A Letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush

Or as Natalie Maines puts it, by way of introduction... "You don't 
like the sound of the truth / Coming from my mouth /
You say that I lack the proof / Well baby that might be so / I might 
get to the end of my life /
Find out everyone was lying / I don't think that I'm afraid anymore 
say that I would rather die trying."

This part of the "Fourth Estate" ie. blog world ain't skeered a no 
Bushes. Interesting to compare what the USA corporate press allows vs 
other studied and popular opinions.  Pretty obvious that if you want 
to see who/what steers the ship of state in this country all you have 
to do is follow the money.

-T

Thursday, June 26, 2003

http://www.michaelmoore.com
I Never Promised You a Ruse Garden -- A Letter from Michael Moore to 
George W. Bush


June 26, 2003

Dear Lt. George W. Bush,

I hope you don't mind me referring to you by the only true military 
rank you ever achieved, that being the one from your on-again, 
off-again "days" in the, um, Texas Air National Guard. Ever since I 
saw you in that flyboy outfit, landing on that ship, I assumed you 
now wanted to be addressed by your military title, as opposed to the 
civilian rank imposed on you by your dad's friends.

So, Lieutenant, I was wondering, would you do me a favor?

Could you PLEASE do better than a ROSE BUSH?

I saw the guy on TV yesterday that your boys found, the Iraqi who 
said he had "planted" some nuclear plans in his "back yard" in 
Baghdad -- 12 years ago -- "under a rose bush."

Woo boy. That's a good one. Do you really think we are as dumb as we 
look? I know our fascination with "American Idol" and Scott Peterson 
may make us Americans look a little light in the head, but when it 
comes to lying to us to lead us into war, we really do demand a bit 
more of an EFFORT and a FOLLOW-THROUGH.

You see, George, it's not the lying and the doctoring of intelligence 
that has me all upset. It's that you've had control of Iraq for over 
two months now -- and you couldn't even find the time to plant just a 
few nukes or vats of nerve gas and at least make it LOOK like you 
weren't lying to us.

You see, by not faking some evidence of weapons of mass destruction, 
it shows that you thought no one would mind if it turned out you made 
everything up. A different kind of president, who believes that the 
American public would be outraged if they ever found out the truth, 
would go to great lengths to cover up his subterfuge.

Johnson did it with the Gulf of Tonkin. He said our ships were 
"attacked" by the North Vietnamese. They weren't, but he knew he had 
to at least make it LOOK like it happened. Nixon said he wasn't "a 
crook," but he knew that wasn't enough, so he paid hush money to the 
burglars and somehow had 18 1/2 minutes erased from a tape in the 
Oval Office. Why did he do this? Because he knew the American people 
would be pissed if they found out the truth.

Your blatant refusal to NOT back up your verbal deception with the 
kind of fake evidence we have become used to is a slap in our 
collective American face. It's as if you are saying, "These Americans 
are so damn apathetic and lazy, we won't have to produce any weapons 
to back up our claims!" If you had just dug a few silo holes in the 
last month outside Tikrit, or spread some anthrax around those 
Winnebagos near Basra, or "discovered" some plutonium with that stash 
of home movies of Uday Hussein feeding his tigers, then it would have 
said to us that you thought we might revolt if you were caught in a 
lie. It would have shown us some *respect*. We honestly wouldn't have 
cared if it later came out that you planted all the WMD -- sure, we'd 
be properly peeved, but at least we would have been proud to know 
that you knew you HAD to back up your phony claims with the real deal!

I guess you finally figured that out this week. It started to appear 
that millions of us were calling you on your bluff -- those 
"fictitious reasons for the fictitious war." So you quickly produced 
this man and his rose bush and some 12-year old piece of paper and 
some metal parts. CNN broke in at 5:15pm and screamed they had the 
exclusive! "IRAQI NUCLEAR PLANS FOUND!" But a few good reporters 
started asking some hard questions -- and, barely 3 hours later, your 
own administration was forced to admit the plans were "not the 
smoking gun" proving that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Oops.

Never a good idea to rely on a bush, Lieutenant.

Yours,

Michael Moore

www.michaelmoore.com

PS. Sorry, I still can't get that padded flyboy suit out of my head. 
I know, I need help. But when you landed on that carrier, and that 
banner read, "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED," just what mission was that that 
was accomplished? 'Cause by my count, more than 50 of our young 
soldiers have been died since you said the mission was accomplished. 
Anarchy still reigns, the Brits are losing kids, too, and wacko 
fundamentalists now seem to ready to rule the land. Women are already 
being told to cover their face and shut their mouths, store owners 
who sell liquor have been executed, and movie theaters showing 
"immoral" Hollywood movies have been forced to shut down. And hey, 
this isn't even west Texas! Maybe you could get back into that 
jumpsuit, fly over to Baghdad and land at the former Saddam 
International Airport, jump out and give one of those big happy waves 
-- under a sign that reads, "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE."

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