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[Editor: ignore=off]Why this is all Bush's fault, and then the blame needs to roll downhill. no scapegoats here.
What happened. (not a question)
let's look at the facts. Just the facts.
As Katrina headed toward the gulf coastline after killing nine people in Fla. on Aug 25, Bush chose to go ahead with his vacation itinerary anyway. He made this decision even though FEMA's 2001 report "warned that a hurricane hitting New Orleans would be the deadliest of the three most likely catastrophes facing America" and that despite their warning the Bush administration had cut the funds and stopped work on the levee system in New Orleans for the first time in more than 37 years...
http://tinyurl.com/cd5ws
...and knowing that Katrina was a category 5 hurricane and that the Gov of LA Blanko had declared a state of emergency on 8/26....
http://tinyurl.com/9ce2l
...and Gov Blanko formally requested Fed assistance from Bush, Dept of Homeland Security on Sunday 8/28...
http://tinyurl.com/ajly7
...our President decided anyway to go on ahead with his vacation plans Monday, while Katrina was hammering the coast. ....
http://tinyurl.com/9qnt3
.... He is pictured here on the Whitehouse website, having cake at a country club Monday in celebration of John McCain's B'day, ...
http://tinyurl.com/88vfs
...and later on that evening "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld joined Bush in San Diego, watching the Padres fall 7-5 to division rival Arizona Monday night."...
http://tinyurl.com/dmkr8
( a few pics of Rumsfeld at the game here )
http://tinyurl.com/7dty8
http://tinyurl.com/dghnl
http://tinyurl.com/amhho
... Then on Tuesday, when everyone in the country woke up to terrible headlines in nearly every newspaper showing New Orleans flooding causing countless deaths and destruction,...
http://tinyurl.com/9vj6p
... Bush and Rumsfeld traveled on to a VJ Day event in CA to give a speech trying to make a comparison between WWII and his war in Iraq,....
http://tinyurl.com/e2uqz
(a few pics of Rummy, Bush, and Laura laughing, joking, smiling, just having a good ole time at the VJ Day event on Tues) http://tinyurl.com/8buw9
http://tinyurl.com/9as47
http://tinyurl.com/87che
http://tinyurl.com/dwy84
... knowing that at that very moment there are Americans drowning due to National Guard shortages because of it, ....
http://tinyurl.com/ad3xw
...and while at the VJ Day-Iraq promotion rally with his wife and Rumsfeld, as if to add insult to injury, or a more apropos simile, to add serial necrophilia to mass manslaughter, Bush is captured here smiling for a photo-op pretending like he knows how to play a guitar. The fact he can't do so was made obvious because the photographer caught country star Mark Wills before he managed to get out of the way from helping to place Bush's fingers in position..( Let's again remind ourselves that at this very moment, people are drowning. "Bush Strummed While America Drowned")...
http://tinyurl.com/dcmkn
....and despite all of the catastrophic events unfolding, and nations all over the world that were already offering their help, Bush let his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begin her vacation, going on a truly obscene shoe shopping spree, and taking in a Wednesday night showing of “Spamalot!," the Monty Python musical, in NY, where she was not well received......
http://tinyurl.com/9lwvt
.....and as a result of all of this absolutely criminal negligence, “the paperwork from Washington, allowing the troops to deploy, didn't come until Thursday”.
http://tinyurl.com/7sr5n
Are we really going to let Bushco spin their way out of this???
Without digging any deeper, we have flagrant incompetence and dereliction of duty that has resulted in more deaths than Osama dreams about.
How is right now not the time to point fingers???
Fact, we are not safe with this admin in office.
The only better time to point fingers would have been before this happened.
Wrong Bendito,
President Bush as commander in Chief put himself in charge of coodinating all disaster relief by declaring a state of emergency in LA, on August 27. THAT'S WHAT A STATE OF EMERGENCY MEANS. Therefore Bush as the commander in chief is ultimately responsible for this holocaust, by his own legal written declaration.
The only question left to be decided is whether the Katrina show was the result of INCOMPETENCE or MALICE. Either way its time for the president to resign.
The body count is already so high the administration has gone into full coverup mode of the number of dead.
How can you sleep at night Bendito?
See Tom Tomorrow citing of Chris Floyd for details.
http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2005_09_04.html#002439
Posted by patience at September 6, 2005 10:46 PMDid CBS accidently let some truth slip through
their "60 minute" show on Sunday?
In an interview with a New Orleans official in
charge of maintaing the levees (I'm sorry I dont
remember his official title or name)he stated that the levee did not actually break..it was the
flood wall. When asked how it could have been prevented he said that if they had started repairing the flood walls 20 years ago(at a cost of billions) they might
have withstood a category 4 storm like Katrina.
Every news report Ive heard since then though
has said the levees broke so maybe CBS has become
a part of the right wing conspiracy.
At any rate, I can sleep easier tonight knowing
that Sean Penn and Celine Dion have officially
stated that the administration did not do enough.
From a letter by Michael Moore:
There is much to be said and done about the manmade annihilation of New Orleans, caused NOT by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years. Do not listen to anyone who says we can discuss all this later. No, we can't. Our country is in an immediate state of vulnerability. More hurricanes, wars, and other disasters are on the way, and a lazy bunch of self-satisfied lunatics are still running the show.
Cindy Sheehan, the brave woman who dared to challenge Mr. Bush at his summer home, has now sent her Camp Casey from in front of Bush's ranch to the outskirts of New Orleans. The Veterans for Peace have taken all the equipment and staff of volunteers and set up camp in Covington, Louisiana, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. They are accepting materials and personally distributing them to those in need.
This is where we come in. We need to ship supplies to them immediately. Today they need the following:
Paper plates, paper towels, toilet paper, baby diapers, baby wipes, baby formula, Pedialyte, baby items in general, powder, lotion, handy wipes, sterile gloves, electrolytes, LARGE cans of veggies, school supplies, and anything else to lift people's spirits.
Go to http://www.vfproadtrips.org/
Posted by Judith at September 7, 2005 02:46 AMCost of rebuilding New Orleans after long predicted hurricane: $150 billion and counting.
Cost of completing ongoing levy improvement program: $250 million.
Yep, they're quite a competent managerial "team".
These inconceivable fuck-ups.
Posted by euzoius at September 7, 2005 06:03 AMI would like to know why I and so many other physicians told to stay home when they offered
to provide medical care for victims of Hurricane Katrina?
Like most Americans, I watched in horror I also felt helpless, guilty, and ashamed at what I saw. By Wednesday, I knew – didn’t the President know? -- that this was the worst disaster in American history? I also knew that every possible resource should be summoned immediately if not sooner.
I wanted to help. My First call was to SORT (Special Operations Response Team), because it is primarily a medical team based in my hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. And I was told that the SORT team had already been deployed and I could not help, that I would need six months of special training. I argued, “But I am a surgeon, and those people need all the help they can get now. They suggested I call the Red Cross.
When I called the Red Cross I told them that I would do anything that would help. They said 50 Winston-Salem volunteers had already been sent and that at least another 50 had already expressed a desire to go. The Red Cross response was totally unbelievable they told me the next training class is next week on September 7th.. I told her “Issues of credentialing and red tape have to be thrown out in this case; those people need our help and they need it now.
I argued and pleaded with officials; I had travel arrangements made! When I was finally able to reach the Regional Director of the Red Cross in Raleigh, I was informed that Red Cross is not involved in medical care and it was suggested that she call FEMA. I never got through to FEMA though if I tried once, I tried a hundred times through a variety of numbers. I spent 2 days on the phone.”
Finally I called my Senator’s office, Senator Richard Burr, NC. I asked if his office could find out where I could be of help and how I would go about it. I as given a telephone number for an emergency response group in Washington. I never got through to them. And I never heard back from FEMA.
I am very ashamed that Americans could suffer and die on American soil while physicians trying to get to them were told to stay home. I and many of my colleagues in the medical profession across the nation were told over and over again stay home. At a time of national disaster with so many lives at stake, how is it possible that medical professionals were rebuffed by credentialing, red tape and poor communication issues from several different emergency response groups? I am amazed, I am angry and I am sad.
The red tape response the medical community received should make all of us angry and asking for answers. How many people have died because they would not let us go? Yes, we need to fix the levies and rebuild New Orleans, because that is who we are. But more importantly we need to look each other in the eye and ask, “Where did we go wrong?” because that is also who we are.
Jamie Koufman, M.D., F.A.C.S., Director
Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders
of Wake Forest University
Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology)
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Thanks for trying, Doc.
Posted by pessimist at September 7, 2005 08:20 AM