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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:05:19 GMT, Peter Boyd
<pbyd16@hotmail.com> wrote:

  What???  Bush doesn't own a radio or tv???  The news
had wall to wall coverage,  with maps and newsfeed
coming in even at the height of the storm.  Any reason
Bush couldn't have had an aide bring in a radio and
turn it on?  Couldn't have an aide watch tv and report
to him what was going on?  The news had no
communications problems,  wonder why Homeland Security
and FEMA didn't look in to their communications
systems?

  While Bush spent the day clearing brush from his
ranch,  people were dying of thirst and heat in a
Stadium only a few hundred miles away.  FEMA,  who had
assumed control of the operational area,  merely
contented itself with turning away "unqualified"
people,  professing a desire to help and even the U.S.
NAVY was considered unqualified to render assistance,
or prevented from doing so "until FEMA" COULD BE
CERTAIN IT WAS READY!!!!  

  People died for no other earthly reason than that the
emergency operations were led by unqualified,
incompetent people elevated to positions of authority
without concern for their ability to perform in an
emergency.  The Bush administration has demonstrated
it's utter lack of concern for the welfare of this
nations citizentry.  It's inability to gather critical
information from a wide variety of available sources,
and a studied ability to remain ignorant of impending
and/or on-going crisis.  

  In short Bush is manning a gov't that is even more
deadly to our lives than either natural disasters or
terrorists.  Why there are people attempting to defend
such attrocious misconduct, is beyond all human
comprehension,  yet they are!

  Obwon
>
>
>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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  Liars share with those they deceive 
  the desire not to be deceived.
                        --Sissela Bok
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