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"Tim Campbell" <timcall@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Bush Declares Evacuation Victory -- Cindy Sheehan has left Crawford
>
>
> George W. Bush, who spent two days last week using military people as
> backdrops for his photo-ops in his war against weepy mothers, won the
> public relations battle that occupied him Tuesday and Wednesday. Cindy
> Sheehan surrendered to the high-priority blitz staged by the president
> who utilized triple the costs he had spent for saving New Orleans
> drowning citizens on the same Tuesday and Wednesday. Soldiers and
> sailors stood around on Tuesday-Wedneday instead of mobilizing to help
> anybody other than Bush himself.
>
    It was a State's rights issue you Liberal Gull.  Feds couldn't come in
until the Governor of LA asked for help.  Since the President had already
declared all the Gulf States a disaster area two days before the Hurricane
Struck, aid was immediately available.  LA Governor had 6,500 National Guard
at her disposal, but had only activated 2,000, but she still could have
asked for the Feds to come in immediately.  Up in Baton Rouge, she
hesitated.  So you come in here crying a river of State's rights all the
time, but this is one time, where State's rights, combined with a Governors
indecision, cost a lot of lives.  Plus, as I've said before, I'd never build
or live in an area under sea level; even if the levee's had been built to
Amsterdam specifications, it would not have stopped a tsunami.  Bad news
about rebuilding New Orleans, is what will happen if a tsunami, or the next
New Madrid Fault earthquake hits and shifts the flow of the Mississippi?  I
can understand people building below sea level in the days of the French
before they knew better; but how many more times will we have to bail them
out?  I'm not without compassion, but its sheer stupidity to keep rebuilding
a city that is below sea level and surround by the Gulf on one side, a lake
on the other, and the Mississippi River; talk about a triple threat!  People
saw this threat coming for decades, and no one was willing to say the
obvious that no one should be living in mass below sea level because it
wasn't politically popular.

          Mallard Fillmore
          Ducks@web.net