In the Crosshairs

Well this is just too rich to ignore. Michael Moore is offering the Obama his sage advice on military strategery. I was gonna compare that to me advising Mikey on film making, but I realized I actually make videos with a measurable level of expertise. Mikey has less than zero experience in war fighting. Anyhow Tally ho!

Dear President Obama,

Do you really want to be the new “war president”?

Of course he doesn’t Mikey, but the evil W invented this enemy that wants to take over the wingnut world and he is stuck until you can make a documentary proving that al Qaeda is a fictional, neocon, Zionist invention.

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.

True dat. Wow did I just agree with Michael Moore. (Cue lightning strikes)

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.

I realize it is kinda redundant to call you brain dead Mikey, but were you even marginally conscious during the campaign? Big O was running his mouth full time about how he was gonna personally go to Pakistan and ring bin Laden’s scrawny neck. He kept hammering W for ignoring the good war in Afghanistan and promised to kick the shit our of the Taliban. Seriously dude, over and over again. Put down the Krispy Kreme and watch any of his speeches. Here I’ll help you out.

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).

I don’t know if you have been paying attention Mikey, well actually your foolish blather proves you haven’t, but your guy O is the one who picked McChrystal and then announced in March he was sending more troops to implement “HIS” plan for A-Stan. And STFU about how you love these kids in the armed services, you don’t you big fat liar. You pity them like F John Kerry and you think they are victims who failed in life and ended up “Stuk in Irak”. We love our Generals ass clown, well most of them. And bad-mouthing McChrystal could be unhealthy, do you hear the whop whop of the black chopper blades?

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.

And obviously there is complete moral equivalence between the Soviets actions and ours. I mean I remember when the Afghans bombed the Kremlin and they rolled tanks in response.

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 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 + 41 22 789 1662. I’m sure he could give you an earful about the historic blunder you’re about to commit.

I think your buddy F John Kerry could help you out w/ contact info on Jenjis Khan.

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.

The altar of arrogance and greed? Just WTF do you think we are chasing in Afghanistan? At least when you and your ignorant fellow travelers talked about blood for oil, there was at least oil involved. Are we somehow now motivated to offer blood for piles of freakin’ rocks? And just for the record dumbass, the bad guys in A-Stan are the religious zealots and we are the heathen infidels. I swear to God you don’t even bother to learn the simple shit.

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.

Dude he is not listening to his bones or his heart. He is listening to that malevolent ballerina Rahm Emanuel and that slime Chicago snake oil salesman David Axelrod. It’s politics Mikey, it always has been. Obama doesn’t want to be a War President, but even more he doesn’t want to be a one term wonder who lost the war. And as far as no good coming from sending troops halfway around the world, why don’t you ask all of Europe and most of Asia how sending troops there in the 40’s worked out? Seriously dickhead, History? Heard of it?

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.

It only took 19 of the treacherous bastards to kill 3,000 on 9/11.

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!”

Just out of curiosity WTF are these great things he has done in his first year? I mean how hard is it to waste trillions of dollars, fail to create or save a single job, kowtow to foreign potentates, screw our allies and appease tyrants. Oh yeah I forgot, nationalize our auto industry and financial sectors and then try to do the same to our health care system. Come to think of it I guess I understand why you would like that.

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.

Corporate backers? FFS dude, union backers. I swear you can’t get anything right. And you have some nerve talking about the usual idiots taking back over when the current drivers of the clown car we call Congress are the thin-lipped, milquetoast, cream-in-the-coffee, cadaver Harry Reid and the House Harridan Nancy Pelosi. And last time I checked Joe Biden is one heart beat away from the Presidency. Joe Freakin’ Biden! Seriously Obama, you need to get a check up and eat some arugala. Stay healthy.

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?

I the people don’t love him and neither do any of the independents who bought the Hope hype. Now that we have seen the man in inaction, he has shown that his complete lack of accomplishments prior to taking office were totally justified.

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.

Extracting dollars from the poor, that is an interesting concept since the fucking poor don’t pay fucking taxes. Dammit Mikey, don’t you have anyone who can help you with the most basic facts. And that was a very subtle racist charge. In the midst of this deranged screed you didn’t want to dent your credibility by actually saying we are all racist? That’s actually funny.

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.”

They might say we don’t want terrorists driving planes into our skyscrapers too Mikey. They might say we don’t want the al Qaeda and Taliban nutbags getting their hands on the nukes in Pakistan. They might say they don’t want to live under sharia law.

What would Martin Luther King, Jr. do?

If he had it to do over again, he might duck. Now that’s funny and I’m gonna burn in Hell.

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.

I guess that’s fair, because most of the folks in the towers were fairly well off and even the folks working in the kitchens at least had jobs. But I think their families might say that the bastards we are killing in Afghanistan posed some kinda threat. Hey maybe if some of your buddies at the UAW weren’t making $50 an hour we could help out some of those hungry kids.

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.

I’m sure Orwell would fully agree that the free elections we hold every four years for President are completely comparable to the eternal Big Brother. I cried the night of his victory as well.

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.

How can you say you didn’t expect Change, it was on all the posters. Hell it was the most intellectual part of his ethereal platform. And for the record, the reorganizing of the nation is done by the civilians who come in after the men w/ guns clear out the wolves.

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
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. There’s still time to have your voice heard. Call the White House at 202-456-1111 or email the President.

I’m sure all those young Afghan girls you would simply assign to life in a potato sack without education and treated as chattel would appreciate your efforts Mikey, quite progressive of you.

All right that was fairly painful for me. I didn’t think his exercise in ignorance and naivete would ever end. I need to wash.

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