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An Open Letter To Michael Moore

Dear Mr. Moore,
At a time in our nation’s history when countless numbers of people are homeless and dying as a result of Mother Nature, the last thing we need is an opportunist like you to lie and deceive the American people so that you can push a political agenda like you did after the 9/11 attack on this country.

You wrote your open letter to the President and as usual it was full of misstatements and outright lies. You wonder where all the helicopters are. In case you are unaware, the Guard does not have all the helicopters in the military. A large number of them belong to the active duty. However, to answer your question, according to news reports there were approximately 600 helicopters from all branches assisting in the rescue efforts. I doubt you are aware of it but helicopter rescue is time consuming and dangerous so it takes time to rescue people who, for the most part, are in a predicament because of their own personal choices.

Mr. Moore you ask where the National Guard is and claim they need to be at home to do what they signed up for and that being, according to you and your limited knowledge base, helping at home with natural disasters. Let me educate you. I and my fellow soldiers joined to do a lot of things with natural disaster aid being just one of them. We also joined to serve our country, IN ANY CAPACITY NECESSARY, while maintaining flexibility in our lives all the while realizing that we could be called to active duty. To put to rest another of your misrepresentations, and that being that most of the Guard is in Iraq or otherwise deployed. I know you did not directly say that but your words give that impression. This misdirection is what you are very skilled at and has allowed you to profit obscenely from movies like F9/11. Be that as it may, 66% of the Louisiana National Guard is in Louisiana. The Guard force of that state is about 11,500. According to the DOD and as reported by the media, only 3000 Guard troops from Louisiana are deployed. Therefore there are between 7000-8500 troops (depending upon availability) to respond to this incident. The States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida have a combined Guard strength of about 31,700 to assist in the disaster. Additionally, other states such as California and Maryland have committed Guardsmen to the effort. So as you can see, your argument is misleading, inappropriate, and designed to make fools believe you.

You make the claim that on Thursday weathermen said the storm was on the way to New Orleans and no one told the President so as not to interrupt his vacation. Once again you bloviate for political reasons with items that are not based in fact. The storm was actually tracked and not given much attention early on and then it was watched more closely. Everyone including the President was made aware of what was going on. The Federal Government is not responsible for evacuation orders of states nor are they responsible for putting a state’s emergency plans into place. Perhaps if you actually cared about accuracy you would ask why the Mayor of New Orleans did not issue an evacuation order until Saturday morning. Perhaps you should concern yourself with why state officials, those who are actually responsible, did not act earlier. Perhaps you would like to explain why you omitted the fact that the President declared a state of emergency on Saturday the 27th, prior to the storm, so that Federal Agencies could begin organizing a response. You neglected to mention these items because you are a partisan hack who likes to stir up ill will with half truths and outright lies. If you had any integrity you would have made the correct observations instead of the deliberately deceitful ones you wrote to the idiots who will believe you.

You then play your favorite weapon, the race card. You say that these people had no way to leave and they were left on their roof tops for 5 days because they were black. You seem to believe that the people who were left there were all unable to leave despite their own assertions that they should have left and that they made a conscious decision to stay. You say this would not have happened if they were white. You seem to forget that when given the chance in one of your earlier race baited musings, you made the claim that tough blacks would have stopped the hijackers of 9/11. Now you assert these though folks are the most needy and being abandoned. You want it both ways when you use race to further divide the country. You even make reference to the high poverty rate as if it is Bush’s fault. I guess you expect us to believe that poverty did not exist there prior to GWB taking office. It did but it took an idiot like you to point it out and make it appear as it were something new.

Mr. Moore, perhaps you would do us all a favor and save your mindless prattle for your weight watchers group therapy sessions and stop trying to further divide this country. You know, this is America and if you think you have all the answers then run for office. If you feel absolutely compelled to comment on this or any other situation then at least have the decency and be man enough to tell the truth. If you do not have the testicular fortitude to do that than just do us all a favor and keep you pie whole shut.

Cordially.
Big Dog
bigdog@onebigdog.net