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Re: Mission Accomplished! Bush Declares Evacuation Victory

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From: VeggieBurger8
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:14
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Peter Boyd wrote:
> 
> Obwon 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?
> 
> 
> Not to worry.  Mr. Brown resigned.
> 
> From
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/national/nationalspecial/12cnd-fema.html?hp&ex=1126584000&en=4500396bdbcddf70&ei=5094&partner=homepage
> 
> 
> 
> Mr. Bush, surveying storm damage in Gulfport, Miss.,
> initially brushed aside reporters' questions about
> Mr. Brown's resignation.
> 
> "I was spending time with people," he said, referring to
> his tours of the devastated areas in New Orleans and
> elsewhere in the Gulf Coast region. "It was unbelievable.
> So, I can't comment on something that you may know
> more about than I do."
> 
> It's fun to speculate how people are going to
> react to that last quoted statement.
> 
> 
> 
> 
Probably the same way they react to all his quotes which are routinely 
taken out of context.  With smugness.
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