Bush eats cake while American citizens die...

[DudeAsInCool]

FORMER CLINTON ADVISOR

"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"

By Sidney Blumenthal

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/internatio...,372455,00.html

[Redneck4sure]

I think I will have a liberal fucking helping..

I hope you choke on it.

[Kooperman]

In New Orleans people are dropping...In New York Condi Rice is shopping...

http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/200...557635057638481

[Wolfie]

I bet if they could blame the hurricane on al-quada he would have been over it. :bigsmile:

[KiwiCoromandel]

I bet if they could blame the hurricane on al-quada he would have been over it.  :bigsmile:

how about this one...... :)

'Cowboy' Bush failed in Katrina evacuation - Chavez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the American government, called President George W Bush a "cowboy" who had failed to manage the Hurricane Katrina disaster and evacuate victims.

"That government had no evacuation plan, it is incredible, the first power in the world that is so involved in Iraq. . . and left its own population adrift," Chavez said in a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television.

His remarks came as United States authorities evacuated thousands of people from New Orleans and after Bush said it would take years to recover from flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The death toll on Wednesday reached at least 200 in what Bush called the country's worst natural disaster.

"That man, the king of vacations. . . the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but, you have to flee, and didn't say how. . . that cowboy, the cowboy mentality," said Chavez, chuckling in a reference to Bush without naming him directly.

Chavez, an outspoken populist who calls Cuba's Fidel Castro an ally, often lambastes what he calls the US's failed imperialist policies. He says the Bush administration is trying to assassinate him and calls Bush "Mr Danger."

The two governments frequently clash though the US is the top oil client of Venezuela, the world's No 5 crude exporter.

The US portrays Chavez as a menace who uses Venezuelan oil wealth to fund anti-democratic groups.

Applauded by supporters for his self-proclaimed socialist revolution to fight poverty, Chavez has offered to send cheap fuel, humanitarian aid and relief workers to the disaster area.

Venezuelan state oil firm PDVSA has offered $US1 million from its US-based refinery unit Citgo for relief efforts.

source:AP

[Excrement_Cranium]

In New Orleans people are dropping...In New York Condi Rice is shopping...

http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/200...557635057638481

Shit, for a second I thought that was a cross-dresser.

[slum_goddess]

yep, condi went shopping (why not? she's sec'ty of FOREIGN relations) and the dipshit preznit wasn't gonna say another word until the pressure began. the footage is awful...dead people in wheelchairs, babies crying and dying, the heat, what must be the horrible stench of sewage &c in the streets, no drinking water, no food, thousands of prisoners chained under highway bridges..i can't say how bad i eel about this.

i almost fainted when they trotted out clinton, only 3 days after being blamed for 9/11.

i really hope this shit wakes up the deluded who have nothing to gain from republicans but voted for them anyway. 90,000 square miles destroyed (bigger than the UK), all those people homeless...this shit could've been prevented but Noooooooo. goddamn them to hell.

[Kooperman]

i almost fainted when they trotted out clinton, only 3 days after being blamed for 9/11.

Especially when Clinton parroted Bush's spin that "nobody suspected the levee would break"..... :reallymad:

[slum_goddess]

Koop, i dint hear that (a good thing cause i was already way pissed).

[DudeAsInCool]

this shit could've been prevented but Noooooooo. goddamn them to hell.

Here's a more accurate assessment for who to assess the blame:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050901/D8CBNMA88.html

[DudeAsInCool]

September 2, 2005

BEGGING THE QUESTION

Today, the President said that the “results” of the hurricane relief efforts thus far are “unacceptable.”

Assignment for the press whores:

If the President actually believes that, your job is to ask him and Scott McLellan WHO the President is going to FIRE over this!?!

And to keep asking them until they give you a straight answer.

Oh, and memo to the Democrats: You should be calling for the heads of Michael Chertoff and FEMA Director Brown.

Get up off your dead asses and start leading.

By Hesiod   7:01 am     Media critique, Big Media, Bush Appointees

http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/20...g-the-question/

[DudeAsInCool]

Diane Sawyer Interviews the President

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...5041100879.html

[Excrement_Cranium]

yep, condi went shopping (why not? she's sec'ty of FOREIGN relations) and the dipshit preznit wasn't gonna say another word until the pressure began. the footage is awful...dead people in wheelchairs, babies crying and dying, the heat, what must be the horrible stench of sewage &c in the streets, no drinking water, no food, thousands of prisoners chained under highway bridges..i can't say how bad i eel about this.

i almost fainted when they trotted out clinton, only 3 days after being blamed for 9/11.

i really hope this shit wakes up the deluded who have nothing to gain from republicans but voted for them anyway. 90,000 square miles destroyed (bigger than the UK), all those people homeless...this shit could've been prevented but Noooooooo. goddamn them to hell.

SO...... she would be one of the people to help drum up all the foriegn aide being offered?

Nah, I need new heels.

[slum_goddess]

Assignment for the press whores:

If the President actually believes that, your job is to ask him and Scott McLellan WHO the President is going to FIRE over this!?!

And to keep asking them until they give you a straight answer.

Oh, and memo to the Democrats: You should be calling for the heads of Michael Chertoff and FEMA Director Brown.

Get up off your dead asses and start leading.

i'm not holding my breath for any of that shit to happen. the preznit will prolly give brown and chertoff medals or something and the democrats will be too chickenshit to step up, as usual. fuckers.

[rainbowdemon]

These assholes are not trapped on rooftops. Nor are any of their friends or family being broiled alive in a football stadium. So, what do they care?

:shootin:

[Kooperman]

Op-Ed Columnist

United States of Shame

By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: September 3, 2005

Stuff happens.

And when you combine limited government with incompetent government, lethal stuff happens.

America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning. But this time it's happening in America.

W. drove his budget-cutting Chevy to the levee, and it wasn't dry. Bye, bye, American lives. "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees," he told Diane Sawyer.

Shirt-sleeves rolled up, W. finally landed in Hell yesterday and chuckled about his wild boozing days in "the great city" of N'Awlins. He was clearly moved. "You know, I'm going to fly out of here in a minute," he said on the runway at the New Orleans International Airport, "but I want you to know that I'm not going to forget what I've seen." Out of the cameras' range, and avoided by W., was a convoy of thousands of sick and dying people, some sprawled on the floor or dumped on baggage carousels at a makeshift M*A*S*H unit inside the terminal.

Why does this self-styled "can do" president always lapse into such lame "who could have known?" excuses.

Who on earth could have known that Osama bin Laden wanted to attack us by flying planes into buildings? Any official who bothered to read the trellis of pre-9/11 intelligence briefs.

Who on earth could have known that an American invasion of Iraq would spawn a brutal insurgency, terrorist recruiting boom and possible civil war? Any official who bothered to read the C.I.A.'s prewar reports.

Who on earth could have known that New Orleans's sinking levees were at risk from a strong hurricane? Anybody who bothered to read the endless warnings over the years about the Big Easy's uneasy fishbowl.

In June 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, fretted to The Times-Picayune in New Orleans: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."

Not only was the money depleted by the Bush folly in Iraq; 30 percent of the National Guard and about half its equipment are in Iraq.

Ron Fournier of The Associated Press reported that the Army Corps of Engineers asked for $105 million for hurricane and flood programs in New Orleans last year. The White House carved it to about $40 million. But President Bush and Congress agreed to a $286.4 billion pork-filled highway bill with 6,000 pet projects, including a $231 million bridge for a small, uninhabited Alaskan island.

Just last year, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials practiced how they would respond to a fake hurricane that caused floods and stranded New Orleans residents. Imagine the feeble FEMA's response to Katrina if they had not prepared.

Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA - a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association - admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center.

Was he sacked instantly? No, our tone-deaf president hailed him in Mobile, Ala., yesterday: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

It would be one thing if President Bush and his inner circle - Dick Cheney was vacationing in Wyoming; Condi Rice was shoe shopping at Ferragamo's on Fifth Avenue and attended "Spamalot" before bloggers chased her back to Washington; and Andy Card was off in Maine - lacked empathy but could get the job done. But it is a chilling lack of empathy combined with a stunning lack of efficiency that could make this administration implode.

When the president and vice president rashly shook off our allies and our respect for international law to pursue a war built on lies, when they sanctioned torture, they shook the faith of the world in American ideals.

When they were deaf for so long to the horrific misery and cries for help of the victims in New Orleans - most of them poor and black, like those stuck at the back of the evacuation line yesterday while 700 guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel were bused out first - they shook the faith of all Americans in American ideals. And made us ashamed.

Who are we if we can't take care of our own?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/opinion/03dowd.html

[slum_goddess]

Who are we if we can't take care of our own?

republicans?

[slum_goddess]

why does senator Landrieu hate amerika?

But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast - black and white, rich and poor, young annd old - deserve far better from their national government.'

from americablog

[CTC Command]

The US portrays Chavez as a menace who uses Venezuelan oil wealth to fund anti-democratic groups.

No, not the US. The current administration of the US. Which is currently funding (and gets funding from) more anti-democratic groups than Chavez could even imagine.

[DudeAsInCool]

Frank Rich on the poltical expedency of George W Bush and his lack of character:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rich.html