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Obwon wrote:

>   Yeah,  I know that if I was President, and saw the
> mess America was watching on tv,  I'd have gotten on
> the phone and said;  "what do you need, what can I do?"
> Then I'd have gotten up and done it.  If only he'd
> cared enough,  he could have placed calls into NO City
> Hall and asked a few questions.  Maybe he'd have
> learned just how many people were in the SuperDome,
> after all it was no state secret, huh?

The president, long reluctant to fire subordinates, came to a belated recognition
that his administration was in trouble for the way it had dealt with the
disaster, many of his supporters say. One moment of realization occurred on
Thursday of last week when an aide carried a news agency report from New Orleans
into the Oval Office for him to see.

The report was about the evacuees at the convention center, some dying and some
already dead. Mr. Bush had been briefed that morning by his homeland security
secretary, Michael Chertoff, who was getting much of his information from Mr.
Brown and was not aware of what was occurring there. The news account was the
first that the president and his top advisers had heard not only of the
conditions at the convention center but even that there were people there at all.

"He's not a screamer," a senior aide said of the president. But Mr. Bush, angry,
directed the White House chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., to find out what was
going on.

"The frustration throughout the week was getting good, reliable information,"
said the aide, who demanded anonymity so as not to be identified in disclosing
inner workings of the White House. "Getting truth on the ground in New Orleans
was very difficult."


>   Bush didn't bother to call anyone,  nor did his
> appointee's call or ask anyone what was happening to
> people in the path of a storm they knew was coming
> ashore.   Only after the cameras began showing people
> elsewheres dissatisfied with the emergency responses,
> and one woman curse Condi as she exited a play she was
> enjoying to go shopping.   Only then did Bush get a
> clue that he just might have some responsibilities he
> hadn't discharged.
>
>    Not that he bother to discharge them,  what he did
> instead was go for the photo opts and got in the way of
> the emergency crews trying to get on with their life
> saving work.  Or don't you remember Bill Clinton the
> Great???  He didn't go into stricken areas because he
> believed that by doing so he'd distract the people from
> their lifesaving work.  He went in AFTER, the
> emergencies works had been accomplished.  Not Bush the
> lessor!
>
>   Obwon
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>   Liars share with those they deceive
>   the desire not to be deceived.
>                         --Sissela Bok
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