Dear Mr. President:
The tragedy unfolding along our Gulf Coast is overwhelming. I don't know where it ranks in the history of natural disasters in our nation, and I suppose that it really doesn't matter at all. Horror and heartbreak on this scale can't be assigned a relative number.
I know that you are in denial and I know that you will busy, very busy, in the weeks ahead.
I know that you are surrounded by dastardly sychophants who will help you resort to your usual defense of spin, lies, and emotional manipulation to try again to hoodwink your faith-based supporters. I know that your propoganda machine will trot out your tried-and-true hate generators of racism and classism to place the blame on the mostly black and mostly poor victims of the winds and water. Who can blame you. These things have worked for centuries and your team of heartless bastards has mastered them.
I know that your genetically inherited penchant for vengance will overcome the momentary fear that you and your team have probably felt in recent days when some of your own party's leaders have expressed doubts about your wisdom. I know that you and yours will administer pain in fierce, biblical lashes.
But now that Mother Nature has slapped you upside your arrogant, immature head, and in the hope that this slap has cleared, however briefly, the darkness of self-imposed willfull ignorance, I want to try to get just one clear thought through to your addled brain and all the way to the center of your powers of reason, if any still exist.
You said no one anticipated that the levees would fail. Well, you were wrong, Mr. President. Many people for many years anticipated just such an event. It was not a question of if, it was simply a question of when. Such a statement by the supposed leader of our nation is shockingly unforgivable. I can't imagine how you could honestly believe such a preposterous thing, but, on the extremely remote chance that you truly have been absorbed by video games since their invention I want to give you a friendly heads up.
While you may have missed it, many, many people for many, many years have anticipated that global warming is under way and, if it is unchecked, the consequences will be terrible for us all. So please accept this letter as official notice that global warming is, to borrow a phrase, "on the march."
Try to remember that you personally destroyed a state program for reducing automobile emissions in Texas when you first became governor. Remember that this plan had actually been passed by the state legislature -- In TEXAS for God's sake -- in TEXAS. Even a majority of Texas' legislators and the previous governor thought it was a good idea to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Try to remember that you personally destroyed the Kyoto Treaty when you became president. Most of the nations of the world thought it was a good idea to reduce greenhouse emissions.
The list of your assaults against the world's environment is long and disgusting and will cause history to view you as the leader of the end of the world. I don't know just who in the past has been acknowledged as the one who will destroy the world, but, for the moment at least, your name leads all the rest.
The last sentence of the last page of the last history book will read, "George W. Bush could have saved the world."
But even if that is not fearful enough, remember that there are angels who keep a list of names of those who are loved by the Lord. At the top of that list are the names of those who love their fellow men.
The angels also keep another list of names...
Very truly yours,
Hestal