Michael Moore on George Bush's 'desertion'

Catholic New Times, Feb 29, 2004

NEW YORK -- Michael Moore has told President George Bush "Your 'desertion' didn't go away--and here's the reason why. You have sent countless numbers of our sons and daughters in the National Guard to their deaths in the last 11 months. You did this while misleading their parents and the nation with lies about weapons of mass destruction and scary phony Saddam ties to al Qaeda. You sent them off to a never-ending war so that your benefactors at Halliburton and the oil companies could line their pockets. And then you had the audacity to prance around in a soldier's uniform on an aircraft carrier proclaiming "Mission Accomplished"--while the cameras from your re-election campaign ad agency rolled.

That is what makes this whole business of your being AWOL so despicable, and makes the grief-stricken relatives want to turn away from you in disgust. Your skipping-out on your enlistment didn't matter in the 2000 election because we were not at war. Being stuck in a deadly, daily quagmire now in 2004 makes your military history-fiction and your fly-boy costume very relevant."