Katrina
Hitchens hits the nail on the head as per usual, here.HITCHENS: "Absolutely. It's one of the two or three best-known risks to the United States, is that the levees protecting New Orleans could break. I know that and I live in Washington. It's also, I'm afraid to say, the only thing the President has said about this that anyone can remember. I mean, he didn't get there - it isn't that they didn't fly to the city beforehand, which he could easily have done on that kind of warning, and say, "Look, I'm the President of the United States, we can't lose or even risk losing one of our great historic cities. I have come to make sure that all the state and city officials have got everything they could possibly want in advance."
"For example, a few piles of bottled water wouldn't have come amiss if there's going to be suddenly too much water but none of it drinkable. Elementary things like that. He didn't do that. Then he did a fly-by from his holiday retreat, and then he got there too late and then he said something completely idiotic. So I really can't see there is any forgiveness for that. And remember also, that he did interrupt his holiday not very long ago to pay attention to something that was none of his business at all as President. Namely, the alleged living condition of an actually dead woman named Terri Schiavo..."
Likewise, heres a typically eloquent rebuttle to those who feel think New Orleans would still be bone dry if we hadnt gone into Iraq.
"...George Bush has already paid, as he should, a weighty political price for his literally fatal insouciance. What I cannot understand is why the people of Baghdad and Basra should be punished for a meteorological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. We should get out and leave them to their own devices. We need the stuff at home, goddamn it. This has all the charm and beauty of John Kerry saying that we ought not to be opening firehouses in Baghdad while closing them in the United States. It also has all the easy appeal of a zero-sum, provincial, isolationist mentality."
...A scuttle from Iraq or from Afghanistan (where the Kabul-Kandahar highway also took a lot of time and equipment and manpower to build) would add to the number of stricken and broken cities in the world, and not reduce it. If liberalism and humanitarianism do not mean internationalism, they mean precisely nothing. Shame on those who try to turn the needy and the victims against each other."
meanwhile, former First Lady Barb Bush has been quoted as saying about the poor and now homeless victims of Katrina "so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them."
shes a fucking retard isnt she!
you can hear her words on this audio clip
posted by Alexander Try @ 2:40 pm
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Where did you read the quote from Barb Bush?
I want to make a link to it in my blog.
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/bb.mp3
- u can hear the quote here
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054719
- and the story can be found here
actually - ill just update the post with the links
Unbelievable!
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