elef Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 Hi, swedish text-TV news again - earlier Bush declined under hand offers to help as the US had resources to take care the disaster. Now he has officially asked for help and more than 20 countries (Canada and Sweden are 2) have already declared they will send help. elef SVT in Swedish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfinkz Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 "--incompetent, arrogant leadership!" _______________________________ Ironic that the day the levees broke, our leader, (who already admitted this year that maybe Saddam wasn't behind 9/11, perhaps he was wrong about WMD and there could be something to global warming after all) was in San Diego, after a five-week vacation, comparing the Iraq war to WWII and himself to FDR, who launched the WPA, the greatest public works effort in our history. Despite a once-respected FEMA, before it was absorbed by Bush's bloated Homeland Security, warning in early 2001, shortly after his inaguration, that flooding from a hurricane in the Big Easy was among the greatest threats we faced (in addition to a terrorist attack in NYC), Shrub has since cut funding to the N.O. Army Corps of Engineers for flood control by over half to help finance his war as well as enabling his developer contributors who helped elect him to pave the wetlands. Today he smirked, "No one saw it coming." (From my front window, here in our richest state, instead of Mississippi and Louisiana, our poorest, I can see schoolhouses, libraries and firehouses shuttered because of budget cuts and cars snaking in queues around the homeless to pay escalating prices for dwindling supplies of gasoline). Amazing he is determined to bring freedom to Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds at any cost in a divisive Iraq while those unfortunate residents captured in despair on the telly were left behind long before Katrina rolled into town, lacking, in these United States, even the wherewithal to get above sea level. The comparison to tsunami victims is unfair because they are more resilent and personally responsible, whereas the only opportunities for these Gulf Coast folks seems to be enlisting in the military, another bitter irony. I'm sure Al-Qaidda is taking notes on the lack of response as our National Guard has been snookered, unlike their commander-in-chief's experience, into multiple Iraqi tours and is otherwise unavailable, as well as whatever armed forces is protecting the homefront abandoning today all rescue operations of the stranded thousands after a stray sniper bullet or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 packy said:If any of you have relatives or friends that live in this area of devastation, I will be more than glad to try to find out their status. I'm in the Panhandle of Florida and frequent Biloxi, Gulfport, and Mobile frequently. I too have friends in Biloxi and old Metairie (New Orleans). The http://www.nola.com site and especially the forums there are pretty good and have "I'm OK" and "Looking for" sections. No words on any of them tho'. If you hear, I am looking for info on anyone surnamed "Haines" in Biloxi or "Lew" in New Orleans I found these satellite photos helpful as I could see my friend's house (and saw that it was not as bad as it could have been for them): http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM Be aware that they are huge (4092 x 4092) pictures. Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I see Australia donated 10 Million$, at least something DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 How New Orleans Was Lost by Paul Craig Roberts Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war. There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against looting. The situation is the same in Mississippi. The National Guard and helicopters are off on a fool's mission in Iraq. The National Guard is in Iraq because fanatical neoconservatives in the Bush administration were determined to invade the Middle East and because incompetent Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld refused to listen to the generals, who told him there were not enough regular troops available to do the job. After the invasion, the arrogant Rumsfeld found out that the generals were right. The National Guard was called up to fill in the gaping gaps. Now the Guardsmen, trapped in the Iraqi quagmire, are watching on TV the families they left behind trapped by rising waters and wondering if the floating bodies are family members. None know where their dislocated families are, but, shades of Fallujah, they do see their destroyed homes. The mayor of New Orleans was counting on helicopters to put in place massive sandbags to repair the levee. However, someone called the few helicopters away to rescue people from rooftops. The rising water overwhelmed the massive pumping stations, and New Orleans disappeared under deep water. What a terrible casualty of the Iraqi war ? one of our oldest and most beautiful cities, a famous city, a historic city. Distracted by its phony war on terrorism, the U.S. government had made no preparations in the event Hurricane Katrina brought catastrophe to New Orleans. No contingency plan existed. Only now after the disaster are FEMA and the Corps of Engineers trying to assemble the material and equipment to save New Orleans from the fate of Atlantis. Even worse, articles in the New Orleans Times-Picayune and public statements by emergency management chiefs in New Orleans make it clear that the Bush administration slashed the funding for the Corps of Engineers' projects to strengthen and raise the New Orleans levees and diverted the money to the Iraq war. Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, told the New Orleans Times-Picayune (June 8, 2004): "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." Why can't the U.S. government focus on America's needs and leave other countries alone? Why are American troops in Iraq instead of protecting our own borders from a mass invasion by illegal immigrants? Why are American helicopters blowing up Iraqi homes instead of saving American homes in New Orleans? How can the Bush administration be so incompetent as to expose Americans at home to dire risks by exhausting American resources in foolish foreign adventures? What kind of "homeland security" is this? All Bush has achieved by invading Iraq is to kill and wound thousands of people while destroying America's reputation. The only beneficiaries are oil companies capitalizing on a good excuse to jack up the price of gasoline and Osama bin Laden's recruitment. What we have is a Republican war for oil company profits while New Orleans sinks beneath the waters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man at Work Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I am amazed, that nobody mentioned the firing on helicopters, the rapes, the violence, the plunderings going on In Gods own Country. At first I did not believe the news, when I heard them, but sunce CNN just showed a big piece of it..... WHere has this great country gone too???? MaW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 Also we have sent a disaster recovery team of 26... PM said send more if needed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packy Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Torneyboy said:Also we have sent a disaster recovery team of 26... PM said send more if needed... From what I have seen on National as well as local news alerts, the recovery team will be hassled by Police wanting more time to loot, Militants wanting more to die by firing on copters, and frustrated by typical American Government Red tape, and this comes from a local. This is one time when I have to say, I'm not proud to be part of this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Major Ray Nagin, now that is how an elected representative is supposed to stand up for the people who put their trust in you to be their elected representative and a route to heard where it matters. He may have the most shortlived, but also most famous political career in all of US History (for an outsider like ) probably not only the first positive I have heard to come out of this disaster, but probably the first time I have seen on Global News the voice of disconsent that has been kept suppressed for far too long The questions he was asking the world on CNN, are the same questions I have been asking myself and anyone who cares to listen. (Thats all on the Topic ... I tend to stay out of political debate) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonepony Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Man at Work said:WHere has this great country gone too????MaW Yes, MW the action of a few during the past few days is absolutely despicable. This definitely is not Americas brightest moment. Watch how this country comes together over the next year or two, that?s where our greatness should be judged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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