Excellent letter, I can only hope that President Obama reads it-! On Nov 30, 7:57 am, "Bill Johnson " <[email protected]> wrote: > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Moore <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:30:48 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore > > An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore > Monday, November 30th, 2009 > Dear President Obama, > Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point > tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather > than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. > Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing you could > do -- destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. With > just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who > were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach > them what they've always heard is true -- that all politicians are alike. I > simply can't believe you're about to do what they say you are going to do. > Please say it isn't so. > It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a > civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other > way around. That's the way General Washington insisted it must be. That's > what President Truman told General MacArthur when MacArthur wanted to invade > China. "You're fired!," said Truman, and that was that. And you should have > fired Gen. McChrystal when he went to the press to preempt you, telling the > press what YOU had to do. Let me be blunt: We love our kids in the armed > services, but we f*#&in' hate these generals, from Westmoreland in Vietnam > to, yes, even Colin Powell for lying to the UN with his made-up drawings of > WMD (he has since sought redemption). > So now you feel backed into a corner. 30 years ago this past Thursday > (Thanksgiving) the Soviet generals had a cool idea -- "Let's invade > Afghanistan!" Well, that turned out to be the final nail in the USSR coffin. > There's a reason they don't call Afghanistan the "Garden State" (though they > probably should, seeing how the corrupt President Karzai, whom we back, has > his brother in the heroin trade > <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html> raising > poppies). Afghanistan's nickname is the "Graveyard of Empires." If you don't > believe it, give the British a call. I'd have you call Genghis Khan but I > lost his number. I do have Gorbachev's number though. > It's<http://www.greencrossinternational.net/contact-us> . I'm sure he could > give you an earful about the historic blunder > <http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/gorbachev-obama-prepare...> > you're about to commit. > With our economic collapse still in full swing and our precious young men > and women being sacrificed on the altar of arrogance and greed, the breakdown > of this great civilization we call America will head, full throttle, into > oblivion if you become the "war president." Empires never think the end is > near, until the end is here. Empires think that more evil will force the > heathens to toe the line -- and yet it never works. The heathens usually tear > them to shreds. > Choose carefully, President Obama. You of all people know that it doesn't > have to be this way. You still have a few hours to listen to your heart, and > your own clear thinking. You know that nothing good can come from sending > more troops halfway around the world to a place neither you nor they > understand, to achieve an objective that neither you nor they understand, in > a country that does not want us there. You can feel it in your bones. > I know you know that there are LESS than a hundred al-Qaeda left in > Afghanistan! A hundred thousand troops trying to crush a hundred guys living > in caves? Are you serious? Have you drunk Bush's Kool-Aid? I refuse to > believe it. > Your potential decision to expand the war (while saying that you're doing it > so you can "end the war") will do more to set your legacy in stone than any > of the great things you've said and done in your first year. One more > throwing a bone from you to the Republicans and the coalition of the hopeful > and the hopeless may be gone -- and this nation will be back in the hands of > the haters quicker than you can shout "tea bag!" > Choose carefully, Mr. President. Your corporate backers are going to abandon > you as soon as it is clear you are a one-term president and that the nation > will be safely back in the hands of the usual idiots who do their bidding. > That could be Wednesday morning. > We the people still love you. We the people still have a sliver of hope. But > we the people can't take it anymore. We can't take your caving in, over and > over, when we elected you by a big, wide margin of millions to get in there > and get the job done. What part of "landslide victory" don't you understand? > Don't be deceived into thinking that sending a few more troops into > Afghanistan will make a difference, or earn you the respect of the haters. > They will not stop until this country is torn asunder and every last dollar > is extracted from the poor and soon-to-be poor. You could send a million > troops over there and the crazy Right still wouldn't be happy. You would > still be the victim of their incessant venom on hate radio and television > because no matter what you do, you can't change the one thing about yourself > that sends them over the edge. > The haters were not the ones who elected you, and they can't be won over by > abandoning the rest of us. > President Obama, it's time to come home. Ask your neighbors in Chicago and > the parents of the young men and women doing the fighting and dying if they > want more billions and more troops sent to Afghanistan. Do you think they > will say, "No, we don't need health care, we don't need jobs, we don't need > homes. You go on ahead, Mr. President, and send our wealth and our sons and > daughters overseas, 'cause we don't need them, either." > What would Martin Luther King, Jr. do? What would your grandmother do? Not > send more poor people to kill other poor people who pose no threat to them, > that's what they'd do. Not spend billions and trillions to wage war while > American children are sleeping on the streets and standing in bread lines. > All of us that voted and prayed for you and cried the night of your victory > have endured an Orwellian hell of eight years of crimes committed in our > name: torture, rendition, suspension of the bill of rights, invading nations > who had not attacked us, blowing up neighborhoods that Saddam "might" be in > (but never was), slaughtering wedding parties in Afghanistan. We watched as > hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were slaughtered and tens of > thousands of our brave young men and women were killed, maimed, or endured > mental anguish -- the full terror of which we scarcely know. > When we elected you we didn't expect miracles. We didn't even expect much > change. But we expected some. We thought you would stop the madness. Stop the > killing. Stop the insane idea that men with guns can reorganize a nation that > doesn't even function as a nation and never, ever has. > Stop, stop, stop! For the sake of the lives of young Americans and Afghan > civilians, stop. For the sake of your presidency, hope, and the future of our > nation, stop. For God's sake, stop. > Tonight we still have hope. > Tomorrow, we shall see. The ball is in your court. You DON'T have to do > this. You can be a profile in courage. You can be your mother's son. > We're counting on you. > Yours, > Michael Moore > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > MichaelMoore.com <http://www.michaelmoore.com/> > P.S. There's still time to have your voice heard. 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