I read this and thought a few on the board might like it.
A letter from my favourite American (Mila Johovich isn't American is she?)
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[HTML_REMOVED] Monday, March 17th, 2003
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[HTML_REMOVED] George W. Bush
[HTML_REMOVED] 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
[HTML_REMOVED] Washington, DC
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[HTML_REMOVED] Dear Governor Bush:
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[HTML_REMOVED] So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and
[HTML_REMOVED] the rest of world have to show their cards on the table." I'm glad to hear
[HTML_REMOVED] that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived
[HTML_REMOVED] 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much
[HTML_REMOVED] more. So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few truths
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[HTML_REMOVED] 1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and Fox News
[HTML_REMOVED] aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this one. Walk out of the
[HTML_REMOVED] White House and on to any street in America and try to find five people who
[HTML_REMOVED] are PASSIONATE about wanting to kill Iraqis. YOU WON'T FIND THEM! Why?
[HTML_REMOVED] 'Cause NO Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has even
[HTML_REMOVED] threatened to do that. You see, this is how we average Americans think: If a
[HTML_REMOVED] certain so-and-so is not perceived as a threat to our lives, then, believe
[HTML_REMOVED] it or not, we don't want to kill him! Funny how that works!
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[HTML_REMOVED] 2. The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are not
[HTML_REMOVED] fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. We know what the real issues are
[HTML_REMOVED] that affect our daily lives - and none of them begin with I or end in Q.
[HTML_REMOVED] Here's what threatens us: two and a half million jobs lost since you took
[HTML_REMOVED] office, the stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their
[HTML_REMOVED] retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs two dollars a gallon
[HTML_REMOVED] - the list goes on and on. Bombing Iraq will not make any of this go away.
[HTML_REMOVED] Only you need to go away for things to improve.
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[HTML_REMOVED] 3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a
[HTML_REMOVED] popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr.
[HTML_REMOVED] Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them.
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[HTML_REMOVED] 4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope! But even
[HTML_REMOVED] worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does it have
[HTML_REMOVED] to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war? Of
[HTML_REMOVED] course, this is a war you personally won't have to fight. Just like when you
[HTML_REMOVED] went AWOL while the poor were shipped to Vietnam in your place.
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[HTML_REMOVED] 5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South Dakota)
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[HTML_REMOVED] stand up for America, please send your twin daughters over to Kuwait right
[HTML_REMOVED] now and let them don their chemical warfare suits. And let's see every
[HTML_REMOVED] member of Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids
[HTML_REMOVED] for this war effort. What's that you say? You don't THINK so? Well, hey,
[HTML_REMOVED] guess what - we don't think so either!
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[HTML_REMOVED] 6. Finally, we love France. Yes, they have pulled some royal screw-ups. Yes,
[HTML_REMOVED] some of them can be pretty damn annoying. But have you forgotten we wouldn't
[HTML_REMOVED] even have this country known as America if it weren't for the French? That
[HTML_REMOVED] it was their help in the Revolutionary War that won it for us? That it was
[HTML_REMOVED] France who gave us our Statue of Liberty, a Frenchman who built the
[HTML_REMOVED] Chevrolet, and a pair of French brothers who invented the movies? And now
[HTML_REMOVED] they are doing what only a good friend can do - tell you the truth about
[HTML_REMOVED] yourself, straight, no b.s. Quit pissing on the French and thank them for
[HTML_REMOVED] getting it right for once. You know, you really should have traveled more
[HTML_REMOVED] (like once) before you took over. Your ignorance of the world has not only
[HTML_REMOVED] made you look stupid, it has painted you into a corner you can't get out of.
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[HTML_REMOVED] Well, cheer up - there IS good news. If you do go through with this war,
[HTML_REMOVED] more than likely it will be over soon because I'm guessing there aren't a
[HTML_REMOVED] lot of Iraqis willing to lay down their lives to protect Saddam Hussein.
[HTML_REMOVED] After you "win" the war, you will enjoy a huge bump in the popularity polls
[HTML_REMOVED] as everyone loves a winner - and who doesn't like to see a good
[HTML_REMOVED] ass-whoopin' every now and then (especially when it 's some third world
[HTML_REMOVED] ass!). And just like with Afghanistan, we'll forget about what happens to a
[HTML_REMOVED] country after we bomb it 'cause that is just too complex! So try your best
[HTML_REMOVED] to ride this victory all the way to next year's election. Of course, that's
[HTML_REMOVED] still a long ways away, so we'll all get to have a good hardy-har-har while
[HTML_REMOVED] we watch the economy sink even further down the toilet!
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[HTML_REMOVED] But, hey, who knows - maybe you'll find Osama a few days before the
[HTML_REMOVED] election! See, start thinking like THAT! Keep hope alive! Kill Iraqis -
[HTML_REMOVED] they got our oil!!
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[HTML_REMOVED] Yours,
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[HTML_REMOVED] Michael Moore
[HTML_REMOVED] www.michaelmoore.com