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Moore: Brief an Bush
Donnerstag, 20.03.2003

Michael Moore hat am Vorabend des Krieges einen offenen Brief an George W. Bush verfasst. Bereits durch seinen äußerst mutigen amerikakritischen Film Stupid White Man erregte Moore weltweites Aufsehen.
Der Brief beginnt: Dear Governor Bush: Heute soll der Tag der Wahrheit sein, der Tag, an dem Frankreich und der Rest der Welt ihre Karten offen auf den Tisch legen müssen. Ich freue mich dass zu hören, denn da gibt es ein paar Dinge die endlich geklärt werden sollten...

Der komplette Brief im Original:

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. Im glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasnt sure if I could take much more. So Im 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 WONT 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 dont 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. Heres 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 wont 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 lets see every member of Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids for this war effort. Whats that you say? You dont THINK so? Well, hey, guess what -- we dont think so either!

6. Finally, we love France. Yes, they have pulled some royal screw-ups. Yes, some of them can pretty damn annoying. But have you forgotten we wouldnt even have this country known as America if it werent 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 cant 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 Im guessing there arent 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 doesnt 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 years election. Of course, thats still a long ways away, so well 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 youll 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
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-- Handle so, dass die Maxime deines Willens
jederzeit zugleich als Prinzip
einer allgemeinen Gesetzgebung
gelten könne. --
(Immanuel Kant)