate, I'd like to add the following, which I also posted in another thread. (I can delete the other post if you like since it probably won't be read by many)

Since "W" was (not) elected, the following global issues have come to the table

1. When the countries of the world were ready to sign the Nuclear Arms Treaty, the USA stepped away from the table and said: "Screw You", we're doing what WE want.

2. While most of the countries of the world agree that Kyoto (CO2) should be ratified and even if global warming isn't a major issue in 50-100 years, energy conservation is a good idea, the USA stepped away from the table and said: "Screw You" we're doing what WE want. Our economy is worth more than any damn environment.

3. While all countries were prepared to sign a worldwide Toxic Chemicals Treaty, the USA stepped away from the table and said: "Screw You" we're doing what WE want.

4. While all countries were prepared to sign a worldwide Small Arms Treaty, the USA stepped away from the table and said: "Screw You" we're doing what WE want. We love our guns.

5. While all countries believed that the US "Defense Shield" was not in the best interests of global peace, the USA stepped away from the table and said "Screw You" we're doing what WE want.

6. While the US talks the talk on Free Trade, it cannot walk the walk. For example on recent worldwide discussions concerning Tariffs on Steel, the USA stepped away from the table and said "Screw You" we're doing what WE want, and erected huge trade tariffs on steel to protect the Republican voters in the "rust belt".

7. Again, on another Free Trade Issue (on Farm subsidies) in the worldwide meetings in Doha, Qatar, the USA stepped away from the table and said "Screw You" we're doing what WE want. The USA then introduced the Farm Bill (US$180 Billion massive subsidy) – gift to "Big Farm" in swing states to get the Republican vote (against Doha Policy).

8. On Softwood lumber trade with Canada, the USA stepped away from the table and said: "Screw You" we're doing what WE want and slapped huge tariffs on lumber coming from Canada. Now that the world courts have upheld Canada's claims, the US is still not repaying the tariffs.

9. SUVs – keep on trucking and burning that gasoline as fast as possible. Say, let's open up the sensitive ANWR for drilling, even though it only contains enough oil to fuel the US for 1-2 years.

10. After 9/11, the USA used the "you're either with us or agin us" talk to coerce favours from other countries. That was not necessary or appropriate, especially after so many countries had joined the fight against terrorism.

And that's only in the past couple of years. It must be wonderful to go through life with blinders on, so that everything is so nicely black and white.

Guess what, it ain't.

Edit 2007.06.07. My repeated use of "screw you" may have been ill advised at the time, however, the points are still valid today, along with many more since.

[SkiBud]

[quote="condodweller"]from http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Monday, March 17, 2003

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


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 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!

GUESS MIKE DOESN'T READ THE POLLS , COMPLETE LIE. ONLY THE HOLLYWOOD MILLIONIARES AND LIBERAL NUTTERS ARE AGAINST THE WAR. MIKE THE WAR IS NOT AGAINST THE IRAQI PEOPLE IT IS AGAINST THE REGIME - SHEESH . ONE THING IF FOR CERTAIN MIKE, IF BUSH DOES NOTHING IRAQI PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO DIE UNDER SADDAM. HE ALREADY KILLED OVER 2 MILLION OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS. THE IRAQI PEOPLE WILL BE DANCING IN THE STREETS WITH THIS IS OVER, THAT IS THE REAL STORY. IRAQI EXILES STATE THAT A QUICK WAR WILL BE THE BEST WAY TO ENSURE THE SAFETY AND PROSPERITY OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE - but what do they know right Mike ?

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.

STOCK MARKET HATES UNCERTAINTY, NOW THAT THE WAR IS ON THE ECONOMY WILL REBOUND , IT HAS BEEN GROWING MARGINALLY THE PAST FEW MONTHS , SO AGAIN PURE HOGWASH. 1 TEASPOON OF ANTHRAX SHUT DOWN THE US SENATE AND KILLED 2 POSTAL WORKERS, UN AGREED SADDAM HAD 8500 LITRES OF IT IN 1999. IF THIS IS NOT A THREAT TO THE WORLD WHAT IS MIKE !! OH RIGHT SADDAM SAID HE HAD IT BUT GOT RID OF THEM - RIGHT -SADDAM CAN BE TRUSTED.
Point is Saddam could have complied over the last 12 yrs ,even Blix admits they were not committed to disarm - how long you going to wait Mike .

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.

WRONG MIKE THE US PUBLIC IS BEHIND BUSH . WHOLE WORLD WILL BE RELIEVED WHEN SADDAM IS GONE AND THE VICHY FRENCH AND THE REST MADE SURE THE BAD OL' USA WILL TAKE ALL THE POLITICAL HEAT.


4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope! TOO DUMB TO COUNTER.

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!

THERE IS NO DRAFT - THE MILITARY ALL VOLUNTEERED AND ARE READY TO DEFEND EVEN YOU MIKE

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 our Declaration 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.

THE FRENCH ONLY HELPED THE US BECAUSE THE ENGLISH ALREADY KICKED THEIR BUTTS OUT OF NORTH AMERICA AND THIS WERE PISSED.
OH FRENCH INVENTED MOVIES , THAT EXPLAINS THE HOLLYWOOD CONNECTION. THE US WITH ITS ALLIES LIBERATED THEIR SORRY BUTTS IN WW2 AFTER THEY SURRENDERED FASTER THAN THE IRAQI MILITARY WILL. I GUESS THE FRENCH COULD TEACH THEM HOW TO SURRENDER - GOOD POINT.

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!

ECONOMY WILL REBOUND I AGREE BUSH WILL BE ELECTED TO A HUGE MAJORITY NEXT TIME. EVERYONE LOVES A WINNER.

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!!

SADDAM ALREADY KILLED MORE IRAQI'S THAN ANY US WAR WILL. TO SAY THIS IS ALL ABOUT OIL IS PLAIN NIAVE MIKE. The French got a better way to get the oil. They wanted the US to continue to contain Saddam while at the same time they made billions in Iraqi oil contracts. BUSH STATED THE OIL IS FOR THE IRAQI PEOPLE AND PROFITS WILL BE USED TO REBUILD IRAQ.

Yours,

Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com

MIKE I THOUGHT YOU WERE ALITTLE SMARTER

[travisc]

Hey, when Saddam was slaughtering all those people with chemical weapons, who was supplying him and innocently looking the other way when he used them? The US.

Another thing I appreciated from his speech last night... "Don't burn oil wells. Don't use poison gas." Hey, glad to see he's got his priorities straight.

[SkiBud]

Originally Posted by travisc

Hey, when Saddam was slaughtering all those people with chemical weapons, who was supplying him and innocently looking the other way when he used them? The US.


REBUTTAL

NUTTER LOGIC AS MIKEY WOULD SAY : remember the Iran hostage situation back in the 80's. Iran held US citizens hostage for almost 400 days. At the same time Iran attacked Iraq. So why wouldn't the US side and help Iraq. Makes sense to me.

MORE NUTTER LOGIC: The peaceniks also point out that the bad old USA helped arm Bin Laden back in the 80's. History proves why. The USSR was attacking Afganistan , it was the cold war and the US helped arm the freedom fighter's. Remember Rambo 2 ? Now the freedom fighter's morphed into the terrosist idiots.


Another thing I appreciated from his speech last night... "Don't burn oil wells. Don't use poison gas." Hey, glad to see he's got his priorities straight.

I AGREE BUSH HAS HIS PRIORITIES STRAIGHT. The Kuwait oil fires of the first Gulf War was an unprecedented environmental disaster even the peasceniks should remember that. Also if Saddam is dumb enough to use poison gas the US/UK troops will be protected, they got the best equipment. It is the Iraqi military and the innocent civilians downwind which will pay the price for Saddam's stupidity.

THANKS FOR POINTING THAT OUT :roll:

[james99]

Originally Posted by travisc

Another thing I appreciated from his speech last night... "Don't burn oil wells. Don't use poison gas." Hey, glad to see he's got his priorities straight.

Just because he listed these items in this order doensn't mean anything. Perhaps they were listed this way because the first item is more likely than the second.

Cut the guy some slack.

BTW, i'm not a Bush fan, not even close but i am a fan of any soldier who is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to preserve world peace.

[james99]

Michael Moore was on Bill Maher tonight, along with Jeanne Garafilo(sp?).

Interesting show.

[SkiBud]

Did anyone confront his nutter logic ?

[james99]

He wasn't there in person. The first guest of each show is interviewed by satellite.

Bill didn't agree with his speech. Jeanne was one of the roundtable panelists.

Michael was greeted with a mixture of applause and boos at different times.