Michael Moore has written an open letter to General Wesley Clark, who is standing for the Democratic nomination in 2004. Moore admires the General's integrity, but moreover touches on the plausibility of a Clark campaign against Bush — a genuine military man who opposes war going up against a deserting, lying coward ("The General vs. the Texas Air National Guard deserter! I want to see that debate, and I know who the winner is going to be.") who uses war and punishing tax cuts to engineer massive transfers of wealth to his cronies who feed from the public trough:
1. You oppose the PATRIOT Act and would fight the expansion of its powers.
2. You are firmly pro-choice.
3. You filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan's affirmative action case.
4. You would get rid of the Bush tax "cut" and make the rich pay their fair share.
5. You respect the views of our allies and want to work with them and with the rest of the international community.
6. And you oppose war. You have said that war should always be the "last resort" and that it is military men such as yourself who are the most for peace because it is YOU and your soldiers who have to do the dying. You find something unsettling about a commander in chief who dons a flight suit and pretends to be Top Gun, a stunt that dishonored those who have died in that flight suit in the service of their country.
