NP Michael Moore

[Doug Millison]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/2001_0919.html

excerpts:

"Posted 09.19.2001 [...]
I know we are all supposed to be supportive of Mr.
Bush, at the moment, but has it dawned on anyone that
he is not, in fact, the “president?” I hate to bring
up a thorny subject, but this is the man who lost the
election. He got the least number of votes between the
two major party candidates. His brother oversaw a
rigged vote in Florida.  I am so, so sorry to bring
this up now, but the tragedy of the past week is
EXACTLY the kind of horrible circumstance many
Americans feared we’d find ourselves in -- A NATIONAL
CRISIS UNDER A LEADER WHO IS NOT THERE BY THE WILL OF
THE PEOPLE. It is a tribute to the goodwill of the
American public that they have rallied behind George
W. Bush as best they can, ‘cause he and his fake
flight jacket is all we got right now in the Oval
Office. [...] Nearly a week with no stock market, no
commercial television, no professional sports, three
days with no planes in the air (for the first time
since 1911), no airports open, the country essentially
shut down. A week later and the phone lines still
don’t all work. A boxcutter, folks! Do not be misled
into thinking he with the biggest missile is going to
win this “war.” [...] When does this end? After we
have killed every terrorist? When exactly is THAT
scheduled to happen? Or is it just when we kill Osama
bin Laden, then we win the war? Are you serious? We
couldn’t even assassinate Hitler during a massive
World War that lasted 6 years! [...] There is a
different way to go, and I will lay it out in a later
letter, but to simplify it for now and put it in a
nutshell, it goes like this: 
One billion people on this planet have no clean
drinking water. Two billion have no electricity. Three
billion have never made a phone call from their home.
We have the money and the people-power to alter ALL of
this. We also have the moral imperative to stop
supporting repressive regimes and corporations who
exploit these people. 
When we decide to help improve these billions of
people’s lives, we will pull the rug out from under
the terrorists who need those they send to their
deaths to be poor and exploited and angry at us. The
multi-millionaire bin Laden isn’t going to give up HIS
life! 
When all the people in the Middle East have food on
the table, a decent home, a good job, and democratic
control over their own lives, who among them is going
to be convinced to sacrifice his life by crashing
himself into a tall office building? [...]"

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